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The request submission rules for observations of the large telescopes of the SAO RAS

Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS.

The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant.

According to the Regulations of the Observational Data Archives (in Russian) of the SAO RAS,
1) exclusive copyrite of using the data is held by the program applicant for 2 years;
2) after the expiry of this term, the data lose the status being exclusive and can be used unrestrictive with obligatory references to the source they were borrowed from.

Every applicant is free to contact the secretary of the Committee (request@sao.ru) if any questions arise in connection with the request submission.

Brief instruction for request form filling

1. Program title (not more than 15 words)
2. Brief (not more than 100 words) description of the scientific content of the program.
3. Full name of the principal investigator, institution (1 person).
4. Full names of co-investigators, institution (no limitation).
5. Request status: long-term (more than two years), short-term (1-2 years), or one-time program.
6. Amount of time needed, optimum and admissible periods of observations. Can the program be combined with other programs? Is this the principal or duplicating program? The applicant should bear in mind that a combined program is the one united with others to be accopmlished by the same techniques or in the other focus of the telescope not to interfere with each other. The duplicating program is fulfilled under bad weather conditions (seeing, etc.) or in the twilight as supplementary with respect to principal one.
7. Mode of observations. Please, give a detailed description of equipment, light detectors, S/N -ratio, spectral or/and time resolution recording systems and others. The description of of observing methods, proposed by SAO RAS can be found here. The applicant can propose a guest mode of observation. In this case coordination with the administration of SAO is needed.
   In case questions arise, one has to address people in charge of the observing method for the Program Committee Executive Secretary (request@sao.ru).
8. Scientific justification (a detailed on is encouraged). Publications on the the topic of the request can be provided.
9. Substantiate use of the 6-m telescope and proposed methods of observations A brief description of methods is desirable.
10. Indicate coordinates and stellar magnitudes of the program objects.
11. For the continued program, give information about its fulfillment and results obtained. Attach publications and/or report on the paper in the press or being prepared for press.
12. Please, provide information about the results of observations with the Large telescope for other programs, which have been obtained over the past 3 years (list of publications, reports, accounts etc.).