The Science and Technology Facilities Council invites proposals for research time at the Liverpool telescope. This enables researchers to access the Liverpool telescope, a 2.0 metre fully robotic facility sited at Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos, Canary Islands. Proposals are accepted for time for observations in semester 2017B, between 1 July 2017 and 28 February 2018, and the total available time is 300 hours.

The following instruments are available:

•IO:O, the primary imaging charge-coupled device camera;

•SPRAT, which provides high-throughput, low-resolution, long-slit optical spectroscopy;

•FRODOSpec, an integral-field optical spectrograph;

•LOTUS, a heavily far-blue optimised, long-slit spectrograph;

•RINGO3, which provides imaging polarimetry over a ~4 arcmin diameter circular field-of-view simultaneously in three optical wavebands;

•RISE, a fast-readout optical imager;

•IO:I, which uses a 2048x2048 pixel Hawaii 2RG detector with a 1.7 micron cutoff.

The Panel for the Allocation of Telescope Time (PATT) accepts proposals from PI’s based in the UK. Employees of Liverpool John Moores University should usually apply through the internal JMU call.

Spanish PIs should apply through the Comision de Asignacion de Tiempos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. Some non-UK and non-Spanish PIs are eligible to apply through the OPTICON Transnational Access programme, or through the International Scientific Committee (CCI). Non-UK PIs who are not eligible for CAT, OPTICON or CCI time may apply through PATT.