Background Materials for Telescope Proposal Process Workshop

Anglo-Australian Observatory

• Web-based submission system for the AAT

Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.

• Proposal Information and Templates
• Exposure simulator for integral field spectrograph (OASIS) which utilizes adaptive optics system

Canadian National Facilities

• Time allocation on the JCMT
• Time allocation for CFHT

European Southern Observatory (pages updated August 3 1200 CET)

• Phase I proposal information

• The Gemini Observatory Science Operations Plan, Phil Puxley, Fred Gillett, Matt Mountain, Doug Simons, to be published in SPIE Vol. 3349, "Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return" (PostScript version of paper)

Hobby*Eberly Telescope

• LaTeX proposal template for use by University of Texas observers
• LaTeX proposal style file
• HET Phase I planning software (used for creating proposals)

• Planning and Scheduling Software for the Hobby*Eberly Telescope
• Scheduling and Executing Phase II Observing Scripts on the Hobby*Eberly Telescope

McDonald Observatory

• LaTeX proposal template
• LaTeX proposal style file

National Optical Astronomy Observatories

• Web proposal form
• LaTeX template, style file, README file, and other materials by FTP
• TAC grades submission form (login as "test", password="Miles30" - normally each TAC member has his/her own login name and password - for this demo only one account is used so the saved grades could change if more than one person runs this demo at the same time)

• Observing proposals on the Web at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, C. A. Pilachowski, J. Barnes, and D. J. Bell, SPIE meeting March 1998 (PostScript version of paper)
• New database for nighttime programs at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, C. A. Pilachowski and C. Brown, SPIE meeting March 1998 (PostScript version of paper)
• The NOAO Web-based Observing Proposal System, D. J. Bell, J. Barnes, C. Pilachowski, 1998, ADASS VII, ASP Conf. Series, Vol. 145, Editors, R. Albrecht, R. N. Hook and H. A. Bushouse, 288
• Filtering KPNO LaTeX Observing Proposals with Perl, D. J. Bell, 1997, ADASS VI, ASP Conf. Series, Vol. 125, Editors, Gareth Hunt and H. E. Payne, 371
• An Automated System for Receiving KPNO Proposals by Electronic Mail, D. J. Bell, C. D. Biemesderfer, J. Barnes, P. Massey, 1996, ADASS V, ASP Conf. Series, Vol. 101, Editors, George H. Jacoby and Jeannette Barnes, 451

Space Telescope Science Institute

• HST Call for Proposals Page
• Phase I Proposal Processing software

• Electronic Submission of HST Phase I Proposals, Brett Blacker, Glenn Miller, Meg Urry, Harry Payne, and Drew Asson, SPIE International Symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Kona, March 1998 (PDF version of paper)
• Proposal Solicitation and Selection for the 21st Century, Palle Moller, Glenn Miller, Brett Blacker and Meg Urry, SPIE International Symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Kona, March 1998 (PDF version of paper)
• Computer-Assisted Proposal Submission Systems, D. Asson, in Telescope Control Systems, ed. P. Wallace, SPIE Proceedings 2479, pp. 445-452 (PDF version of paper)

Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

• TeX template