INSTITUTIONAL ID NUMBER:

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:

PI:

OBSERVER(S):

UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS:

COLLABORATORS:

CONTACT INFORMATION:

INSTRUMENT:
PRIMARY DIS GRATING:
SECONDARY DIS GRATING (IF REQUIRED):
SLITS/FILTERS/ETC NEEDED:

IS THIS A TARGET OF OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM:
   IF YES, NUMBER OF PREVIOUS TRIGGERS FROM THIS PI:
   IF YES, PUBLICATIONS OF PI FROM APO ToO OBSERVATIONS:
   
REMOTE OR ONSITE:

AMOUNT OF TIME REQUESTED (specify hours or half-nights):
Dark - 
Grey - 
Bright - 

SCIENTIFIC SCHEDULE CONSTRAINTS:

PERSONAL SCHEDULE CONSTRAINTS:

NEED FOR PROTECTION FROM PRE-EMPTION:

BRIEF SCIENCE JUSTIFICATION:

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON APO 3.5m DATA:


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[Proposals should be in the plainest text possible.  Any strange characters may cause the parsing programs to choke.]

INSTITUTIONAL ID NUMBER:
[This line must be in every proposal as it is critical for parsing.  Do not change case or change words.  Usually the observer does not choose the ID number, but the institutional scheduler does.  Occasionally the director assigns the ID number.  But even if it is left blank, this line should be present.]

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:

PI:
[One person, should be affiliated with an ARC member or leasing institution.]

OBSERVER(S):
[At least one person who is on the trained observer list or is planning to observe onsite.  Does not need to be directly affiliated with an ARC institution.]

UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS:
[People who might participate in observations but are not yet certified to run them remotely.  Might include the primary observer if this is a training run.]

COLLABORATORS:
[Interested parties also involved but perhaps not participating in observations.]

CONTACT INFORMATION:
[At least one email address, at least one phone number.  It's okay to substitute other characters in place of @ or - to make these hard for robots to read.  All email addresses included in this section will receive reminder emails.  Please include a phone number good for the location where the primary observer will be working, so we can call in the event of a no-show.]

INSTRUMENT:
PRIMARY DIS GRATING:
SECONDARY DIS GRATING (IF REQUIRED):
SLITS/FILTERS/ETC NEEDED:
[Special setups including nonstandard slits or narrowband filters should be mentioned here in the proposal and listed in detail in the setup request email.]


IS THIS A TARGET OF OPPORTUNITY:
[(Yes or No) Does this program require preempting scheduled observations?

If yes, one dark half must be requested per trigger, program must be remote, and the following questions must also be completed]

   IF YES, NUMBER OF PREVIOUS TRIGGERS FROM THIS PI:
   [Regardless of program, how many times has this PI preempted the observing schedule for a ToO observation]

   IF YES, PUBLICATIONS OF PI FROM APO ToO OBSERVATIONS:
   [Regardless of program, list all publications this PI has produced from ToO observations at APO]

   
REMOTE OR ONSITE:
[If some observations will be onsite and others remote, mention briefly here and put details in the SCIENTIFIC or PERSONAL SCHEDULE CONSTRAINTS sections below]

AMOUNT OF TIME REQUESTED (specify hours or half-nights):
[This section should be edited by the institutional scheduler to reflect actual allocation, not the observer's original request.]
Dark -  [A half-night with less than one hour of moon]
Grey -  [A half-night with more than one hour of moon less than half illuminated]
Bright - [A half-night with more than one hour of moon more than half illuminated]


SCIENTIFIC SCHEDULE CONSTRAINTS:
[Please note which dates are good or bad.  Specify dates as they will be scheduled, by civil date of start of night, even if time is after midnight, and times in Mountain Time.  First half of the night is A, second half of the night is B.  If you must include UT dates or times, label them clearly.

It's okay to give multiple date ranges, such as desirable dates, acceptable dates, and unusable dates.

Target position by itself is not sufficient information for scheduling, since airmass needs may vary.  Target lists are not required, so don't include them if you don't want them published.]

PERSONAL SCHEDULE CONSTRAINTS:
[Times when primary observer or all observers are or are not available.  Please note whether dates listed are good or bad.]

NEED FOR PROTECTION FROM PRE-EMPTION:
[Critical observations for student theses, simultaneous observations with other observatories, or uncommon planetary events may be protected from pre-emption by target of opportunity programs.  Other programs may be pre-empted but will be offered payback time on another date.]

BRIEF SCIENCE JUSTIFICATION:
[Important to institutional schedulers, who may have additional requirements for this section, but can be shortened or simplified for scheduling purposes.  This is a good place to put target names that will later be edited out.]

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON APO 3.5m DATA:
[Also more important to institutional schedulers than to schedulers.]