A Précis of the MOA-II Observations

Abstract The Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) collaboration is an international research project that uses gravitational microlensing for the discovery of exoplanets. MOA was initiated in the late 1990s and primarily involves institutions from Japan and New Zealand. The collaboration’s observation site is the Mount John Observatory in New Zealand. We present here an overview of the MOA collaboration data archive, in terms of the monthly and annual number of images taken towards the MOA fields in the Galactic bulge and Magellanic Cloud regions, exposure times, the time between observations, and the monthly altitude distribution of observations (Reasonable requests for MOA data will be considered by the MOA collaboration. Primary contacts for data requests are Preeti Cowan (preeti.cowan@auckland.ac.nz) and Nicholas Rattenbury (n.rattenbury@auckland.ac.nz)).