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WHT


2DFISTwo dimensional spectrograph [ Link ]
ACAMAuxiliary-port CAMera [ Link ]
AF2Automated Fibre Positioner [ Link ]
AG UnitCassegrain Acquisition and Guidance Unit [ Link ]
AOLIAdaptive Optics Lucky Imager [ Link ]
ARNICAInfrared camera [ Link ]
AUXAuxiliary Port Imaging Camera [ Link ]
CANARYOn-Sky MOAO demonstrator [ Link ]
CIRPASSThe Cambridge Infrared PAnoramic Survey Spectrograph [ Link ]
CIRSICambridge Infra Red Survey Instrument [ Link ]
CRNGCosmic Random Number Generator [ Link ]
DIPThe Durham Imaging Polarimeter [ Link ]
DIPOL2Double Image high precision POLarimeter [ Link ]
ELECTRAEnhanced Light Efficiency Cophasing Telescope Resolution Actuator [ Link ]
EXPOExtreme Polarimeter [ Link ]
FASTInfra-red Imaging Fabry-Perot Camera [ Link ]
FASTCAMFast Camera [ Link ]
FLEXFiber Linked Experimental [ Link ]
FOS2Faint Object Spectrograph [ Link ]
GASPGalway Astronomical Stokes Polarimeter [ Link ]
GHAFASGalaxy Halpha Fabry-Perot System [ Link ]
GHRILGround-based High Resolution Laboratory [ Link ]
GISCGalway Image Sharpening Camera [ Link ]
GLASGround-layer Laser Adaptive optics System [ Link ]
GRACEGRound based Adaptive optics Controlled Environment [ Link ]
HEXAFLEXFiber spectrograph [ Link ]
HHCHitch-Hiker Camera [ Link ]
HHSHolographic High-Resolution Spectrograph [ Link ]
HiPERCAMA high-speed camera for the study of rapid variability in the Universe [ Link ]
INGRIDIsaac Newton Group Red Imaging Device [ Link ]
INTEGRALIntegral Spectrograph [ Link ]
IQUEYEHigh speed photon-counting photometer [ Link ]
ISISIntermediate dispersion Spectrograph and Imaging System [ Link ]
LAOTLeiden Adaptive Optics Testbed [ Link ]
LDSS2Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph [ Link ]
LEXILeiden Exoplanet Imager [ Link ]
LIRISLong Slit Intermediate-Resolution InfraRed Spectrograph [ Link ]
MARTINIMulti-Aperture Real Time Image Normalisation Instrument [ Link ]
MESManchester Echelle Spectrograph [ Link ]
NAOJCamNational Astronomical Observatory of Japan Camera [ Link ]
NAOMINasmyth Adaptive Optics for Multi-purpose Instrumentation [ Link ]
NAOMI+INGRIDNasmyth Adaptive Optics for Multi-purpose Instrumentation (NAOMI+INGRID) [ Link ]
NAOMI+OASISOptically Adaptive System for Imaging Spectroscopy [ Link ]
NAOMI+OSCAOptimized Stellar Coronograph for Adaptive optics [ Link ]
ORSOptical Resonance Spectrometer [ Link ]
PAUCAMPhysics of the Accelerating Universe Camera [ Link ]
PF-QHYPrime Focus QHY Camera [ Link ]
PFIPPrime Focus Imaging Platform [ Link ]
PLANETPOLHigh-sensitivity polarimeter [ Link ]
PNSThe Planetary Nebula Spectrograph [ Link ]
PWFSPyramid Wavefront Sensor [ Link ]
SAURONSpectrographic Areal Unit for Research on Optical Nebulae [ Link ]
SCAMSuperconducting Tunnel Junction (STJ) Camera [ Link ]
SLODARSLOpe Detection And Ranging [ Link ]
SPIFSStabilized speckle integral field spectroscopy demonstrator [ Link ]
TAURUS2Taylor Atherton Uariable-resolution Radial Uelocity System [ Link ]
TEIFUThousand Element Integral Field Unit [ Link ]
TRIFFIDPhotometer [ Link ]
UESUtrecht Echelle Spectrograph [ Link ]
ULTRACAMUltra-fast, triple-beam CCD camera [ Link ]
WEAVEWHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer [ Link ]
WHIRCAMWilliam Herschel Infra-Red Camera [ Link ]
WYFFOSWide-field Fibre Optic Spectrograph [ Link ]

INT


CIRSICambridge Infra Red Survey Instrument [ Link ]
DIPThe Durham Imaging Polarimeter [ Link ]
EXOhSPECEXOplanet high resolution SPECtrograph [ Link ]
FOS1Faint Object Spectrograph [ Link ]
HARPS3The Terra Hunting Experiment [ Link ]
IDSThe Intermediate Dispersion Spectrograph [ Link ]
LIAPLeicester Indium Antimonide Photometer [ Link ]
MESManchester Echelle Spectrograph [ Link ]
MOMIManchester Occulting Mask Imager [ Link ]
MPMunich Photometer [ Link ]
MUSICOSMulti-Site Continuous Spectroscopy spectropolarimeter [ Link ]
PFCPrime Focus Camera [ Link ]
PennypackerPennypacker Camera [ Link ]
STEREOSCIDARScintillation Detection And Ranging [ Link ]
Sodium ProfilerSodium Profiler [ Link ]
TAURUS1Fabry-Perot spectrograph and imager [ Link ]
TTPTexas-Tromso Photometer [ Link ]
WFCWide-Field Camera [ Link ]

JKT


CUTESCIDARAn Automatically Controlled SCIDAR Instrument for the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope [ Link ]
JAGJKT Acquisition and Guidance Unit [ Link ]
JKTCCDCCD Camera [ Link ]
MPFMulti-purpose Photometer [ Link ]
PPPeople´s Photometer [ Link ]
QUBESQueen´s University Belfast Echelle Spectrograph [ Link ]
RBSRichardson-Brearley Spectrograph [ Link ]
RSReticon Spectrometer [ Link ]
WPCWide-field Photographic Camera [ Link ]

Others


COCAMCometary camera [ Link ]


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