Drake Deming and Joe Harrington have 6 nights on the IRTF to provide
high resolution (!) ground-based support for the long-wavelength
channel of CIRS, which has about 9 "pixels" equivalent resolution on
the disk. We will be on the telescope Dec 13, 14, 19, 20, and Jan 3,
4. We will be using MIRLIN and observing at 7.85 microns (CVF, methane
band), Q2, and Q3 filters (near 20 microns, 2 filters to separate the
ortho- and para-hydrogen spin states). These times are co-incident
with or near the CIRS mapping sequences. The center of our 12-hour
observing periods will be at Jupiter transit, starting on the given
dates Hawaii time. The main program goal is to study planetary waves.