SYNOPSES OF MOUNT HAMILTON FACILITY INSTRUMENTS: SPECTROGRAPHS

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INSTRUMENT	TELESCOPE	DISPERSER DISPERSION RANGE COVERAGE	DETECTOR
HAMILTON ECHELLE SPECTROGRAPH A prism cross-dispersed, high-resolution instrument. Steve Vogt, UCSC	Shane 3-m coude and Coude Auxiliary Telescope (CAT)	resolution ~ 95000 @ 6500 A echelle 0.029 A/pix @ 3500 A 0.083 A/pix @ 9840 A 3500-10000 A 6500 A	dewar #6, 2048 x 2048 thinned CCD, 15-u pixels
KAST DOUBLE SPECTROGRAPH A simultaneous red/blue, two-channel instrument, with limited imaging capability. Joe Miller, UCSC	Shane 3-m cassegrain	red channel: resolution ~ 500-3000 600 / 5000 A 1.30 A/pix 3800-10000 A 3470 A 600 / 7500 A 1.30 A/pix 3800-10000 A 3470 A 830 / 8460 A 0.94 A/pix 3800-10000 A 2490 A 1200 / 5000 A 0.65 A/pix 3800-7310 A 1720 A 300 / 4230 A 2.53 A/pix 3800-11000 A 6760 A 300 / 7500 A 2.55 A/pix 3800-11000 A 6785 A blue channel: resolution ~ 700-1700 452 / 3306 A 1.41 A/pix 3100-6200 A 2890 A 600 / 4310 A 1.02 A/pix 3100-5520 A 2090 A 830 / 3460 A 0.63 A/pix 3100-4550 A 1290 A A polarimeter is available for use in both channels.	red channel: Kast Red dewar, 4096 x 1024 Hamamatsu CCD, 15-u pixels blue channel: Kast Blue dewar, 2048 x 2048 Fairchild CCD, 15-u pixels
LEVY ESCHELLE SPECTORGRAPH An eschelle spectrometer with fixed grating and cross-disperser for improved stabiity. Steve Vogt, UCSC	Automated Planet Finder (APF)	max resolution ~ 119,000 @ 5500 A echelle 0.0197 A/pix @ 5500 A 3750-9800 A 6050 A	E2V CCD42-90, 2048 x 2048, 13.5-u pixels
ShARCS / Shane Adaptive Optics The Shane AO system and ShARCS camera is primarily a direct imaging instrument, but offers low resolution spectrograph capability.	Shane 3-m cassegrain	See ShARCS manual
NICKEL SPECTROGRAPH Instrument has been decomissioned, but retaining information here for archival data reference. Richard Stover, UCSC (Decommissioned)	Nickel 1-m cassegrain	resolution ~ 300 / 5500 A 7.6 A/pix - 9120 A 600 / 6500 A 2.5 A/pix - 3000 A 600 / 4820 A 3.5 A/pix - 4820 A 300 / 7800 A 7.2 A/pix - 8640 A 420 / 5600 A 5.0 A/pix - 6000 A echism 2.0 A/pix - order dependent Numbers are for 110 mm camera lens; 58 mm lens is no longer supported.. The 300/5500A and 300/7800A are not recommended for use.	dewar #9, 400 x 1200 thinned CCD, 27-u pixels
GEMINI THE UCLA TWIN-ARRAYS INFRARED CAMERA A simultaneous two-channel instrument with direct imaging capabilites. GEMINI is no longer available for use, but information retained here for archival purposes. Ian McLean, UCLA (Decommissioned)	Shane 3-m cassegrain	short wave channel: resolution ~ J-Grism 11.7 A/pix 1.08 - 1.38 um 3000 A H-Grism 15.9 A/pix 1.44 - 1.85 um 4050 A long wave channel: resolution ~ K-Grism 19.2 A/pix 1.92 - 2.41 um 4900 A	short wave channel: 256 x 256 NICMOS3 HgCdTe array, 40-u pixels long wave channel: 256 x 256 SBRC InSb array