... R2038 Date Received: 2006-Nov-01 15:29:31 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Urgent Planetary Radar Solar System 4.5 Hours Radar Observations of Asteroid 325 Heidelberga We request 4.5 hours on Nov 17 and 18 to observe the M-asteroid 325 Heidelberga. ... We will observe Heidelberga near opposition; its detection will provide a radar cross-section and an estimate of its radar albedo. ... Part of the observing run. ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... The Large Telescopes Program Committee of Russian AS . ... Executive Secretary, e-mail: request@sao.ru . Telescope RATAN-600 Time Request deadline: I half-year (Jan. ... Program title .. ... Principal investigator .. ... Request status .. ... Retarded applications and ones not conforming to form will not be accepted by the Committee. ... In some exceptional cases the Program Committee Secretary can accept a request after deadline with permission of the Chairman of Committee or director of SAO RAS. ...

RadioAstron AO-1 prop osal Submission dead line: February 8, 23:59 UT. ... Team contact name and e-mail address: Ivan Petrov (e-mail: Ivan.Peterov@gmail.com ) Total observing time request: 100 hrs Number of independent observing segments and typical range of pro jected baselines required: 20 (3-30 Earth diameters) Specific dates and time intervals requested : If your experiment requires specific dates and UT ranges, please, indicate them: February 1, 2014: 08:00-16:00 UT -- M87 imaging ...

This report describes what an HST observer must do to activate a Target of Opportunity proposal and the steps taken by STScI after the request is received. ... In the request the PI identifies which visit (or visits) to activate and supplies all the information needed to implement and schedule the observation on-board HST. ... If the activation request is not approved, you may re-request it at a later time, until the end of the observing cycle when unexecuted ToO observations are withdrawn. ...

... The term will also start with EW367. ... Given that these systems are still immature, millimetre observations continue to require an ATNF collaborator who is expected to be conversant with their use. Because of summer weather, January term is the worst term for millimetre observing: it is not a millimetre period. ... Following a request from the users' committee, the ATNF now has a formal replacement time policy. ... The data archives managed by the ATNF are a valuable resource to astronomers. ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS02 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Accretion vs Magnetic Reconnection: Determining the Source of Periodic Variability in the Pre-Main Sequence Binary DQ Tau PI: Ben Tofflemire OBSERVER(S): Ben Tofflemire UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: N/A COLLABORATORS: Robert Mathieu CONTACT INFORMATION: tofflemi@astro.wisc.edu TIME REQUESTED: Monday , Oct 27th - Sunday, Nov 3rd (1 week, request use of all 7 full nights) Monday , Jan 12th - Sunday, ...

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