NOAO Observing Proposals Due for 1998B

Proposals for observing time for the 1998B semester (August 1998-January 1999) at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and Kitt Peak National Observatory are due 31 March 1998, Midnight MST. Proposals submitted on paper are due a week earlier on 24 March 1998 at 5pm MST.

There are three ways in which an investigator may submit an observing proposal:

• Through a Web form available at http://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/. The information provided on the Web form is formatted and submitted as a LaTeX file including figures that are "attached" to the Web proposal as encapsulated PostScript files. Documentation, including a short LaTeX guide, is provided online.

• By e-mail to noaoprop-submit@noao.edu using our LaTeX template and style file. The files necessary for building the proposal are available from our anonymous FTP archive at ftp.noao.edu in the noaoprop directory. A README file is part of the distribution files and contains information necessary to complete the proposal.

  We encourage all investigators to obtain current versions of the README file, the LaTeX template, and the style file, which incorporate changes in NOAO policies and format as described in the accompanying articles in this section.

• Proposals are still being accepted on paper, but investigators should be aware that this type of submission has an earlier deadline as noted above. A blank proposal form may be requested from the NOAO Proposal Office, SCience OPErations Division, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726-6732 (US mail) or 950 N. Cherry, Tucson, AZ 85719 (courier). A blank proposal form is also available from our FTP archives, mentioned above, as the file blank.ps. The completed proposal form should be sent to the NOAO Proposal Office at one of the addresses given above.

http://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/: Web-based proposal form

ftp.noao.edu, cd noaoprop: FTP archive for LaTeX files

noaoprop-help@noao.edu: Help from a person for proposal preparation

noaoprop-letter@noao.edu: E-mail address for thesis and visitor instrument letters

noaoprop-request@noao.edu: E-mail address for automatic retrieval of LaTeX files necessary to prepare a proposal

noaoprop-submit@noao.edu: Address for submitting LaTeX proposals by e-mail

ctio@noao.edu: CTIO-specific questions related to an observing run

kpno@noao.edu: KPNO-specific questions related to an observing run

The SCOPE Proposal Team