Recommended allocated telescope time by the CAT

Semester 2026A

Mercator

Ref. CATPIAwarded number nightsInstrumentLarge programTitle
37-Mercator1/26AJesús Maíz Apellániz6.5 D HERMES - The beauty of k2: Probing massive stars' interior using apsidal motion in binaries
80-Mercator2/26ASongmei Qin0.5 A (4.5hrs) HERMES - High-Resolution Spectroscopic Study of Blue Straggler, Main-Sequence, and Giant Stars in 3 Galactic Open Clusters
82-Mercator3/26ADavid Aguado5 D HERMES - Early r-process enrichment in the Milky Way with Aurora stars
86-Mercator4/26AJaroslav Merc3 A HERMES - Flickering in CH Cyg with spectroscopy in a high-state
95-Mercator5/26AMichael Abdul-Masih9 A HERMES - Constraining mass transfer in massive stars with Algol binaries
132-Mercator6/26AJudit Donada Oliu5 A HERMES - High-precision chemical characterisation of open star clusters in the Gaia era (III)

Proposals 37-Mercator1/26A and 80-Mercator2/26A will share the first night.
All CAT proposals are approved in visitor mode; therefore, the teams must send an observer to the Observatory on the scheduled nights.