Proposal due dates
Proposals are solicited for Yale observing time on the SMARTS telescopes, WIYN, and the Keck telescopes. Unless otherwise stated, full proposals are due at 17:00:00 Eastern Time on the first Friday of March for the B semester and the second Friday of September for the A semester. Pre-proposals for WIYN and Keck are due a week before the proposal deadline, also on Friday. For 2013B, the deadline is Friday March 8, 2013. Pre-proposals for WIYN and Keck are due on Friday, March 1, 2013.
Click here for information on SMARTS, WIYN and Keck
Pre-proposal form and website
Please use this pre-proposal form for WIYN and Keck pre-proposals.
The submitted pre-proposals can be found here.
Proposal form and submission
Time requests for all telescopes and instruments should use the following form:
yaleprop.tex (template) | yprop13B.sty (latex style file) | yaleprop.pdf (example)
IMPORTANT: Do not remove the empty "Obsrun" lines in the proposal! If you remove these lines the observing runs may not show up in the processed file.
Completed proposals should be sent to Victoria Misenti (at yale . edu).
Submitted proposals are posted on a password protected website for TAC review.
What to do after you have been awarded time by the Yale TAC
- SMARTS: SMARTS schedulers will be given your proposal and will contact you if they need any more information.
- WIYN: Submit your proposal through the NOAO proposal submission form.
- Keck: Fill out a Keck cover sheet on the Keck observer login page and send it to Victoria Misenti (at yale . edu) for submission.
Abstracts of proposals that have been awarded time.
TAC procedures
The astronomy department revised its telescope allocation procedures in 2008 and reviewed them in December of 2009. The procedures can be found in this document.