We are soliciting proposals for service/queue observing with the 1-m telescope at CTIO, beginning in second semester 1998. The YALO consortium (Yale, AURA, Lisbon and Ohio State; see NOAO Newsletter No. 52) will begin operations in April-May of 1998, and by the second semester should be available for community projects. The telescope will have one permanently mounted instrument, a dual channel optical-IR imager; as of late January, it appears that only the optical CCD will be available initially.
The NOAO community has access to 9% of this telescope time. Since there will be a service/queue observer, we encourage proposals for synoptic programs where a few frames per night will yield significant scientific benefits. Proposals will be submitted and evaluated in the same way as all other proposals to CTIO. The instrument and program details are still being finalized. We ask interested proposers to check the CTIO Web pages in mid-March, for technical information and proposal advice/recommendations.
Bob Schommer (rschommer@noao.edu),
Charles Bailyn, Yale University (bailyn@astro.yale.edu)