Observing Proposals for MMT, Magellan and FLWO telescopes
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Create and manage Observing Proposals for
- FLWO: 1.2-meter and 1.5-meter Telescopes
- MMT 6.5-meter Telescope
- Magellan 6.5-meter Baade and Clay Telescopes
- Check out our proposal policies here.
- Check instrument status to make sure the one you want to use is available.
- Check out our observing policies here.
- You will have access to all CfA proposals previously entered to this system.
- Changes may be made to any of your current proposals until the deadline. There is a "Submit" button now. Only submitted proposal will be taken into account.
- Information from a web form is immediately used to build a proposal cover page and errors are reported back to you so that they may be corrected before the proposal is finalized.
- You can view any of your proposals as Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files the way the TAC will see them.
- The TAC ranks submitted proposals 3-4 weeks after the proposal deadline.
- Telescope schedules should be available approximately one month before the beginning of each semester.
- If you are new to TDCApply, please read this help page.
- If the online help doesn't answer your questions, email them to the Telescope Data Center Staff.
Changes
09/23/2021: Institutions buying observing nights can now register and add their proposals.
05/05/2021: Automatic emails are sent to proposers when their proposals have
been accepted for scoring. FAQ added to Help
09/03/2021: Submit and clone link added to "Your proposals". Free text "Instrument config."
replaces instrument mode, grid, central wavelength and slitwith. Abstract and
Instrument config have a word counter at the lower right.
02/09/2021: submit reminder added to "Your proposals" and proposal update page
02/08/2021: added telescope and instrument to "Your proposals", instrument mode is no longer enforced