NOAO >   TAC Home

NOAO TAC Homepage

2008B Observing Proposals

Click on the appropriate link below to access a list of proposals for your panel. These lists, which can be filtered and sorted in a variety of ways, provide online access to the proposals and technical review comments (when available).

• Proposal Grading Page   (use this to enter initial grades for all proposals for your panel)
• Proposal Worksheet Comments   (use to share proposal comments with members of your panel)
• TAC Comments Form   (use this to enter comments on proposals for which you are the lead reviewer)
• Instructions for Reviewing and Grading Standard Proposals   (PDF)
• Estimated Nights Available by Telescope and Panel (subscription rates by telescope, etc.)
• Grade-ordered List of Proposals   (all proposals in your panel, in grade order - takes a few seconds)
• Technical Reviews   (as available)
• Requested Time Calculator   (list runs and total nights by telescope, instrument, and/or moon phase)
• Proposals by Investigator   (list proposals by investigator)

Merging TAC Materials and Resources

• TAC Comments
• Technical Reviews
• Nights Requested/Available by Telescope and Panel
• Final Grade Histograms by Panel
• Multi-Telescope Proposals (list proposals with multi-telescope runs and their rankings if available)
• Gem-N Queue Ranking Statistics
• Gem-S Queue Ranking Statistics
• Initial Merged Competition Lists (PDF) (used at Merging TAC on Friday, May 9)
• pre-DD Merged Competition Lists (PDF) (used at DD Meeting on Monday, May 12)
• Progress Reports and Scheduling Preferences for Ongoing Programs (PDF)

Archived Proposals

• Proposal Lists by Semester: (2006A)   (2006B)   (2007A)   (2007B)   (2008A)

NOAO Proposal Information

• NOAO Observing Information
• NOAO Policies for Allocation of Observing Time
• Guidelines Used for Assigning Panels and Lead Reviewers
• NOAO Telescopes/Instruments Available (includes links to instrument manuals, etc.)
• Approved Proposals/Abstracts:   (2003B)   (2004A)   (2004B)   (2005A)   (2005B)   (2006A)   (2006B)   (2007A)   (2007B)   (2008A)

Reference Links

• NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
• LANL arXiv.org Preprint Server (astro-ph)

Local Information

• Onsite Internet Access
• Tucson Visitor Information
• Travel Expense Form

NOAO is operated by the Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.

NOAO >   TAC Home

webmaster@noao.edu