Instrumentation The Astrophysics group makes use of a wide variety of instrumentation, from the telescope on the roof of the Hicks building to the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes on La Palma. You are here Home School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Research Physics and astronomy research Astrophysics Instrumentation HiPERCAM Quintuple-beam high-speed astronomical imager, currently installed on the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias, La Palma. ULTRACAM High-speed, three-channel CCD camera, currently installed on the 3.5m New Technology Telescope, Chile. ULTRASPEC High-speed frame-transfer electron-multiplying CCD camera, currently installed on the 2.4m Thai National Telescope. Professors Vik Dhillon and Dave Petley with other attendees standing in the GOTO dome on La Palma. Image courtesy of Antonio González/IAC. Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) Set of wide-field telescopes on a single mount to identify optical counterparts to gravitational wave events, at Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos, La Palma. pt5m Robotic 0.5m telescope on La Palma for atmospheric turbulence profiling and transient astronomy. Hicks Observatory 0.4m Meade LX200-ACF Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope at the University of Sheffield. Robotic Observatory for Sheffield Astronomy (ROSA) 0.25m Meade LX200-ACF telescope at the University of Sheffield.
