Available Facilities
The list below is taken from the latest Call for Proposals.
The list of available instruments through NOIRLab can be found here.
| Facility | Telescope |
Approximate nights available for new standard 2022B programs |
Additional Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini |
8m Gemini North 8m Gemini South 8m Subaru (through time exchange) |
69 56 ~3
|
https://www.gemini.edu/observing/phase-i/standard-semester-program/2023a-call-proposals |
| CTIO | 4m Blanco | 100 | https://noirlab.edu/science/programs/ctio |
| SOAR | 4.2m SOAR | 49 | 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 |
35 (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 |
2 3 |
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 |