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Recent Instrumentation Highlights

• Design and Construction of 2.3m alt-az telescope at Siding Spring Observatory (SSO)
• Design and construction of an extremely efficient Double-Beam spectrograph (DBS) for the 2.3m telescope
• Design and construction of the Cryogenic Array Spectrometer/Imager (CASPIR), an infrared (1 to 3 microns) imager and spectrograph for the 2.3m telescope
• Provision of an IR tip-tilt secondary mirror for the 2.3m telescope to compensate for atmospheric seeing
• Refurbishment and computer control for the 50 inch MACHO telescope
• Construction of an 8Kx8K (a mosaic of eight 4Kx2K CCDs) Wide-Field Imager (WFI) for the AAO and RSAA telescopes, including software control, and on-line data processing and archiving
• Design and Manufacture of a Planetary Nebula Spectrograph for an Australian-Dutch consortium for use on telescopes at the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
• Design of a Near IR Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) for the 8m Gemini telescope in Hawaii
• Design of a Design of the Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) for the 8m Gemini telescope in Chile
• Design and construction of facilities for the Automated Astrophysical Site Testing Observatory (AASTO), for remote, low power operation at the South Pole and Antarctic Plateau
• Construction of optical components for SHRIMP the extremely sophisticated mass spectrometer sold by Australian Scientific Instruments (ASI) P/L
• Manufacture of the large aspheric correcting plates for the revolutionary 2-degree field (2dF) instrument on the AAT
• Design and development of the UNIX-based Configurable Instrument Control and Data Acquisition (CICADA) system, incorporating general control of CCD and IR detector systems, graphing and imaging software tools, and processing and archiving of electronic data
• Adaptive optics research and mirror characterization - Xinetics Deformable Mirror.