JWST Proposal Preparation Workshop Prague

The release date of the JWST Cycle 1 GO (General Observers) Call for Proposals is January 23, 2020 and the deadline for APT (Astronomers Proposal Tool) proposal submission is May 1, 2020. The intention of this JWST workshop is to get local astronomers and scientists with specific scientific questions prepared to develop technical feasible and promising proposals.

Topics: JWST mission status and instruments: NIRCam, NIRSpec, NIRISS, MIRI, Available proposal tools and end-to-end tools usage, Available observing science modes and observing strategies: Imaging, Integral Field Spectroscopy, Multi Object Spectroscopy, Slit spectroscopy, Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy, Coronagraphy, Time Series Observations, Aperture Masking Interferometry, Moving Targets, Parallels.