AGILE
AGILE AO-2   
The Italian Space Agency (ASI) announces the release of the second Announcement of Opportunity to solicit proposals for the Guest Observer Program (GOP) of the AGILE mission.

This announcement solicits proposals for observations to be carried out during the observing time beginning on December 1st, 2008, and lasting twelve months.
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Attention: the AO2 deadline has been postponed! Proposals may be submitted at any time during the period
starting 12 November 2008 and ending 7 January 2009.

Top level documentation regarding the AO2 can be found here:

   • Agile AO2 Approved Targets

   • Agile AO2 Polices and Procedures

   • Agile AO2 Pointing Plan

   • Agile AO2 Team Reserved Sources


Proposals may be prepared and submitted using a set of dedicated SSDC GOP on-line services (Proposal Preparation) .

Please remember that users must register in order to access the "proposal submission tool" and to prepare and update their proposals before final submission.




AGILE BASELINE POINTING PLAN (ABPP) - Cycle 2 :
The table provides the coordinates of the pointing centroids at the beginning of the pointing periods

    l b RA (J2000)
DEC (J2000)
Start Observation
(UTC)		 End Observation
(UTC)		 Interactive
Aitoff map
  Cygnus Field
82.657 -10.174
321.
21h 23m 59.9s
36.
+36° 0' 0"
2008-12-01 2008-12-20  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20081201_20081220_321_36.jpg
  Cygnus Field
95.612 -10.471
334.
22h 15m 59.9s
44.
+44° 0' 0"
2008-12-20 2009-01-15  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20081220_20090115_334_44.jpg
  Cygnus Field
105.781 10.745
325.
21h 40m 0s
67.
+67° 0' 0"
2009-01-15 2009-02-28  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090115_20090228_325_67.jpg
  Gal. Center
349.755 13.586
247.
16h 27m 59.9s
-29.
-29° 0' 0"
2009-02-28 2009-03-25  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090228_20090325_247_-29.jpg
  Crab Field
190.746 2.855
95.
6h 19m 59.9s
21.
+21° 0' 0"
2009-03-25 2009-04-01  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090325_20090401_95_21.jpg
  Aquila Field
14.628 -8.246
282.
18h 48m 0s
-20.
-20° 0' 0"
2009-04-01 2009-04-15  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090401_20090415_282_-20.jpg
  Aquila Field
50.381 1.109
290.
19h 19m 59.9s
16.
+16° 0' 0"
2009-04-15 2009-04-30  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090415_20090430_290_16.jpg
  Cygnus Field
67.083 0.049
300.
20h 0m 0s
30.
+30° 0' 0"
2009-04-30 2009-05-15  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090430_20090515_300_30.jpg
  Vela Field
256.139 0.931
127.
8h 28m 0s
-37.
-37° 0' 0"
2009-05-15 2009-05-31  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090515_20090531_127_-37.jpg
  Virgo Field
236.466 59.006
164.
10h 56m 0s
12.
+12° 0' 0"
2009-05-31 2009-06-15  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090531_20090615_164_12.jpg
  Cygnus Field
92.635 -9.562
330.
22h 0m 0s
43.
+43° 0' 0"
2009-06-15 2009-06-25  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090615_20090625_330_43.jpg
  Cygnus Field
99.887 -19.833
345.
23h 0m 0s
38.
+38° 0' 0"
2009-06-25 2009-07-15  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090625_20090715_345_38.jpg
  Cygnus Field
105.445 7.116
330.
22h 0m 0s
64.
+64° 0' 0"
2009-07-15 2009-08-12  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090715_20090812_330_64.jpg
  Vela Field
307.209 0.566
202.
13h 28m 0s
-62.
-62° 0' 0"
2009-08-12 2009-08-31  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090812_20090831_202_-62.jpg
  Norma Field
342.789 10.586
244.
16h 15m 59.9s
-36.
-36° 0' 0"
2009-08-31 2009-09-10  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090831_20090910_244_-36.jpg
  Gal. Center
0.279 10.32
257.
17h 7m 59.9s
-23.
-23° 0' 0"
2009-09-10 2009-09-22  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090910_20090922_257_-23.jpg
  Crab Field
187.158 -1.538
89.
5h 56m 0s
22.
+22° 0' 0"
2009-09-22 2009-09-30  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090922_20090930_89_22.jpg
  Aquila Field
10.252 -6.245
278.
18h 32m 0s
-23.
-23° 0' 0"
2009-09-30 2009-10-15  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20090930_20091015_278_-23.jpg
  Aquila Field
60.365 10.279
286.
19h 3m 59.9s
29.
+29° 0' 0"
2009-10-15 2009-10-31  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20091015_20091031_286_29.jpg
  Cygnus Field
64.466 0.507
298.
19h 52m 0s
28.
+28° 0' 0"
2009-10-31 2009-11-30  /agile_fov/ABPP2/agilefov_20091031_20091130_298_28.jpg