Last Friday was the JWST Cycle 2 deadline and it was a record-setter - we don't have the completely final numbers yet, but here are some preliminary stats (all subject to possible minor changes):
1602 total proposals including 1462 General Observer for ~36,500 hours. That's a ~7:1 over-subscription. That's also ~400 more than in Cycle 1 and beats the HST highest number of 1298 proposals in Cycle 7. There's 31 Survey proposals, 4 pure parallels, and 105 Archival proposals. JWST will be busy!
1602 total proposals including 1462 General Observer for ~36,500 hours. That's a ~7:1 over-subscription. That's also ~400 more than in Cycle 1 and beats the HST highest number of 1298 proposals in Cycle 7. There's 31 Survey proposals, 4 pure parallels, and 105 Archival proposals. JWST will be busy!
Mark McCaughrean