The following table lists current and past AAO Users' Manuals, as well as a few of the important Technical Manuals which might conceivably be of use to a visiting astronomer. Where an on-line version of a manual is available (either as a WWW browse-able file, or as a Postscript document) a link has been provided.
The column Hardcopy indicates whether you can request a copy of the manual from the AAO. If the column contains a 'Y' then a copy can be requested from the AAO Librarian. If the column contains a 'N' then only a single copy is available in the AAO Library. Visiting astronomers are welcome to peruse and to make their own copies of these manuals. If the column contains a '-' then copies of the manual are not maintained by the Library, because these documents are only maintained in their on-line form.
The column Superseded by indicates whethar a manual has been supersded by a more recent version. In some cases the instrument in question has been decommisioned, in which case this is noted.
AAO User Manuals (UM) |
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| Number | Title | Release Date |
Authors | On-line Availability |
Hard- copy? |
Superseded by ... |
| 1.5 | Observers' Guide, Fifth (online) Edition | 1996+ | Sadler et al. | WWW Frames version |
- | - |
| 1.4 | Observers Guide, Fourth Edition | 1991 | Sadler et al. | Y | UM1.5 | |
| 2.4 |
RGO Spectrograph, Fourth Edition | 2002 |
Stathakis & Johnston |
WWW |
N |
RGO decomm. |
| 2.3 | RGO Spectrograph, Third Edition | 1997 | Johnston, Stathakis |
N | UM2.4 |
|
| 2.2 | RGO Spectrograph, Second Edition | 1985 | Robinson | - | N | UM2.3 |
| 3 | IRPS Users' guide (revised) | 1989 | Allen | - | N | IRPS decomm. |
| 4 | Guide to wavelength identification for comparison lamps used with RGO Spectrograph |
1986 | Statahkis et al. | - | ? | - |
| 4a | A guide to wavelength identification for the CuAr lamp | 1982 | Schinckel | - | N | - |
| 5 | Prime focus photography | 1989 | Malin | WWW | Y | - |
| 10 | IPCS users' manual | 1983 | Lucey | - | Y | IPCS decomm. |
| 11 | IPCS observations of faint object spectra: optimization of the S/N ratio |
1983 | Robertson | - | Y | IPCS decomm. |
| 15 | ASPECT: Area spectroscopy with the IPCS | 1985 | Wallace | - | N | IPCS decomm. |
| 16 | Bolton measuring machine | 1984 | White | - | N | - |
| 17 | CCD Users' Guide | 1989 | Robinson etal | ? | partially by UM35 |
|
| 18 | AAO FOCAP system (2nd ed.) | 1989 | Boyle | - | Y | - |
| WWW |
AAO Diffraction Gratings |
2002 |
Stathakis |
WWW |
N |
- |
| 19 | AAO grating efficiencies | 1986 | Johnston etal | - | Y | WWW
pages |
| 19.1 | FIGS manual (2nd ed.) | 1989 | Allen | - | N | FIGS decomm. |
| 20 | Xenon lamp atlas for FIGS | 1988 | Allen | - | Y | - |
| 21 | Schmidt Telescope Handbook | 1983 | Tritton (ROE) | - | N | - |
| 23 | FORS manual | 1989 | Couch | - | Y | FORS decomm. |
| 24.2 | Spectropolarimetry at the AAT | 1994 | Hough & Bailey | - | Y | - |
| 25.3 |
The UCL Coude Echelle
Spectrographs |
2000 |
Stathakis, Ryder, Ryan
& Fish |
WWW |
N |
New GUI for UCLES and UHRF |
| 25 | The UCL and UHRF echelle spectrographs | 1995 | Ryan & Fish | Y | UM25.3 |
|
| 26 | AUTOFIB | 1991 | Sharples | - | Y | AUTOFIB decomm. |
| 27 | Notes for users of the f/1 imaging system. | 1990 | Sadler et al. | WWW | N | UM35 |
| 28 | UCLES spectra of the Th-Ar lamp I. The 79 groves/mm grating |
1991 | Bessell & Pettini |
- | Y | - |
| 29 | PDS microdensitometer users' guide | 1991 | Farrell | - | N | - |
| 30 | IRIS Users' Guide |
1991 | Allen | WWW | - | IRIS decomm. |
| 30b | IRIS Reduction Guide |
1992 | Allen | WWW | - | - |
| 31.1 | FLAIR System Users' Guide - Part 1 | 1995 | Parker & Watson |
WWW | Y | - |
| 33 | The OBSERVER software system | 1991 | Lupton et al. | - | N | - |
| 34 | UCLES spectra of the Th-Ar lamp II. The 31.6 groves/mm grating |
1991 | Meurer et al. | - | Y | - |
| 35 | The AAO CCD Imaging Manual | 1996 | Tinney etal | WWW | - | - |
| 36 | An RGO CuAr Atlas with the 600 line gratings | 1996 | Tinney | Postscript Figaro arc files |
- | - |
| 37 | FLAIR Data Reduction with IRAF | 1996 | Drinkwater | WWW Postscript |
- | - |
| 38 | The 2dF Manual | 1996 | Bailey | WWW | - | AAOmega pages |
| 99 | Taurus II | 1992 | Taylor | Postscript | - | TAURUS decomm. |
| Taurus & TTF pages |
1998 |
Hawthorn, Jones &
Kedziora-Kudzer |
WWW |
- |
TAURUS decomm. |
|
| LDSS++ pages |
1998 |
Glazebrook | WWW |
- |
LDSS decomm. |
|
| AAO Filter Catalogue |
2005 |
Tinney, Lee |
WWW |
- |
- |
|
| MITLL2 CCD Performance |
1997 |
Tinney et al. |
WWW |
- |
MITLL2A | |
| MITLL2A CCD Performance |
2000 |
Tinney, Ryder et al. |
WWW |
- |
MITLL2A decomm. |
|
| MITLL3 CCD Performance |
1998 |
Tinney, Ryder et al. | WWW |
- |
Use with AAO-2 Controllers |
|
| EEV CCD Performance |
2001 |
Tinney, Ryder et al. | WWW |
- |
Use with AAO-2 Controllers |
|
| CCD Performance with AAO-2 Controllers | 2004 |
Croom | WWW |
- |
- |
|
| UCLES ThAr Atlas with MITLL
& EEV 2kx4k CCDs |
2001 |
Ryder |
WWW |
- |
- |
|
| SPIRAL pages | 2001 |
Corbett, Bailey et al. |
Technical Data Red'n |
- |
SPIRAL integrated with AAOmega |
|
| Wide Field Imager &
Prime Focus Upgrade pages |
2002 |
Tinney |
WWW |
- |
- |
|
| 6dF pages |
2003 |
Watson |
WWW |
- |
- |
|
| IRIS2 pages |
2002+ |
Ryder & Tinney |
WWW |
- |
- |
|
| UCLES GUI page |
2006+ |
Ryder |
WWW |
- |
- |
|
| UHRF GUI page |
2006+ |
Ryder |
WWW |
- |
- |
|
| AAOmega pages |
2006+ |
Sharp |
WWW |
- |
- |
|
AAO Technical Manuals (TM) |
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| TM 7 | Telescope Control System | 1989 | Lee | - | N | - |
| TM 8 | FLAIR CCD system User Guide | 1991 | Oates | - | Y | - |