1. VISAS - ODG P74: a first view ESO Faculty meeting, 6 April 2004

2. Call and Proposal submission No more PostScript, PDF only PDF: smaller & searchable

3. Totals P74 806 proposals received for La Silla and Paranal 14 Large Programs (Paranal 13, La Silla 1) 2 submitted via email!

4. Proposal arrivals vs. Time (P74) Days Number

5. Proposal arrivals vs. Time (P74) Days Number

6. Country distribution (P74) 54% Fellows + students

7. Paranal vs. La Silla Number

8. Scientific areas (P74) Number LS P P PP

9. Optimizing the community: the VLT sky

13. Total Available vs. Total Requested “Available” in this presentation means always 182 nights!

14. Predicting trouble: UT1

15. Real life P74: UT1 For real pressure multiply by ~2 (technical time + ongoing LPs + carryovers)

16. Predicting trouble: UT2

17. Real life P74: UT2 For real pressure multiply by ~2 (technical time + ongoing LPs + carryovers)

18. Predicting trouble: UT3

19. Real life P74: UT3 For real pressure multiply by ~2 (technical time + ongoing LPs + carryovers)

20. Real life P74: UT3 DARK TIME For real pressure multiply by ~2 (technical time + ongoing LPs + carryovers) ~18 times available time!!

21. Predicting trouble: UT4

22. Real life P74: UT4 For real pressure multiply by ~2 (technical time + ongoing LPs + carryovers)

23. Real life 3.6: P74 For real pressure multiply by ~2 (technical time + ongoing LPs + carryovers)

24. Real life NTT: P74 For real pressure multiply by ~2 (technical time + ongoing LPs + carryovers)

25. Real life 2.2: P74 For real pressure multiply by ~2 (technical time + ongoing LPs + carryovers)

26. Real life 2.2: P74 DARK TIME For real pressure multiply by ~2 (technical time + ongoing LPs + carryovers) MPIA time

27. Telescope time allocation

28. The community Number of proposals 1977 Now 3.6 m 1.5 Dan 0.9 Dut 1.4 Cat 2.2 m SEST NTT UT1 UT2 UT3 UT4

29. TaToo, the scheduler