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Tim Hawarden presented this paper to the 30th anniversary workshop, just a month before his untimely death. The editors have done their best to convert his talk into this paper, and gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Nick Rees (a member of the Upgrades team, now at Diamond Light Source). Tim’s discussion concerned the UKIRT Upgrades Project, which ran through the 1990s and transformed the telescope and made it truly competitive on the world stage for operation into the twenty-first century. The reference list at the end of the paper is comprehensive; some of these are referred to in the paper itself and some are included for completeness only.
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Assuming classical Kolmogorov turbulence, with a large fraction of seeing power in image motion (tip-tilt). With hindsight it is hard to find an observatory site on which this assumption is consistently appropriate.
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This system was the last of the upgrades to be implemented, we were able to report on it at the workshop itself. As an interim measure, cooling fans were mounted on the south column.
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Adamson, A., Davies, J., Robson, I. (2013). The UKIRT Upgrades Programme. In: Adamson, A., Davies, J., Robson, I. (eds) Thirty Years of Astronomical Discovery with UKIRT. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7432-2_6
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