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UW Time Allocation and Scheduling

PROPOSALS

Most Recent Call for Proposals: 1st annoucement; 2nd annoucement
UW WIYN Proposal Form: 2008B (LaTeX)

SCHEDULES

WIYN Pre-Scheduled Blocks:	[2001A] [2001B] [2002A] [2002B] [2003A] [2003B] [2004A] [2004B] [2005A] [2005B]
UW Allocated Time, Observing Schedule and ORP:	[2001A] [2001B] [2002A] [2002B] [2003A] [2003B] [2004A] [2004B] [2005A] [2005B]

Scheduling: Guidelines for NOAO and University Time -- old
Time Allocation and Scheduling Procedures UW-Madison -- old

Instrument Specifications

Telescope: circa 1997
IMAGING
- Mini-Mosaic Imager
  - Manual: [postscript] [html] Revised, 27 November 2001: [GZIPPED PS file]
  - MiniMo Commissioning Report
    + Abi Saha's notes on reducing MINIMO data
    + Bad pixel masks (look for 'mimobpmX.pl' files)
    + Having problems registering the 4 planes of your MiniMo image? See this.
  - WIYN Arcon-IRAF Interface User's Guide (Beta v0.6)
  - Direct Imaging Logsheet [pdf]
  - KPNO+WIYN filter ftp directroy
    - WIYN filter index
    - KPNO filter index
  - Selected UBVRI Photometric Standard Stars from Landolt 1992, AJ, 104, 340
- WTTM: WIYN Tip-Tilt Module
  - Manual (PDF format) (HTML format)
  - Commissioning Report (HTML format)
  - WIYN Adaptive Optics
- OPTIC - check for availability
  - Manual (pdf)
SPECTROSCOPY
- Bench Spectrograph
  - Bench and Hydra Users Manual v4: [HTML] [pdf] [old Manual]
  - 740 l/mm VPH grating for Bench Spectrograph (Shared risk 2005B)
  - Bench Logsheet [PDF format]
  - DensePak
    - Manual
    - local information
    - CassIAS Users Manual (pdf)
  - SparsePak
  - The Multi-Fiber Feed (old, local summary)
    + Hydra Concentricities

Operations and User Support

WIYN Remote Observing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
WIYN Observing Run Preparation Form
WIYN User Handbook -- out of date

Instrument Development

UW
- Bench Upgrade - PI: M. Bershady
- WHIRC - PI: E. Churchwell
Yale
- WIYN High-Throughput Slit Spectrograph (WHTSS) - PI: J. Snyder
Consortium
- ODI - PI: G. Jacoby
TBD
- Folded Cass Port
- 2nd Strategic Instrument or other facility-class instrument

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last update: Mar 15, 2008 MAB