Test 1: Prepare an ESO Proposal
Test 1: Prepare an ESO Proposal
ESO offers a nice range of optical/NIR/radio telescopes. It sounds natural, given the heterogeneity of this group, to suggest writing a proposal for ESO. All the people will have to go through the same process.
The ESO Call for Proposal is here https://www.eso.org/sci/observing/phase1/p106/proposalsopen.html
The deadline for sending the proposal to me (i.e. upload the pdf generated by the system) is 14 April, 23:59, time of Brasilia.
Failing to deliver a proposal will mean mark 0 (zero) in this test.
You get 1 extra point if you submit the proposal.
I will evaluate as follows:
-) 3 points - clarity of the scientific rationale
-) 2 points - clarity of the immediate objective
-) 2 points - clarity of the technical description
-) 1 point - meaningful weather constraints / estimate of the exposure time
-) 1 point - meaningful instrument configuration
Note: I do not give a mark to science but to clarity.
Penalties:
-) 3 points less if you ask for targets not observable during P106 from Paranal
-) you loose point every time you use some sentence which are out of context. E.g., with a title “The role of t3 and FWHM on the MMRD in CNe”, you have already lost points.