Available Facilities
The list below is taken from the latest Call for Proposals.
The list of available instruments through NOIRLab can be found here.
Selected telescopes and instruments. Symbols are color-coded by wavelength (IR, visible, or both). The diameter of the telescope, in meters, on which each instrument is deployed is shown below the name, increasing from left to right. Instruments are categorized as either survey imagers (wide field of view), low-resolution or multi-object spectrographs, high-resolution or precision radial velocity spectrographs, integral field spectrographs that utilize AO, imagers that utilize AO, or interferometers or other combined-beam instruments. The largest symbols represent instruments that use light from more than one telescope (LBT and VLT). Those with lighter shading are still under development. Not all instruments could fit into the chart.
Facility | Telescope |
Approximate nights available for new standard 2023B programs |
Additional Information |
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Gemini |
8m Gemini North 8m Gemini South 8m Subaru (through time exchange) |
66 49 ~3 |
https://www.gemini.edu/observing/phase-i/standard-semester-program/2023b-call-proposals |
CTIO | 4m Blanco | 100 | https://noirlab.edu/science/programs/ctio |
SOAR | 4.2m SOAR | 31 | https://noirlab.edu/science/programs/ctio/telescopes/soar-telescope/about |
SMARTS |
1.5m 0.9m |
NN-EXPLORE 300 hrs + 180 hrs for regular programs 12 |
http://www.astro.gsu.edu/~thenry/SMARTS/ |
WIYN |
3.5m WIYN 0.9m |
37 (NNEXPLORE) 0 |
https://www.wiyn.org/ |
CHARA |
6 x 1m aperture interferometer |
45 | http://www.chara.gsu.edu/public/instrumentation/ |
LCO |
Global telescope network of 1m and 2m telescopes |
1250 hrs (1m) 200 hrs (2m) |
https://lco.global/astronomers/ |
Keck 1 Keck 2 |
10m 10m |
3 2 |
https://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/observing/instavail.html |
MINERVA-Australis | 0.7m x 5 | 300 hrs | https://www.usq.edu.au/hes/school-of-mathematics-physics-and-computing/mt-kent-observatory |
Magellan (Clay + Baade) |
6.5m | 5 (total) | https://obs.carnegiescience.edu/astronomers |
Updated on June 13, 2024, 5:40 am