Deadline: at any time
Following the Announcement of Opportunity ING issued on 21 March 2021, for WHT service-mode prime-focus imaging observations during April and May, ING now extends this opportunity, and invites further applications for observations.
Under this call, ING invites applications for service-mode imaging with a camera (the PF-QHY) mounted behind the new WEAVE prime-focus corrector, during June, July and August. Nearly all of the June nights will be for service-mode imaging. Nights in July and August are shared risk as telescope availability is subject to the (fluid) schedule for WEAVE integration. We will provide updates via SEA mailing list and on ING web pages.
Proposals can be submitted at any time (there is no deadline) and can be for any amount of observing time. Each proposal will be scientifically graded by the relevant national time allocation committee and accepted proposals will then be queued for observation.
The PF-QHY camera is based on a back-illuminated scientific CMOS detector, with 9576 × 6388 3.8-μm pixels, giving a field of view of 10.7′ × 7.1′, at a scale of 0.067 “/pixel, which will be binned 2×2 or 4×4.
The camera is now equipped with a 7-position filter wheel, offering the following filters: Sloan u g r i z and a broad-band (‘clear’) luminance filter L-1 (the 7th position is for a blank, to facilitate taking dark exposures). Autoguiding is available for exposures taken with any of the Sloan filters, but not with the L1 filter.
This opportunity will be of particular interest to PIs requiring high-cadence observations, or observations of targets of opportunity.
Further details:
Under this call, ING invites applications for service-mode imaging with a camera (the PF-QHY) mounted behind the new WEAVE prime-focus corrector, during June, July and August. Nearly all of the June nights will be for service-mode imaging. Nights in July and August are shared risk as telescope availability is subject to the (fluid) schedule for WEAVE integration. We will provide updates via SEA mailing list and on ING web pages.
Proposals can be submitted at any time (there is no deadline) and can be for any amount of observing time. Each proposal will be scientifically graded by the relevant national time allocation committee and accepted proposals will then be queued for observation.
The PF-QHY camera is based on a back-illuminated scientific CMOS detector, with 9576 × 6388 3.8-μm pixels, giving a field of view of 10.7′ × 7.1′, at a scale of 0.067 “/pixel, which will be binned 2×2 or 4×4.
The camera is now equipped with a 7-position filter wheel, offering the following filters: Sloan u g r i z and a broad-band (‘clear’) luminance filter L-1 (the 7th position is for a blank, to facilitate taking dark exposures). Autoguiding is available for exposures taken with any of the Sloan filters, but not with the L1 filter.
This opportunity will be of particular interest to PIs requiring high-cadence observations, or observations of targets of opportunity.
Further details:
- Instrument webpage: http://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/instruments/pf-qhy/
- Service application form: http://catserver.ing.iac.es/service/phase1.php?instrument=PFQHY
- 21 March 2021call: http://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/observing/AO21A_PFQHY.html
