3 March 2021
Call for Proposals for the NASA IRTF
Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
NASA IRTF, MKOCN
The due date for proposals to use NASA's 3-meter Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Maunakea for the 2021B semester (1 August 2021 to 31 January 2022) is Thursday, 1 April 2021. An online form is available for proposal submission until 5:00 pm HST on 1 April.
Available facility instruments include the following:
- SpeX, a 1- to 5-micron cross-dispersed medium-resolution spectrograph (up to R = 2,500) and imager;
- MORIS, a 512 x 512 pixel Andor CCD camera (60" x 60" field of view) mounted at the side-facing window of the SpeX cryostat that can be used simultaneously with SpeX; and
- iSHELL, a 1.1– to 5.3-micron cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph (up to R = 70,000) and imager.
More information on available instruments and their performance can be found on the IRTF web page.