The Cycle-6 Call for Proposals (CP) has been released!

New versions of Spot and Leopard (v18) are now available. These are the versions to use to submit Cycle-6 proposals, and to modify approved Cycle-5 programs.

Spitzer led all Great Observatories, and moved up to #9 on the all-time NASA discoveries list, in the 2007 Davidson Science News metric.

Cycle 6 (Spitzer Warm Mission):

• The Cycle-6 Call for Proposals (CP) has been released!
• Email announcement of Cycle-6 CP
• FAQs about Cycle-6
• Spitzer Warm Mission white papers and Workshop presentations
• 211th AAS Meeting Warm Mission presentation

Cycle 5:

• List of approved programs
• Selection statistics

Data and Analysis:

• Spitzer Data Users Should Start Here:
  
  • Download: Spot and Leopard
  • Public Post-BCD Data Webserver: IRSA
  • Instrument Pages: IRAC, MIPS, IRS
  • Pocket Guides: Spitzer, IRAC, MIPS, IRS, Spot, Leopard
  • Instrument Data Features/Caveats: IRAC, MIPS, IRS
  • Instrument Important Notes: IRAC, MIPS, IRS
  • Instrument Data Handbooks: IRAC, MIPS, IRS
  • Data Analysis Workshops: Presentations
  • Data Analysis cookbooks/demonstrations
• Post-BCD software and documentation
• *One place for all your data analysis needs
• Latest versions of data analysis software:
  • CUBISM (v1.5, 22Jun07)
  • MOPEX (v18.1.5, 21Aug08)
  • IRSCLEAN (v1.9, 27Jul07)
  • SPICE (v2.1.2, 16Apr2008)
  • SMART (v6.2.6, 29Oct07)

Upcoming Local and/or Locally-Sponsored Meetings:

• New Light on Young Stars: Spitzer's View of Circumstellar Disks (Oct 26-30, 2008)
• Hot And Cool: Bridging Gaps in Massive Star Evolution (Nov 10-12, 2008)
• 213th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) (Jan 4-8, 2009)

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