8 March 2022

2022B NASA IRTF Call for Proposals

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 2022B semester (1 August 2022 to 31 January 2023) is Friday, 1 April 2022. See our online submission form, which is available for proposal submission from 12:00 am on 1 March until 5:00 pm HST on 1 April 2022.

Available instruments include:

  1. SpeX, a 0.7–5.3 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;
  3. iSHELL, a 1.1–5.3 micron cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph (up to R = 75,000) and imager.

Information on available facility and visitor instruments and performance can be found on the IRTF website.  

Exposure time calculators for SpeX and iSHELL are available on the respective instrument web pages. 

Call for Proposals Web Page