This is just to alert 2Q2004 observers that the scheduling requests for the coming quarter have turned out to be uncommonly difficult and incompatible in a variety of ways: large oversubscription of first halves early in the quarter, a large number of highly restrictive scheduling requests, many partial half night programs that do not mesh well with each other or more conventional requests, shutdown starting on June 28 plus the usual confusion generated by programs with TAC allocations that do not match their scheduling requirements and so forth. The prelim schedule is still under construction and perhaps will turn out better than I expect at this point, but I am fairly certain that a significant number of programs will not get what they wanted/needed. No one needs to take any action in this regard now; this is just so that you are forewarned and to suggest that you have a close look at your programs schedule when the draft schedule does appear. Ed Turner APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 750 in the apo35-general archive. You can find APO the archive on http://www.astro.princeton.edu/APO/apo35-general/INDEX.html APO To join/leave the list, send mail to apo35-request@astro.princeton.edu APO To post a message, mail it to apo35-general@astro.princeton.edu APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO