1.9-m Telescope
SpUpNIC – formerly the Cassegrain Spectrograph – upgraded and recommissioned Oct 2015
GIRAFFE: Fibre-fed Echelle – not available for applications at present, pending upgrades
SAAO CCD Camera (STE3/STE4) – currently only available on the 1-m telescope
1.0-m Telescope
Lesedi
Decommissioned Instruments
UCT CCD – decommissioned January 2013, replaced with SHOC
Modular Photometer – decommissioned with the 0.5-m telescope, donated to UFS in February 2015
Infrared Photometer Mk II – decommissioned with the 0.75-m telescope, donated to UKZN in February 2015
The tale of STE3/4 – Telling the story of the dying SAAO CCD instruments in layman terms