DATE: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:05:19 +1000
SUBJECT: AAT Service Observing - Call for Proposals


        AAT SERVICE OBSERVING - CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO) operates a service observing
programme at the 4-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) for proposals
requiring less than 6 hours of observing time. The next deadline is

          *** Thursday, 1st October 2009, at 23:59 ***

  (Australian Eastern Standard Time, i.e. UTC + 10 hrs)
Applications are welcomed from all astronomers, worldwide.

The following instruments are available for service observations:
AAOmega, IRIS2, UCLES/UHRF, SPIRAL.


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NOTE: Calls for AAT Service Time are now THREE times per year:
                1 October, 1 February, 1 June
(AAOmega fld file deadlines still follow 6 weeks after each proposal
deadline on 15 November, 15 March, and 15 July.)

We especially encourage bright time proposals for AAOmega.

CYCLOPS, the new cassegrain-mounted fibre feed for UCLES/UHRF will be
offered on a shared-risk basisin 10A (subject to the successful
commissioning of the instrument in January 2010).  The AAO expects that
CYCLOPS will be the default feed into UCLES for most applications using
the 79 l/mm echelle. Interested users are urged to consult the UCLES
instrument pages for more information:

http://www.aao.gov.au/AAO/astro/ucles.html

and should also state in their proposals whether they can use the
conventional coude slit feed (in the event that CYCLOPS is unavailable).

Service Programmes expire after 18 months. Current programmes submitted
before 01 April 2008 will be purged from the queue. If you have an
existing programme in this category, you are invited to resubmit this
round.
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(The number of service nights allocated per instrument is set each  
semester
by the Anglo-Australian Time Assignment Committee (AATAC).)

Please see http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/service/service.html for more
information about the AAT Service Programme and application forms.

Chris Springob         (service @ aao.gov.au)
Helen Woods