Dear Colleagues,

With this extraordinary call the Istituto di Radioastronomia offers observing
time with its telescopes at Medicina and Noto for the rest of the current
semester to May 31, 2012.

Both antennas can be employed as single dishes for spectroscopic and
continuum observations.
The antenna at Noto has undergone major maintenance work and is now under test
which is expected to be completed by the end of March. For the remaining two
months of the on-going semester proposals for Noto can be submitted.
At Medicina, a new K-band double-horn receiver will be commissioned
and should become operative in the period between mid April and mid May.
Only proposals requiring the 22-GHz receiver can be accepted

Further details on the submission procedure and characteristics of the
instruments currently available can be found at
http://www.ira.inaf.it/Observing/Observing_time_extra.html.

The proposals will be peer-reviewed and should be submitted before midnight of
March 1, 2012.

Best regards,
Luigina Feretti