In the four sections of this form, select the appropriate astronomical source, instrument, telescope, observing condition and observation parameters. Click on the calculate button () at the bottom of any section to submit the parameters from all the sections to the server. The results are reported in a separate web page that can be resized and printed.

General guidance on use of the Integration Time Calculators (ITCs) is available; specific help on each section of the form is available by following the more info and other (blue highlighted) links. Note: at this time Netscape 6 and 6.01 do not work with web forms. Changes, enhancements and bugs within the ITC are listed chronologically.

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Important Notice (2012 September 10)

A bug has been reported in the GSAOI ITC when the "Photometry in software aperture that gives 'optimum' S/N ratio" option in the "Analysis Method" section is used with the "Extended Source with Uniform Surface Brightness" option in the "Spatial profile and brightness" section. Until the problem is fixed, the "Photometry in sofware aperture of diameter 2 arcsec" option has to be used to estimate the exposure time and the signal-to-noise for an "Extended Source with Uniform Surface Brightness". See the Analysis Methods web page for detailed information about the "optimum" aperture used in the case of a uniform surface brightness source.