The University of Sheffield
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Instrumentation


Telescopes

  • 0.4m Hicks
  • 0.25m Robotic (ROSA)
  • Celestron 8" and 5" Schmidt-Cassegrains
  • Celestron 8" Schmidt Cameras
  • Heliostat

Instruments/Detectors

  • QSI 532 CCD with integrated UBVRI Filter Wheel (0.25m Robotic (ROSA) only)
  • SBIG ST-10XME CCD with integrated UBVRI Filter Wheel
  • SBIG SGS Spectrograph
  • Starlight Xpress HX916 CCD
  • Starlight Xpress Lodestar Imager/Autoguider
  • SBIG ST4 CCD Imager/Autoguider
  • True Technology Custom-Wheel Filter System with UBVRI and RGB filter sets
  • Canon EOS 400D Digital SLR
  • SLR Cameras
  • Binoculars (available for hire via Paul Kerry)
  • Van Slyke Engineering Multi-Port Flipper
  • Mylar Solar Filters (Celestron 8" and 5" Schmidt-Cassegrains only)