Subject: NSF ReSTAR committee needs community input

From: Suzanne Hawley

Submitted: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:56:36 -0700 (PDT)

Message number: 1042 (previous: 1041, next: 1043 up: Index)

To members of the 3.5m users community:

As documented in recent 3.5m users committee minutes, the NSF has charged 
a committee (called ReSTAR) with carrying out a survey of the astronomical 
community to assess the interest in supporting scientific programs on 
small and moderate sized (less than 6m) telescopes.  This comes from the 
Senior Review report, and the 3rd Telescope Systems Workshop report, both 
of which highlighted the need for telescopes of this size.  Obviously the 
3.5m falls into this class.  If you have not already done so, please take 
a moment to go to the ReSTAR web page and provide your input.  An NSF 
program that provides funding for telescopes of this size could be an 
attractive option for improving our instrumentation and supporting 
our operations in the future.  The committee web page is located at:

http://www.noao.edu/system/restar

and the form to submit input is linked off that page.  The committee will 
meet next on July 30-31 to consider the input; responses received before 
then will be most likely to be effective.

Suzanne Hawley
Director, ARC 3.5m Telescope

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