From marc.duldig at utas.edu.au Tue Apr 11 14:37:16 2017 From: marc.duldig at utas.edu.au (Marc Duldig) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 04:37:16 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ASA Council expressions of interest Message-ID: Dear ASA Members Under the ASA Constitution (http://asa.astronomy.org.au/constitution.php) the Council is required to prepare a slate of candidates for the next Council, and then to present this to the membership along with a call for any further nominations. The Council must take account of diversity issues such as gender, geographic representation, area of expertise and career level and attempt to cover as broad a range of these aspects as possible when nominating candidates. Another prerequisite that the Council must consider is the willingness of the nominees to put in the necessary time on the work of the Council. The existing Council can be seen at http://asa.astronomy.org.au/council.php#council. The Executive and Councillors are elected positions whilst the "Other Council positions" are appointed by the Council for specific roles. The Council tries to ensure that the Executive nominees have previous Council experience to ensure a level of continuity in Council proceedings. To encourage broad participation in the governance of the ASA and to assist preparation of the slate of candidates, Council seeks informal expressions of interest from members with interest in nominating as an ASA Councillor. As required by the constitution, there will be a subsequent formal call for nominations from the membership after the Council nominations are announced. Any full member (Member, Fellow or Honorary Fellow) interested in serving on the ASA Council should send an email to Marc Duldig Marc.Duldig at utas.edu.au with a sentence or two supporting their candidacy by the end of April. Regards to all and have a happy and safe Easter break. 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URL: From Paul.Francis at anu.edu.au Wed Apr 12 15:03:19 2017 From: Paul.Francis at anu.edu.au (Paul Francis) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 05:03:19 +0000 Subject: [ASA] SkyMapper Call for Proposals 2017B In-Reply-To: <58ED8229.1000009@anu.edu.au> References: <58ED8229.1000009@anu.edu.au> Message-ID: SkyMapper Call for Proposals for non-survey time on the SkyMapper Telescope: Semester 2017B (Jul-Dec) Application deadline: 23:59 on 30 April 2017 Hours available: --------------------- dark: 32.5hrs -- ANU: 25.0hrs, AU: 7.5hrs grey: 25.0hrs -- ANU: 19.5hrs, AU: 5.5hrs bright: 14.5hrs -- ANU: 11.0hrs, AU: 3.5hrs -------------------------------- Total: 72.0hrs -- ANU: 55.5hrs, AU: 16.5hrs dark - Moon phase < 35% + Moon phase < 65% when Moon below the horizon grey - Moon phase 35-65% when Moon in the sky + Moon phase 65-94% bright - Moon phase > 94% ------------ How to apply ------------ For full instructions for proposals and information on SkyMapper please refer to https://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~skymap/instructions_SMprop.html You can only apply for images that will not replicate the observations of the public SkyMapper Southern Sky Survey (all-sky dec < +2, 100 sec images in u,v (6 visits) and g,r,i,z (4 visits), operating until 2019). The SkyMapper team can prioritise public survey fields to a limited extent in any given semester. If you'd like a field to be observed with priority, please do not submit a proposal, but contact the SkyMapper team (skymapper at anu.edu.au) who will help on a best-effort basis. Proposals should not directly compete with SkyMapper legacy science projects, which are listed at http://skymapper.anu.edu.au/science-projects/ All proposals MUST specify how their time is to be broken down between ANU and other Australian time. All proposals MUST specify the required Moon phase (bright/grey/dark) for their observations. This is necessary to ensure the long-term balance between survey and non-survey observations. Proposals should include a two-page scientific and technical justification. Please email your proposal to paul.francis at anu.edu.au before the deadline. If you do not receive confirmation that we've received your e-mail within 24 hours, please contact us again. Your proposal will be ranked by the ANU-TAC and, if successful, forwarded to the SkyMapper team for scheduling and robotic observation. All images will receive basic processing by the SkyMapper Science Data Pipeline alongside survey observations (and thus will be done in temporal order). We also remind users of the availability of SkyMapper Discretionary Time of up to 3 nights per semester in total. Requests for this time can be sent at short notice during the observing semester by email to christian.wolf at anu.edu.au , but will only be granted for urgent and potential high-impact observations that exploit the uniqueness of SkyMapper under circumstances, where a regular proposal could not have been anticipated. ----------------- Telescope Summary ----------------- SkyMapper is a 1.3m telescope with a 5.7 sq. deg. FoV and a 268 Megapixel camera. There are six primary filters (u,v,g,r,i,z), plus an H-alpha filter subject to strong scheduling constraints. 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Further details can be found in the attached flier and on the AAL website: http://www.astronomyaustralia.org.au/advertisments/197-advertisements Please feel free to circulate this email to your colleagues and suitable candidates. Kind Regards, Mita ________________________________________ Dr Mita Brierley Senior Program Manager Astronomy Australia Ltd Mon, Tues, Thurs T: 03 9214 8012 E: mita.brierley at astronomyaustralia.org.au W: http://www.astronomyaustralia.org.au/ P: P.O. Box 2100 Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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With the aim of making sure that the AAT is adequately subscribed during the first four months of 2018A, the AAO is notifying astronomers of this intervention ahead of the 2018A call for proposals. We encourage astronomers to consider this as an opportunity to submit proposals that could use a substantial fraction of this time. The AAO regularly mounts visitor instruments (e.g. HIPPI), so proposals to mount and use visitor instruments are also welcome. The AAO will start accepting proposals for 2018A during the middle of August, which is about one month before the proposal deadline. If you have any questions, please contact Chris Lidman ---- Dr. Chris Lidman Head of National Facilities Support Australian Astronomical Observatory Phone: ++61 (0)2 9372 4823 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: