Instrumentation for Astronomy with Large Optical Telescopes

Section I: Optical Telescopes, Existing and Planned.- The Zelenchuk 6m Telescope (BTA) of the USSR Academy of Sciences.- Progress Report on the Performance of the Multiple Mirror Telescope.- The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.- Honeycomb Mirrors of Borosilicate Glass; Current Results and Plans for 7-8m Diameter.- Optical System for the University of Texas 7.6m Telescope.- A 6-metre Polar-viewing Telescope.- Design of the 4.2m Herschel Telescope and Instruments.- Improved Coude Efficiency of Existing Telescopes.- Use of Large Telescopes in Fast Focal Ratio Mode - Application to the 6m Telescope (BTA).- A Coronographic Mode for Large Telescopes.- Aerodynamic and Thermal Problems Around and Inside a Dome and Telescope.- The Performance of Ground Based Telescopes.- Information Efficiencies of Telescopes and their Instrumentation.- Discussion.- Section II: Spectrographs and Spectrometers.- Multi-Order Formats to Increase the Versatility of Cassegrain Spectrographs.- Transit Telescope Designs Optimized for Multiple Object Spectroscopy with Fibers.- An Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) for Large Telescopes.- Optical Designs of Plane Aspherized Grating Spectrographs.- Un Spectrographe a Reseau Aspherique pour Telescope f/4.- High Resolution Imagery and Slitless Spectroscopy at the Prime Focus of the CFH Telescope.- The Catadioptric Camera as Used for Astronomical Spectroscopy with Image Tubes and Similar Detectors: A Limited Review.- A Spectrophotometer Devoted to Stellar Seismology.- The 200-Channel Spectrometer of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- A Photometric System to Search for Optical Variability on Time-scales of 3 x 10-7 to 300s: Main Results.- Discussion.- Session III: Interferometry.- Speckle Interferometry with the BTA Telescope.- Experiments in Differential Speckle Interferometry.- High Angular Resolution with Rotation Shearing Interferometers: Preliminary Results and Future Potentials.- A High Resolution Fourier Transform Spectrometer for the Cassegrain Focus at the CFH Telescope.- Two Dimensional Interferometric Photon Counting Observations with the 6m Telescope.- Measurements of Photon Statistics with Nanosecond Resolution.- Discussion.- Session IV: Detector Systems.- Solid State Imagers for Astronomy.- Recent Progress with Multi-Anode Microchannel Array Detector Systems.- Spectroscopy with Photon-Counting Reticons.- Experiments with Silicon Array Detectors in the RGO Coude Spectrograph.- Two-Dimensional Television System: Application for Direct Acquisition of Images and Speckle Interferometry.- TV Spectrum Scanner of the 6-meter Telescope.- Utilisation des Recepteurs Electronographiques avec les Grands Telescopes.- Application of the Electronographic Image Converter for Spectroscopy at the 2.6m Reflector of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- First Results with an Electronographic Camera Used at the Prime Focus of the C.F.H. Telescope in Hawaii.- Discussion.- Author Index.