You have submitted your proposal by e-mail to noaoprop-submit@noao.edu or you have pressed the final "Submit" button on the Web-based form. Is it safe to go home to bed and have a good night's rest? No! Take another 5-10 minutes to be sure your proposal did not get lost between your place and ours, especially if you submitted your proposal close to the deadline.
Each proposal submitted receives an automatic e-mail reply as it is processed by our proposal queue. The contents of this message will vary depending on the contents of your proposal and how we received it (by e-mail or the Web). Most importantly, the e-mail message will contain your proposal number, as well as instructions for submitting any figures, if it was an e-mail submission. If you do not receive this e-mail message 5-10 minutes after your submission, something may have gone wrong. If you suspect a problem, send e-mail to noaoprop-help@noao.edu and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.
Additionally, selected information from all incoming proposals is automatically logged and posted to the Web at http://www.noao.edu/cgi-bin/noaoprop/propstatus . This log is updated every ten minutes, and information is listed by proposal number. Check to be sure that all of your figures have arrived, among other things.
If everything checks out, have a good night's sleep. Checking the Web log at a later time should show that your proposal has changed "Status" to "Imported" this is a manual operation and indicates that your proposal information has been imported into our database, ready to be tabulated with other proposals for the TAC's review. The "Imported" status implies, too, that your proposal was successfully printed with all of its figures.
Remember, you must have a proposal number for each proposal submitted!
The NOAO Proposal Team