Instrumentation for Ground-based Optical Astronomy

SESSION 1: High Resolution Spectrographs.- to the Session on High Resolution Spectrographs.- Aspects of the Optical Design of the AAT and WHT Echelle Spectrographs.- Overall Philosophy of the Echelle Spectrographs for the Anglo Australian Telescope and William Herschel Telescope.- The Lick Observatory Hamilton Echelle Spectrometer.- Optical Design of the ARC Echelle Spectrometer.- A Coudé Echelle Spectrograph with a Large Mosaic Grating but with Small Corrector Lenses.- A New High-Resolution CCD Spectrometer for the McDonald Observatory 2.7-Meter Telescope.- HIRES: A High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for the Keck 10-Meter Telescope.- A Comparison of Holographic and Echelle Gratings in Astronomical Spectrometry.- What’s New in Gratings?.- Fabry-Perot Interferometers.- An Ultra-High Resolution Spectrograph in a Hurry.- SESSION 2: Low Resolution, Faint Object Spectrographs.- Overview of Faint Object Spectrographs.- A CCD Spectropolarimeter for the Lick Observatory 3-Meter Telescope.- Experience with the Palomar Double Spectrograph.- Optical Design of Image Stabilizer Systems and Associated Off-Axis Guiders.- An Immersion Grating for an Astronomical Spectrograph.- SESSION 3: Multi-Object Spectrographs.- to Session on Multi-Object Spectrographs.- Multiple Object Spectroscopy.- Multi-Object Spectrography at ESO and the CFHT.- Fiber-Fed Instrumentation at CTIO.- The MX Spectrometer: Operational Results.- Fiber Optics at Kitt Peak National Observatory.- Multifiber Spectroscopy for the Keck 10-Meter Telescope.- A Bench Fiber Fed Spectrograph for Stellar Line Variability Studies.- A New Device for Faint Objects High Resolution Imagery and Bidimensional Spectrography (First Observational Results with “TIGER” at CFHT 3.6-Meter Telescope).- All-Reflective Aspherized Grating Spectrographs at the Prime Focus of the CFHT.- The Large Pupil Case: The ESSEFEM Multislit Spectrograph.- SILFID: A Versatile Fiber-Optics Spectrograph for Faint Objects.- SESSION 4: Imaging and Photometry, Image Reconstruction.- to Session on Imaging and Photometry, Image Reconstruction.- Image Reconstruction Using Adaptive Optics.- Laser Guide Stars for Adaptive Optical Telescopes.- Speckle Imaging Review.- Image Stabilization at the ESO 2.2-Meter Telescope with DISCO.- Adaptive Optics Activities a ESO.- High-Resolution Imaging with Segmented Pupils.- A High Speed CCD Photometer for McDonald Observatory.- SESSION 5: Data Analysis, Software and Systems.- A User’s View of Data Reduction Systems.- Hardware and Software Portability and Performance.- The IRAF CCD Reduction Package — CCDRED.- The MIDAS Image Processing System.- The VISTA Astronomical CCD Data Reduction and Analysis Software.- The FIGARO Package for Astronomical Data Analysis.- SESSION 6: Detectors I: CCDs.- to CCD Session.- Traps and Deferred Charge in CCDs.- Recent CCD Technology Developments.- CCD Astrometry: One Primer and Two Problems.- Optical or Infrared — the Elusive Boundary.- SESSION 7: Detectors II: Infrared Photo-Cathodes, Photon Counters.- to Session on Photon-Counting Equipment.- Photon-Counting Detector Systems.- Properties of a 40-mm Microchannel Plate Intensifier.- The Ranicon Photon Counting Imager.- The RANICON for Ground Based Optical Astronomy.- Status of the MAMA Detector Development Program.- Experience with the MAMA Detector.- Development of Visible Light Sensitive Imaging Tubes with Microchannel Plate Intensifiers and Wedge and Strip Readout.- Interpolative Centroiding in Photon Counting Detectors.- The Photon Counting Camera CP40.- SESSION 8: Instrument Control, Data Acquisition.- to Session on Instrument Control and Data Acquisition.- New Instruments for Time-Series Photometry.- Standardization and Modularity of Instrument Controls for Astronomical Application at ESO.- UNIX and Data Collection in Astronomy.- The Control System for the UCL Coudé Echelle Spectrograph.- Optical Multi-Mode Instrumentation at the University of Sã Paulo.- Development of a High Speed Video Cassette Data Acquisition System for the Observation of Rapid Fluctuations in Solar Flares.- SESSION 9: Telescope Control, Remote Observing.- Session 9 Overview.- An Automated Supernova Search and the Design and Strategy.- An Overview of the Digitized Astronomy Supernovae Search Control and Image Processing Software.- The Status of Berkeley’s Real-Time Supernova Search.- Remote Use of the Apache Point 3.5-Meter Telescope.- The Control System for the Apache Point 3.5-Meter Telescope.- Pointing and Tracking Algorithms for the Keck 10-Meter Telescope.- CFHT Remote Observing Possibilities.- CCD TV Camera for Telescope Guiding.- Fifteen Degree Correcting Optics for a 10-Meter Liquid Mirror Telescope.- The Floating Boule Telescope Project.- SESSION 10: Equipment Available from Industry; Closing Session.- to Session on Equipment Available from Industry.- DFM Enginering, Inc. Generation III Telescope Control System TCS 68000.- A Large Area CCD Imaging System.- Workshop Summary.