Calls
April 2018
Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for Community Scientists in the PLATO mission
Deadline: 26/04/2018 The ESA solicits proposals for Community Scientists in the PLATO mission. This AO is open to scientists affiliated with institutes located in ESA Member States. Scientists involved in the PLATO Mission [...]
Call for the next generation of instruments for the Gran Telescopio Canarias
GRANTECAN opens a call for ideas for science instruments for the GTC to insure its scientific competitiveness from ~2025 on. Currently, GRANTECAN is implementing the GTC instrumentation plan approved in 2013. The [...]
March 2018
Propuestas de observación para el CAT nocturno del IAC
Deadline 03/04/2018: The Spanish Time Allocation (CAT) of the Canarian Observatories announces the availability of observing time on GTC, WHT, INT, TNG, NOT, LT, Stella, and Mercator for the [...]
CAHA Call for Proposals
Deadline: 04/04/2018 Calar Alto Observatory announces the Call for Proposals for the Autumn Semester 2018 (July 1 - December 31) for the 3.5m and 2.2m telescopes: For the [...]
Spanish Guaranteed Observing Time at 2.2m telescope of CAHA
Deadline: 04/04/2018 Up to 16 nights during the second semester of 2018 (1 July - 31 December) are available. The application deadline is 4 April 2017, 23:59 CEST (the same [...]
February 2018
OAJ Call for Proposals – Semester 2018B
Deadline: 15 March, 2018 The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) has opened the Call for Proposals for Semester 2018B (1st July - 31st December, 2018). The deadline for proposal submissions is [...]
January 2018
2018-2019 Night Time – CCI International Time Programme
Deadline : 28/02/2018 The International Scientific Committee (CCI) of the Roque de los Muchachos (ORM, La Palma) and Teide (OT, Tenerife) observatories invites applications for International Time Programmes (ITP) on [...]
European VLBI Network Call for Proposals
Deadline: 1 February 2018 Observing proposals are invited for the EVN, a VLBI network of radio telescopes spread throughout Europe and beyond, operated by an international consortium of institutes. The Joint Institute for VLBI [...]
December 2017
IAC Director Discretionary Time (DDT) and the Service Time at Observatorios de Canarias
The GAS (Grupo de Astronomos de Soporte del IAC) reminds that, other than the biannual call for proposal managed by the CAT (Comisión de Asignación de Tiempo nocturno en los Telescopios de Canarias), [...]
Special call for Stella-SES proposals – 2018A
Deadline: 19/12/2017 The night Time Allocation Committee (CAT) of the Telescopes on the Canary Islands announces the special call for proposals requiring the SES instrument on STELLA. This special call corresponds to semester 2018A. [...]
November 2017
Yebes Observatory 40-m Telescope. Call for Proposals.
Deadline: 04/12/2017 The Observatory of Yebes announces the Call for Proposals to observe with the 40 m radiotelescope for the first semester of 2018 ( January 1st - June 30th, 2018) in single-dish [...]
August 2017
Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre Call for Proposals
Deadline: 15 September 2017 The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) has opened the Call for Proposals for Semester 2018A (1st January - 30th June, 2017). The deadline for proposal submissions is [...]
July 2017
MAGIC observing time
Deadline: 3rd November 2017 The MAGIC collaboration encourages individual external scientists to propose observations to be performed with the MAGIC telescopes. Observation time will be granted by the Time [...]
May 2017
Observing time with the INT and Mercator telescopes
Deadline: June 11th 2017 The Spanish night Time Allocation Committee (CAT) of the Observatories on the Canary Islands announces the special call for proposals for observing time with [...]
April 2017
CAHA call for proposals
Deadline: 05/04/2017 Description: Autumn Semester 2017 Calar Alto Observatory announces the Call for Proposals for the Spring Semester 2017 (July 1 - December 31) for the 3.5m and 2.2m telescopes: For the 3.5m telescope, 33 [...]
Calls for proposals at the 10.4m GTC telescope
Deadline: 03/04/2017 Description: The following two calls for proposals at the 10.4mGTC telescope are open: A regular call for semester 2017B (1 Sep 2017- 28 Feb 2018); A special call for the use of the near-IR [...]
ING Observing Time
Deadline: 03/04/2017 Description: IGN announcement of opportunity for observing time in semester 2017B The semester 2017B announcement of opportunity for observing time at the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes on La Palma can be found [...]
March 2017
Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre Call for Proposals
Deadline: 15/03/2017 Description: Semester 2017B The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) announces its first Call for Proposals for Semester 2017B (1st July - 31st December, 2017). The deadline for proposal submissions is March 15th at [...]
Reuniones Abiertas patrocinadas por la RIA
(we apologize, this information is only available in Spanish) Deadline: 31/03/2017 La Red de Infraestructuras de Astronomía abre una nueva convocatoria para la presentación de propuestas para realizar Reuniones Abiertas [...]
Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre Call for Proposals
Deadline: 15/03/2017 The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) announces its first Call for Proposals for Semester 2017B (1st July - 31st December, 2017). The deadline for proposal submissions is March [...]
CAHA Call for Proposals
Deadline: 05/04/2017 Calar Alto Observatory announces the Call for Proposals for the Spring Semester 2017 (July 1 - December 31) for the 3.5m and 2.2m telescopes: For the [...]
Fly Your Satellite! programme
Deadline: 05/03/2017 Description: Would you like the opportunity to build and test your own small satellite with the support of real space professionals? Can you imagine having the small satellite you have tirelessly worked [...]
February 2017
Calls for proposals at the 10.4m GTC telescope
Deadline: 03/04/2017 The following two calls for proposals at the 10.4mGTC telescope are open: A regular call for semester 2017B (1 Sep 2017- 28 Feb 2018); A special call for the [...]
Call for night-time observing proposals at IAC
Deadline: 03/04/2017 The 2017B Spanish night CAT call for proposals for the Canarian Observatories is now available and proposals are due on April 3rd, at 17 h Canarian time [...]
ING Observing Time
Deadline: 03/04/2017 Description: IGN announcement of opportunity for observing time in semester 2017B The semester 2017B announcement of opportunity for observing time at the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes on [...]