JAC Style guide: template
 Flexible Scheduling for Semester 96B
At the December meeting of the ITAC it was agreed that up to 50% of semester 96B would be allocated to
flexibly scheduled applications, many of these to be conducted via serviced observing.
To this end the PATT3 telescope application form has been redesigned, yet again, and applicants are
requested to access and use the new version which can be obtained from the JCMT homepage on the
World-Wide Web.
Additional template forms are being constructed for circulation to those Principal Investigators who succeed
in getting an award of time for semester 96B but whose observations are to be made via serviced observing
by JAC staff. These forms will request more complex details about sources, instrument tunings and
observing techniques than the standard PATT3 application form.
In the case of the Netherlands community, the process of flexible scheduling has been in operation for the
duration of semester 95B (and is continuing through semester 96A) with only minor problems and
difficulties. Most applications are being completed by Remo Tilanus and/or Fred Baas with only the
occasional assistance from a visiting observer.
For semester 96B it is the intention to expand this scheme to encompass a large fraction of the Canadian
applications and a number of UK applications. Many of the International applications are already
completed via serviced mode.
Graeme Watt, JAC, (ITAC Tech Sec)
Last Modification Date 1996/04/08 - Last Modification Author: Graeme Watt (gdw)
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