The schedule has actually been up on the web for the past week, sorry for the late notice. For schedule changes (including time trades, ToOs, and open/DD requests) during Q3, please contact Russet McMillan, Mark Klaene and Rene Walterbos (copied above) as I will be out of the office and unavailable starting June 25 until mid-August. Suzanne Hawley ARC 3.5m Director Apache Point Observatory ------------------------------------------ ARC 3.5M SCHEDULE FOR 3rd QUARTER 2012 S.Hawley, R.McMillan 06/12/2012 NOTES: ***PLEASE READ*** Except in cases where strong science drivers dictate otherwise (a minority of cases), observing time has again been scheduled in half night blocks. There are 92 nights, or 184 half nights, in 3Q2012. Summer shutdown (EN02) is scheduled for 18 nights (36 half nights) from July 23 - Aug 9. Regular engineering (EN01) time is scheduled for 4 nights (8 half nights), all bright. Engineering time thus takes 44 half nights in Q3, broken down as 34B, 4G, 6D, and comprising 23.9% of the total. DD time consists of 10 half nights, 5.4% of the total. Computing 184 - 44 - 10 leaves 130 half nights for allocation by the institutions, which break down as 48B, 21G and 61D. In addition to scheduled engineering time, science observations may be pre-empted, sometimes on short notice, for urgent engineering tasks. Such tasks include both work that is required to safeguard observatory personnel or facilities and that allows "hot pursuit" of some significant problem. Please see links off of the APO home page (http://www.apo.nmsu.edu/) for a web based interactive version of this schedule. There are 5 half nights of DD (DD03) time and 4 (2 partial) half nights of OPEN time in the initial version of the Q3 2012 schedule. ----- EN Note: No science observations scheduled during EN time. ----- EN01 = EN01 Klae X W Routine periodic engineering time. EN02 = EN01 Klae X W Shutdown for summer maintenance ----- DD Note: Director's Discretionary Time ----- DD01 = Q312DD01 Murp A O DD02 = Q312DD02 Wood FD R DD03 = DD03 TBD TBD TBD ----- CU Note: 12.5% share ----- CU01 = CU01 Darl D R (B400+R300) CU02 = CU02 Keen SD R (high, custom) CU03 = CU03 Stri ET R CU04 = CU04 Gins T R CU05 = CU05 Youn T R CU06 = CU06 Wehr DS R (R300) ----- JHU Note: 8.0% share ----- JH01.O = JH01 Thil D O (B1200+R1200) JH01.R = JH01 Thil D R (B1200+R1200) JH02.S = JH02 Gral S R (SDSS) JH02.N = JH02 Gral N R JH03 = JH03 Mort D R (B1200+R1200) JH04 = JH04 Kais ETD R (B1200+R1200) JH05 = JH05 Kost D R (B1200+R1200) JH06 = JH06 Tsve E R ----- NMSU Note: 15.625% share ----- NM01 = NM01 Chan P R (VRIriz) NM02 = NM02 McKa ET R NM03 = NM03 Gray ET R NM04 = NM04 Chan ET R NM05 = NM05 Gaul E R NM06 = NM06 Gray ET R NM07 = NM08 Ketz ET W NM08 = NM08 Feui E R ----- PU Note: 15.625% share ----- PU01 = PU01 Blak D R (both) PU02.S = PU02 Hill S R (SDSS) PU02.N = PU02 Hill N R PU03 = PU03 Gree D R (B1200+R1200) PU04 = PU04 Kasl D R (B400+R300) PU05.O = PU05 Hart E O PU05.R = PU05 Hart E R PU06 = PU06 Prie DT R (B400+R300) ----- UC Note: 17.0% share ----- UC01 = UC01 York DF R (B400+R300) UC02 = UC02 John D R (B400+R300) UC03 = UC03 Gyuk ST R (SDSS) UC04 = UC04 Glad TN R UC05 = UC05 More D R (B400+R300) UC06 = UC06 York ED R (B400+R300) ----- UV Note: 6.25% share ----- UV01 = UV01 Verb T R UV02 = UV02 Wils T R UV03 = UV03 Verb S R (r) UV04 = UV04 Skru T R UV05 = UV05 Jone T O UV06 = UV06 Bori T R UV07 = UV07 Hamm D R (B1200+R1200) ----- UW Note: 25.0% share ----- UW01 = UW01 Hawl DENP O UW02 = UW02 Szko E R UW03 = UW03 Ball DT R (B1200+R1200) UW04 = UW04 Chri E O UW05 = UW05 Ruan D R (B400+R300) UW06 = UW06 Wisn E R UW07 = UW07 Muka P R (BG40) UW08 = UW08 Ande D R (B1200) UW09 = UW09 Silv D R (B1200+R1200) UW10 = UW10 Ritc E R UW11 = UW11 Hugh S R (CRIvby) UW12 = UW12 Hugh S R (uvby) UW13 = UW13 Murp A O +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MOST PROGRAMS ARE SCHEDULED IN HALF NIGHT BLOCKS. THE FIRST HALF OF EACH NIGHT EXTENDS FROM SUNSET UNTIL 0110 MDT. THE SECOND HALF FOLLOWS UNTIL SUNRISE. FIRST HALF IS INDICATED BELOW AS "A"; THE SECOND, AS "B". THIS QUARTER SEVEN PROGRAMS USE NON-BLOCK SCHEDULING. INSTRUMENT CHANGE TIMES ARE NOT INCLUDED BELOW BUT WILL BE INDICATED IN THE SCHEDULE ISSUED FROM APO AND WILL BE SHARED BETWEEN ADJOINING PROGRAMS AS USUAL. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 07/1 A: UC04/CU03 B: UW13/UC06 07/2 A: JH06/CU03 B: NM08 07/3 A: UV06/CU03 B: UC04 07/4 A: UW12/CU03 B: CU05 07/5 A: NM08/CU03 B: UV04 07/6 A: PU05.O/CU03 B: PU05.O 07/7 A: NM04/NM07 B: PU05.O 07/8 A: NM04/NM07 B: CU05/UW13 07/9 A: PU01/NM07 B: JH05 07/10 A: UC01/NM07 B: UC06 07/11 A: UC01/NM07 B: OPEN 07/12 A: UC01 B: OPEN 07/13 A: UC01 B: UC01/JH01.R[03:57-04:57]/UW13 07/14 A: PU06 B: UC03 07/15 A: UW05 B: PU04/NM06 07/16 A: UW11 B: PU02.S 07/17 A: DD03 B: OPEN/NM03 07/18 A: DD03 B: UV07 07/19 A: UC05 B: OPEN/NM06 07/20 A: DD03 B: UW07 07/21 A: PU03 B: PU04/NM03 07/22 A: UW05 B: PU02.S 07/23 A: EN02 B: EN02 07/24 A: EN02 B: EN02 07/25 A: EN02 B: EN02 07/26 A: EN02 B: EN02 07/27 A: EN02 B: EN02 07/28 A: EN02 B: EN02 07/29 A: EN02 B: EN02 07/30 A: EN02 B: EN02 07/31 A: EN02 B: EN02 08/1 A: EN02 B: EN02 08/2 A: EN02 B: EN02 08/3 A: EN02 B: EN02 08/4 A: EN02 B: EN02 08/5 A: EN02 B: EN02 08/6 A: EN02 B: EN02 08/7 A: EN02 B: EN02 08/8 A: EN02 B: EN02 08/9 A: EN02 B: EN02/UW13 08/10 A: UW11 B: JH02.N/UW13 08/11 A: UW09 B: UW05 08/12 A: UW03 B: DD03 08/13 A: DD03 B: UC03 08/14 A: JH03 B: PU06 08/15 A: UW03 B: CU01 08/16 A: UV07 B: JH03 08/17 A: NM02 B: UC02 08/18 A: CU06 B: JH02.S 08/19 A: PU01 B: CU01 08/20 A: NM02 B: PU04/NM06 08/21 A: UC03 B: DD02 08/22 A: DD02 B: DD02 08/23 A: DD01/NM02 B: UC02 08/24 A: DD01/PU05.R B: JH02.S 08/25 A: NM07/UW10 B: NM05 08/26 A: CU04 B: NM05 08/27 A: DD01/NM08/DD01 B: PU02.N 08/28 A: EN01 B: EN01 08/29 A: EN01 B: EN01 08/30 A: CU04 B: PU05.R 08/31 A: CU05 B: DD01/UC04 09/1 A: JH04 B: UW06 09/2 A: CU04 B: NM05 09/3 A: UW10 B: NM05 09/4 A: UC04 B: UV02 09/5 A: JH04 B: UW09 09/6 A: UV03 B: UW06/DD01 09/7 A: UW01 B: NM08 09/8 A: NM01 B: UW01/DD01 09/9 A: UW01 B: UW08 09/10 A: PU01 B: CU02 09/11 A: NM05 B: UC03/DD01 09/12 A: NM05 B: PU04[01:10-03:10]/PU02.S 09/13 A: UW03 B: UC02 09/14 A: CU01 B: UW08 09/15 A: UW07 B: CU02 09/16 A: UW03 B: UC02 09/17 A: JH01.O B: CU01 09/18 A: UW07 B: PU04[01:10-02:10]/PU02.S 09/19 A: UW02 B: UW02 09/20 A: UW02 B: UW02 09/21 A: DD01/UV05 B: CU01 09/22 A: UV05 B: CU02 09/23 A: NM07/NM08 B: UC02 09/24 A: EN01 B: EN01 09/25 A: EN01 B: EN01 09/26 A: UC06 B: UW04 09/27 A: PU05.R/DD01 B: UV01 09/28 A: UW12 B: UW04 09/29 A: UC04 B: PU02.N 09/30 A: JH06 B: UW06 APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 1275 in the apo35-general archive. 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