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

To apply for CfA time on these telescopes, the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithonian must be your primary affiliation and you must be resident at a CfA facility. CfA staff on leave or sabbatical may also apply for time. Please

• 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 trimester (for Mt. Hopkins MMT and Ridge) or semester (for Magellan).
• 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

09/03/2021: 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