Since GRB searches only occupy a small fraction of the possible observing time, Super-LOTIS is also used for supernova searches and general astronomy.
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The number of astronomers who regularly garner observing time at the biggest and best telescopes is far smaller, and many of them have ties to California.
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Takens also established the result now known as the Takens'theorem, which shows how to reconstruct a dynamical system from an observed time-series.
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As a competitive research telescope, the WHT is heavily oversubscribed, typically receiving applications for three to four times as much observing time as is actually available.
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As a result, the shares of observing time will become UK 33 %, Netherlands 28 %, Spain 34 % and 5 % for any nationality.
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This selection had to balance'a priori'scientific interest, and the observing programme's limiting magnitude, total observing time, and sky uniformity constraints.
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While some time on the telescope is reserved for participating institutions and crucial projects, astronomers around the world also have the opportunity to submit proposals for observing time.
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This program, accomplished with the enthusiastic support of the US non federal observatories, supplies the broad US community with some 70 nights of observing time per year.
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On completion, the telescope was handed over to ESO, which has selected six public surveys for VISTA, taking up 75 % of the available observing time.
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It was soon noticed that predicted times differed from observed times in a regular way, varying from up to ten minutes early to up to ten minutes late.
