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Queue to Return for Spring Semester (1Sep93)
(from KPNO, NOAO Newsletter No. 35, 1 September 1993)

We will continue offering queue scheduled observing in the spring 1994
semester on the 2.1-m telescope with GoldCam, on the 0.9-m telescope in
direct imaging mode using the T2KA chip, and at the Coud Feed with the
F3KB CCD. Queue scheduling will be offered only with these telescope
and instrument combinations and only for a portion of the available
observing time. The fraction of time devoted to queue scheduled
observations will depend on the demand for such an observing mode and
the availability of resources to provide this service. At the 2.1-m,
observations will be taken by KPNO staff members working with the 2.1-m
LTO, and at the 0.9-m and Feed observations will be taken by KPNO
staff. As discussed in previous articles on queue scheduling (see
Newsletter No. 33), remember that you are more likely to get your data
in a queue scheduled mode, and queue scheduling can result in more
science per unit time.

If you are proposing for time on one of these telescopes with the
instruments described above, and if you wish to have your program
considered for queue scheduling, simply write the word "queue" on the
first page of the observing form in the space following the words "None
of these". If your queue proposal is accepted, you will be notified
that it is part of the queue program shortly after the initial TAC
letters are sent, and we will contact you about the precise parameters
for the observations requested.  Further information about the spring
queue scheduling program can be obtained by sending a request to
queue-help@noao.edu. We hope you will be interested in participating in
this program and will wish to realize the economies and efficiencies
made possible by queue scheduling.

George Jacoby, Todd Boroson

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