** UNITED KINGDOM INFRARED TELESCOPE **

United Kingdom Infrared Telescope

N E W S L E T T E R

ISSUE 9, AUTUMN 2001

Michelle first light at UKIRT!
** Front Cover **
A combination of (chopped) images, taken through 10.7, 12.5 and 18.6 µm narrow-band filters, on 23 August 2001 UT.

CONTENTS OF THE AUTUMN 2001 NEWSLETTER

TOP END

RESEARCH NEWS  

  • The 3.3µm UIR band in the Red Rectangle
  • Observing accretion and outflow from protostars on solar system scales
  • Sakurai's Object - a star rises from the dead
UKIRT NEWS 
  • The Michelle spectrometer arrives at UKIRT
  • ORAC-OT3
  • View from the top
  • John Davies

SPECIAL REPORT

  • UIST, a new imager-spectrometer for UKIRT

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