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Service Observing by Yale Astronomers on 0.9-m (1Jun92) (from CTIO, NOAO Newsletter No. 30, 1 June 1992) As part of the agreement by which CTIO operates the Yale 1-m telescope, Yale astronomers are guaranteed a certain number of nights each semester on the 1-m and 0.9-m telescopes. At the request of the Yale staff and students, the 0.9-m time during first semester of 1993 (February-July) will be allocated in a few blocks of approximately one to two weeks duration each. The Yale observers have graciously expressed their willingness to carry out a limited amount of service observing for the NOAO community on an experimental basis as part of these runs. Depending on the number of requests received, one or more nights will be added to each of the block runs, with the observing on all nights to be performed by Yale personnel. We expect this arrangement to be especially attractive to those who desire a few frames of a particular object which require considerably less than a night to obtain, or for projects which entail frequent monitoring of a field over a period of several days. Requests for service observing time on the 0.9-m as part of the Yale block runs should be submitted by 30 September using the normal CTIO observing proposal form. Please identify in Section 2 of the proposal form that the request is being made as part of the Yale Service Observing program. Please be very explicit with regard to the targets to be observed and the amount of time involved. All such proposals will be reviewed and graded by the TAC in the normal fashion. Of course, as with any observing proposal, we cannot guarantee results; accepted service proposals may fall victim to weather and other logistical problems, just like any other observation. We hope that this experiment will be of interest to a number of CTIO users, and wish to express our thanks to the Yale staff and students for their interest in bringing a limited service observing capability to the 0.9-m telescope. Mark Phillips
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