CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE NASA INFRARED TELESCOPE FACILITY (IRTF)

DEADLINE: 1 October 2003

Proposals for observing time on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility for
the February 1, 2004 through July 31, 2004 semester are due Wednesday,
October 1, 2003, 5:00 P.M. Hawaii Standard Time.

See our web site at http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/userSupport/indexota.html
for instructions. Please submit your proposals using this latest version
(rev. July 2003). Postscript or Portable Document Format (PDF) files may
be submitted by anonymous FTP transfer to the IRTF following the instructions.

Please note that we now allow only ONE PAGE for the Scientific Justification.

Tip-tilt is no longer available. It will be replaced by the Adaptive
Optics System (AOS).

Remote observing from Hilo, Hale Pohaku, or your own office is available
with SpeX, NSFCAM and CSHELL. If you wish to observe from your home
institution, you MUST comply with the requirements for video conferencing
and instrument operation provided on the Remote Observers Information page
http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/userSupport/remote_obs/. New users of SpeX,
NSFCAM and CSHELL should plan to observe from the summit for their first
run to work with their support astronomer and become familiar with the
instrument operation. Observers already familiar with the instrument and
who want to observe remotely from their home institution are strongly
encouraged to contact Miranda Hawarden-Ogata (hawarden@...)
to set up a test of the video link and user interface at least one month
prior to their observing run. We cannot guarantee remote observing on
short notice since we have no control of hardware and software
compatibility on the user's side.

Observers should read the information on the current IRTF instrument
complement and visitor instruments, available on a collaborative basis, may
be found on the Web at
http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/Facility/

Facility instruments include: SpeX (1-5 micron spectrograph), NSFCAM (1-5
micron camera), and CSHELL (1-5 micron high-resolution
spectrograph). Other instruments that are available on a collaborative
basis with the instrument team include: MIRSI (8-26 micron camera; contact
Joseph Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA at jhora@...), TEXES (5-20
micron high-resolution spectrograph; contact Matt Richter at
richter@...) for more information), BASS (3-14 micron
spectrometer; contact David Lynch at david.k.lynch@...), CELESTE (5-25
micron echelle spectrometer; contact Don Jennings at
u3dej@...), and HIPWAC (9-12 micron heterodyne
spectrometer; contact Ted Kostiuk at kostiuk@...).

To keep our bibliography up to date, we ask that you send us your latest
publications or update your publications list using our website
http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/biblio/, or e-mail hughes@...