| Observatory | nights/year | proposal method | rules/training |
| Fan | all of them | talk to Mike Skrutskie (30″) or Ricky Patterson (40″) | |
| APO 3.5m | 20 | Time allocated in half-night blocks by QUARTER, deadlines in June, September, December, March ~1 paragraph science justification, plus description of scheduling and technical constraints (e.g. lunar phase) to Bob O'Connell recent schedule |
must visit once,get training then can remote observe observing info it is worth joining the mailing list by sending an email to apo35-request@astro.princeton.edu |
| LBT/Steward | 6.33 | Time allocated by TRIMESTER, deadlines in late Oct, mid-March, mid-July Currently only Bright time is available (2007) ~1 paragraph science justification, plus description of scheduling and technical constraints (e.g. lunar phase) to Bob O'Connell |
most recent call SO observing policies |
| Time is distributed throughout year and lunar phase Other Steward facilities are available with the following conversions of nights/LBT night: | |||
| Magellan | 2/LBTN allocated by SEMESTER, deadlines late Oct, mid-March | ||
| MMT | 2/LBTN | must receive training observing info including prep forms | |
| Bok | 6/LBTN | training required before the run: info from Betsy Green | |
| VATT | 6/LBTN | ||
| Catalinas61" | 14/LBTN | Bigelow site - it looks like the cognizant person is Paul Smith | |
| Catalinas60" | 28/LBTN | Lemmon site - I think this is the right link | |
| AZ Radio Observatory (HHT/SMT) | 2.5 24hr days/LBTN | ||
| Instrument | Wavelength | Spectral Res | FOV | Slit Width | Spatial Res | S/N=10 Sensitivity | Notes | ||
| Spectrographs | |||||||||
| Fan | FOBOS | optical | 1500 | - | - | V~14 | |||
| APO | Fabry-perot | optical | ~1000 | 3.4' | seeing | ? | |||
| MMT | Hectospec | optical | 1000 | 1deg | multifiber | 1.5'' | R~22 in 45min | ||
| Bok | BC spectrograph | optical | 1000 | - | 1-2″ | - | training required: info from Betsy Green | ||
| APO | DIS | optical | 1000-10000 | 4'x6' | 0.9''-open | seeing | ? | ||
| MMT | MMTS | optical | few 100-10000 | - | seeing | V~22 in 10min | |||
| Magellan | LDSS | optical | 1000 | 8' | multi/mask | seeing | |||
| Magellan | IMACS | optical | 2000-20000 | 24' | 0.5''-open | seeing | ? | ||
| APO | Echelle | optical | 30000 | - | 1.6″ | seeing | V~16 in 5min | ||
| MMT | Hectochelle | optical | 35000 | 1deg | multifiber | - | |||
| Magellan | MIKE | optical | 20000-80000 | 0.35 | - | V~17 in 15min | |||
| APO | Cormass | 0.75um-2.5um | 300 | - | 0.75″ | seeing | K~14.5 in 15min | also avail on VATT? | |
| ARO | 12m | 2mm-3mm | 5-2000kHz | - | 30'' | ||||
| ARO | SMT | 345,490GHz | few 100kHz | - | 20'' | Desertstar somewhat operational | |||
| ARO | SMT_HEB | 690,810GHz | ? | - | 10'' | ALMA B6 mixer avail? | |||
| Cameras | |||||||||
| Fan | 40"CCD | optical | 12' | seeing | |||||
| Bok | 90prime | optical | 1deg | seeing~1.3'' | V=19 in 10sec | training required before the run - contact Betsy Green | |||
| MMT | Megacam | optical | 24' | r~25 in 15min | |||||
| APO | SPIcam | optical | 4.78' | seeing | ? | ||||
| Magellan | MAGIC | optical | 2.4' | seeing | V=25.7 in 10min | ||||
| MMT | SWIRC | J,H | 5.1' | H~20.8 in 15min | |||||
| APO | NICFPS | 0.85-2.5um | 4.58' | seeing | H~21.2 in 1hr | ||||
| Fan | Fancam | 0.85-2.5um | 8.7' | seeing | H~16 in 10min??? | ||||
| Magellan | PANIC | NIR | 2' | seeing | H~20.7 in 15min | ||||
| Magellan | Fourstar | JHK | 10.9' | seeing | COMING 2007? | ||||
| MMT | ARIES | 1-5um | 40″ | 0.15'' | H~19.6 in 10sec | ||||
| MMT | MIRAC | 5-25um | 11.5″ | 0.4'' at 12um | 0.1Jy at 12um in 10min | ||||
| Unclear or uncommonly used PI instruments | |||||||||
| MMT | SPOL | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||||
| MMT | CLIO | broad IR | ~10″ | seeing | L~15 in 5 min | ||||