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 on the first Friday of March for the B semester and the first 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 2012B, the deadline is Friday March 2, 2012. Pre-proposals for WIYN and Keck are due on Friday, February 24, 2012.
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) | yprop12B.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 Gardner.
Submitted proposals are posted on a password protected website for TAC review.
Abstracts of proposals that were awarded time in 12A.
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.