Dear Colleagues,
The Science Flight Planning for the SOFIA/EXES Science Flight Series OC6-E (March 27 - April 11) is now under way. Initial planning shows that, because of the anisotropic distribution of proposed Cycle 6 targets, scheduling the highest priority targets imply significant, but unavoidable, dead-legs over the series.
SOFIA Science and Mission Operations (SMO) is therefore soliciting Director's Discretionary Time (DDT) proposals for observations that can take advantage of these dead-legs. Targets for such observations should be in the general area of RA=5-8h and Dec>+50deg. Depending on the specific targets and requested modes, up to ~400min of total time could be available, over several flights.