| List of participants | |
| Foreword | |
| 1 | An optical designer for UK astronomy | 3 |
| 2 | Ten years of the Manchester Echelle Spectrometers | 9 |
| 3 | Developments in optical systems for infrared astronomical instruments | 24 |
| 4 | Optical features of IRIS | 39 |
| 5 | The FLAIR II system at the UK Schmidt Telescope | 49 |
| 6 | Focal length converters | 57 |
| 7 | Recent CCD developments at RGO and ING, La Palma | 73 |
| 8 | Optical instruments: where we go from here | 89 |
| 9 | Increasing the efficiency and range of spectrographs | 103 |
| 10 | The problem of achromatizing astronomical optics for the near and mid infrared | 114 |
| 11 | The next generation of near infra-red imaging spectrometers | 128 |
| 12 | Three-mirror telescope - optical tests and observations | 139 |
| 13 | Bispectral imaging: past, present and future | 159 |
| 14 | COAST - a progress report | 172 |
| 15 | Adaptive optics - the MARTINI system | 179 |
| 16 | A Virgo galaxy resolved via WHT MARTINI image sharpening | 206 |
| 17 | Adaptive optics at ESO | 213 |
| 18 | The challenge of excellent sites | 223 |
| 19 | Testing telescopes from out-of-focus images: application to ground-based telescopes and to the space telescope | 236 |
| 20 | Super seeing from Antarctica? | 244 |
| 21 | Science with HRCam at the CFHT | 247 |
| 22 | Grubb Parsons - from war to peace | 267 |
| 23 | Charles Wynne - an astronomer's view | 282 |