History - High Resolution Spectrographs of the Past

The 6 m Ebert spectroscope built by GW King 1953-1955. The instrument, which had a resolution of 0.1 cm -1 at 5000 Å was located in the basement of the Old Chemistry building (The Ramsay and Forster Laboratories) in Gower Place.

This was later replaced by the 4 m Czerny-Turner spectrograph, affectionately referred to as the Yellow Submarine. It was designed and built by John H Callomon and G G Chandler 1967-1969 and in the early 90's was considered one of the Hidden Wonders of UCL. The resolution of the instrument was 0.023 cm -1 at 5000 Å. This was housed in LG8 of the Christopher Ingold building until it was dismantled in 1995 when Dr Steve Price inherited the lab.

This page last modified 20 September, 2010