The ESO Observing Programmes Committee - an Evolving Process

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Sep 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000msngr.101...37w&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, vol. 101, p. 37-39

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The Universe and its contents are evolving, but our tools to study the heavens at ESO are evolving at a much more rapid pace. The task of the Observing Programmes Committee (OPC) is each semester to recommend to the Director General among the typically 700 proposals introduced by the community those which are thought to lead to the best science with the available instrumentation. It is a challenging task, but also a gratifying one, since it continually confronts one with the rich scientific imagination of the ESO community. This community also frequently expresses its curiosity about the OPC procedures and criteria to rank the observing proposals. The information which is currently posted on the ESO web site might not be detailed enough on the procedures, which in fact recently underwent some changes which needed discussion within the committee before being implemented. The purpose of this contribution is then to explain to the community in some detail how the OPC currently operates.

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