The Astronomy Department at Universidad de Chile (DAS) is mandated to administer Chilean telescope time on the following facilities that have signed agreements with Universidad de Chile: LCO (including the Magellan, Swope, du Pont and Warsaw telescopes), CTIO (including SOAR, PROMPT, SMARTS, KASI and others) Mini-TAO, ASTE, NANTEN and the National Telescopes at La Silla.
To this end, the DAS organizes twice a year a Chilean Time Allocation Committee (CNTAC). The CNTAC is composed by experts from both the local community and the international observatories based in Chile.