Mmm. With 48 hours to go for the extended Hubble proposal deadline, about 360 new proposals have been received.
A lot of these will be reworked ACS proposals, noting that if they only get 4-10 times more orbits, they could mostly do what the ACS could do with, but with WFPC2...
And some will be innovative and important proposals to use NICMOS or WFPC2 to do science of lasting value... ;-)
UPDATE: if I read the latest correctly, they offset the phase I proposal numbers, so that the late proposals start at 1000 - in which case only just over 100 were in wednesday night. Which seems plausible. We'll see how high we get tonight.
Anyone have numbers between 800 and 999?
Proposed budget for NASA for '08 came out, I have read it, I will comment.
It is bad and good.
A notable omission - there is no line item funding for Astrobiology or the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
Just a side line mentioning that Planetary Science R&A can fund astrobiology.
There is also the Astrobiology Field Lab for Mars, and Exploration notes the usefulness of the Constellation launchers in doing astrobiology. Really.
I have not yet begun to propose!
Seriously, the flurry of NICMOS programs is impressive. Cycle 16 should be renamed Cycle 1.6
You mean 6.6?
NICMOS is one of them latecomer newfangled instruments, specially now that the crooked dewar is not needed.
Some of us really miss the high speed photometer!
PS you still got like over 24 hours, probably should start drafting something before midnight though, to be on the safe side.