Subject: Availability of NICFPS during Q1 2005

From: Suzanne Hawley

Submitted: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 11:10:29 -0800 (PST)

Message number: 850 (previous: 849, next: 851 up: Index)

This message is to announce the availability of NICFPS, the Near Infrared
Camera and Fabry Perot Spectrometer built by the University of Colorado,
for shared risk science operations on the APO 3.5m during Q1 2005. 
Shared risk means that if the instrument needs additional engineering
or commissioning work, your observing time may be pre-empted to 
accommodate that work.  Also there is no guarantee about data quality
during shared risk time.  Feedback to the instrument team about
your observations will be very helpful.  The Colorado instrument team 
will be helping to support the observations during Q1 2005, and to 
facilitate that help we will schedule NICFPS on the telescope only 
during three 1-week blocks of time (one week per month during bright 
time).  The actual amount of time allocated will depend on the number 
of proposals received.

Proposers should submit applications on the usual form through
their institutional scheduling process, and the time will
be assigned as part of the normal institutional bright time. 
The instrument capabilities are (or soon will be) described on the 
NICFPS instrument page, available through the APO homepage at 
http://www.apo.nmsu.edu.  The Colorado NICFPS website, which 
contains more detailed instrument information, is located at
http://nicfps.colorado.edu.

We expect to have TUI operational to run NICFPS remotely by the time
the Q1 2005 observations begin.

Suzanne Hawley
Director (as of Jan 1, 2005)
ARC 3.5m telescope
Apache Point Observatory


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