3 March 2021

Call for Proposals for the NASA IRTF

Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
NASA IRTF, MKOCN

NASA's 3-meter Infrared Telescope Facility

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:

  1. SpeX, a 1- to 5-micron cross-dispersed medium-resolution spectrograph (up to R = 2,500) and imager;
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Call for Proposals Web Page