This page provides information related to: 

• observing schedule 

• proposal preparation: 
• generalities
• form pages 
• Time Estimator
• source visibilities from Pico Veleta
• LST, sunrise and sunset during the year

• proposal submission 

• observers travelling to Pico Veleta: essential formalities 

• Travel support for European astronomers is possible through the Radionet Transnational Access program.

• remote observing under the New Control System is now possible again. Stations in the IRAM Granada and Grenoble offices and at the MPIfR in Bonn are operational. More stations are being prepared. Contact the Astronomer on Duty (Granada), Pierre Hily-Blant (hilyblan@iram.fr) for Grenoble, or Dirk Muders (muders@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de).

• HERA, the 1.3mm heterodyne receiver array.   An updated user manual (version 2.0) is available.

• VESPA (Versatile Spectral and Polarimetric Array) is the new, greatly expanded correlator backend. 
  Up to 18000 spectral channels in many configurations and user modes are available.
  See the summary published in the IRAM Newsletter No. 54 and the preliminary user manual.
  A configurations demonstration routine, written by Gabriel Paubert in python and running  in a unix/linux environment, can be downloaded from here.

• Pooled observations:   how we do it

• Extended frequency range:   Receivers A100 and B100 (nominal tuning range: 80 - 115.5 GHz) can now be used down to 72 GHz under certain restrictions and caveats. A test report is available here together with a selection of spectra.

• Polarimetry at the 30m:   a technical publication describes the correlation polarimeter XPOL