OPTICON 2026 call results

Summary

 

Number of proposals received: 26

Successful applications: 65%

 

20.9 hours Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network

Multi-band Photometry of a Long Period Eclipsing Binary: NN Del

Poland

 

10 nights Kottamia Astronomical Observatory

Uranian/Neptunian Icy Satellites via Polarimetry

Republic of Korea

 

30 hours Baldone Schmidt Telescope, 10 hours Joan Oró Telescope, 35 hours Kottamia Astronomical Observatory, 6 hours Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, 8.5 hours Liverpool Telescope, 30 hours University of Zielona Góra Observatory

Testing Gaia Selected Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidates through Multiband Monitoring

Poland

 

16.5 hours Telescopio Nazionale Galileo

Constraining the mass of a circumbinary planet via apsidal precession

UK

 

10 hours Telescopio Nazionale Galileo

TOI-1634 and the density valley: resolving a key mass ambiguity

UK

 

10 hours Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network

Catching the Final Hours: Physical Characterization of Near-Earth Asteroids and Earth Impactors during Extreme Close Approaches

China

 

25.66 hours Telescopio Nazionale Galileo

Detecting companions to hot Jupiters to probe their origins

Germany

 

9.2 hours Liverpool Telescope, 5.6 hours Telescopio Nazionale Galileo

Understanding the crucial early emission in TDEs with fast-response discovery and high-cadence follow-up in the Rubin-LSST era

Italy

 

5 hours Kottamia Astronomical Observatory, 5 hours Skalnaté Pleso Observatory

Spectroscopic observation – Chemically peculiar stars in binary systems

Poland

 

26 hours Telescopio Nazionale Galileo

Measuring Architectures across the Savanna to Understand Dynamical Inception (MASUDI)

Italy

 

25 hours Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network

Supernova Extinction: Disentangling ISM and CSM Contributions

Portugal

 

12 hours Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, 3 hours University of Zielona Góra Observatory

Probing Shapes and Rings in Mid-Sized TNOs with LCO through stellar occultations

Spain

 

40 hours Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, 20 hours Rapid Eye Mount Telescope, 10 hours Liverpool Telescope

Pursuing the first lights of core-collapse supernovae

China

 

60 hours Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, 10 hours Liverpool Telescope

Energetics and mass-loss histories of interacting supernovae in the Multi-messenger era

Italy

 

18 hours Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network

Exploiting the robotic capabilities of LCO to support SOXS observations of GRBs/FXTs

Italy

 

12.64 hours Telescopio Nazionale Galileo

Uncovering the true nature of PSR J0435+3233, a new millisecond pulsar with an abnormally high spin-down rate

Italy

 

5 hours Telescopio Nazionale Galileo

VOYAGERS Survey HARPS-N Giant Exoplanet Candidate Follow-up Proposal

Italy