Remember... Poopsy is dead. Long live Northstar@CFHT!

It all started with Semester 2010B... CFHT adapted the Northstar Phase 1 tool written initially for the Radionet community. Northstar has been ported to CFHT and modified in house to handle our specific requirements. You can access this new Phase 1 tool here.

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Information on 2012A      [1 Feb 2012 - 31 Jul 2012]

The 2012A share of observing time is not firmly established yet. It should not differ by more than a few nights from the following numbers:

Canada: up to 24 nights (outside the current Large Programs)

France: up to 24 nights (outside the current Large Programs)

Hawaii: 21 nights

Taiwan: 8 nights

Brazil: 8 nights

China: 8 nights

European astronomers can also apply through the Opticon Access Program on the French time allocation, but must use the OPTICON proposal system with a deadline of 1200 UT on 31 August 2011.

In 2012A, MegaCam, WIRCam and ESPaDOnS are offered in queued service mode and Pueo (the adaptive optics bonnette) with KIR is available in classical mode. For more information about these instruments (especially on the availibility of narrow band filters for WIRCam), please follow the links in the navigation bar on the left of this page.

For information about the relative priority of PI programs and Large programs, please see the recommendation from the SAC (Nov. 2009).

Information on previous semesters

If you wonder about the pressure on telescope time, the relative requests on the main instruments, the chances of your proposal per instrument for your community, you can have a look at some graphs for past rounds of proposals here.

Good luck!