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WIYN Science Operations Planning Update (1Jun94) (from KPNO, NOAO Newsletter No. 38, 1 June 1994) As described in the following article, WIYN is rapidly nearing completion. We are on schedule for a "shared risk" operations start in early 1995. We remind potential WIYN users that details about WIYN observation proposals and the WIYN time allocation process will be released on 15 August 1994. At that time, the current status of the telescope and instrumentation as well as the application, proposal review, and program scheduling process will be described. The application process will be very similar to the current KPNO process, and applications will be accepted either electronically or in paper form. During the "shared risk" period, most observations will be queue/service scheduled as preliminarily described in "Planning for Early WIYN Science Operations" in NOAO Newsletter No. 36 (December 1993) and "Preparing for WIYN Proposals" in NOAO Newsletter No. 37 (March 1994). The latter article also contains a preliminary discussion of "first light" WIYN instrumentation. All WIYN science operations planning material will be available via anonymous ftp and will reside at ftp.noao.edu in the directory wiyn/sciops/shared. The README file in that directory will provide further instructions. Readers may request information release notification from Dave Silva (silva@noao.edu or (602) 325-9358). A paper version of this information will also be available from Silva. This information will also be disseminated in the September 1994 NOAO Newsletter. Dave Silva, Caty Pilachowski
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