[ASA] Call for Magellan Proposals in Semester 2017B

[International Telescopes Support Office]

      2017B Call for Magellan Proposals


Proposals for Australian access to the Magellan telescopes for Semester 
2017B (mid-Jul 2017 to mid-Jan 2018) are due by:

*5:00pm AEST on Friday 7 April 2017**
*
(A separate call for Gemini and Blanco proposals in Semester 2017B with 
a 31 March 2017 deadline was issued earlier - please see 
https://www.aao.gov.au/itso/gemini/apply and 
https://www.aao.gov.au/itso/blanco/apply. A reminder also that Keck 
proposals for 2017B are due by 22 March - see 
https://www.aao.gov.au/itso/keck/apply. Updated information about the 
new Keck Cosmic Web Imager instrument is now available from 
http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/inst/kcwi/pre_observing.html and should be 
consulted by all prospective applicants.)

The instruments normally available on the two Magellan telescopes are 
listed on the ITSO Magellan instrumentation 
<https://www.aao.gov.au/itso/magellan/instruments> page, but applicants 
should bear in mind the following for Semester 2017B:

  * Due to upgrade work on the CCD camera, spectrograph alignment, and
    slit input mechanism *the Planet Finding Spectrograph will not be
    available for science in 2017B*.
  * There will likely be a single MegaCam f/5 block, a single MagAO
    block, and perhaps 2 M2FS blocks in 2017B, depending on demand.


In recent semesters demand for instruments mounted on the Clay telescope 
has significantly exceeded that for instruments on the Baade telescope. 
Applicants are encouraged to consider whether their science might also 
be possible using the instruments on Baade (IMACS, FourStar, FIRE, 
MagE), should their preferred instrument on Clay not be available due to 
scheduling constraints.

Complete information about all Magellan instrumentation on offer, travel 
funding, and the application procedure is available at 
https://www.aao.gov.au/itso/magellan. For any enquiries about Australian 
usage of Magellan please contact the AAO's International Telescopes 
Support Office (itso at aao.gov.au).


Stuart Ryder
Head of International Telescopes Support
Australian Astronomical Observatory

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