David Kipping

And the cycle two, which has just been announced fairly recently, and the deadline is actually the end of this month.

So my team are totally laser focused on writing our proposals right now.

That is expected to be much more competitive, probably more comparable to what Hubble saw.

And so...

It's hard.

More competitive than the cycle one you said already?

Because that's already super competitive.

More competitive than the first cycle.

So I said the first cycle of James Webb was about six to one.

And this will probably be more like 20 to one, I would expect.

Yeah, you have a time critical element.

Yeah, it's hard.

And there are certain programs like doing a deep field study where you just more or less point the telescope, and that's pretty open.

I mean, you're just accumulating photons.

You can just point at that patch of the sky whenever the telescope is not doing anything else and just get to your month, let's say a month of integration time is your goal over the lifetime of JWST.

So that's maybe a little bit easier to schedule.

It's harder, especially for us looking at cool worlds, because as I said earlier, these planets transit very infrequently.

So we have to wait.

If you're looking at the Earth transiting the Sun, an alien watching us, they would only get one opportunity per year to do that observation.

The transit lasts for about 12 hours.