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Idea 7: KCWI observations of all HII regions or OB associations in a nearby galaxy (e.g. M33), compare physical characteristics as a function of position in the galaxy. M101 is well placed in the beginning of the night and has ~8 HII regions in the NGC catalog all of which are one to a few KCWI pointings. Assuming an hour per pointing, this would be ~2 nights.

Idea 8: Monitoring of Solar System objects. We can take advantage of all the work already done to implement the twilight observing programs with OSIRIS and NIRC2. Io and Titan are visible most of the second half of the night in May. Neptune is visible during the morning twilight. Condition: No proprietary time for data taken under the current circumstances. → I propose monitoring of Giant Solar System planets too, so we can trace the evolution of their cloud coverage to improve mapping models of brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets.

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