Night Log 2025-11-09

SA: Moses
SO: Nomzamo
Others: Irina, Visitors, DSI Deputy Minister

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Most of the night was lost due to thick clouds or high humidity, but we managed a couple of blocks even got a little sub-arcsecond seeing observing towards the end.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-019 P1 RSS (Probing CGM Response to Quasar Variability)
2024-2-LSP-001 P1 RSS (Followup of Transients)

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Night Log 2025-11-08

SA: Moses
SO: Nomzamo
Others: Etienne, Eben, Ros, + Many Visitors

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We had mostly clearly skies and great seeing for most of the night and we managed to observe many high priority blocks.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-016 P0 HRS (Observing rare and fast transients.)
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 HRS (Followup of Transients)
2025-1-MLT-001 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2025-2-SCI-032 P1 RSS (Low resolution spectra of blue, low-mass galaxies to determine redshifts/velocities)
2025-2-SCI-035 P1 RSS (Study of a sample of high redshift radio sources at z>3)
2025-2-SCI-006 P1 HRS (Measuring Lithium abundances in UMa candidate stars)
2025-2-MLT-007 P1 RSS (Spectroscopic monitoring of a unique red (?) supergiant in the LMC)
2025-2-SCI-031 P2 RSS (Redshifts of candidate TeV blazars)
2025-2-SCI-033 P2 HRS (Two transiting TESS triple planet systems composed of super-Earths involved in two-body 3:2 MMRs.)
2025-2-LSP-003 P2 RSS (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2025-2-LSP-001 P4 HRS (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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Night Log 2025-11-07

SA: Moses
SO: Nomzamo
Others: Anthony (for NCON), Devakshan (for Mirror), Etienne, Lisa, Jon, Daniel H, LFC team

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We fought valiantly against the weather but it won and we only managed 2 blocks.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-003 P3 HRS (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2025-2-LSP-001 P4 HRS (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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Night Log 2025-11-06

SA: Moses
SO: Nomzamo
Others: Lisa, Daniel H, LFC team

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We managed to do a few blocks at the start of the night, but the seeing got bad in the middle and then humidity went up and caused us to close early.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2025-2-LSP-001 P4 HRS (x4) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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Night Log 2025-11-05

SA: Moses
SO: Nomzamo
Others: Eben, Lisa, Daniel H, LFC team

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The conditions were good at the start of the night and we managed to observe many blocks but as the night went on the seeing got worse and the night was cut short by high humidity.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-MLT-010 P1 HRS (SA-China Exoplanet Collaboration PASTA)
2024-2-LSP-001 P1 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-SCI-025 P2 RSS (Looking for proto hot Jupiters)
2020-1-MLT-008 P4 RSS (Obtaining redshifts for G4Jy sources - the brightest radio galaxies in the southern sky)
2025-2-LSP-001 P4 HRS (x2) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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Night Log 2025-11-04

SA: Antoine
SO: Fred
Others: Moses, Lisa, Daniel, Nomzamo and John

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We had a mostly clear night with reasonable seeing and we observed many blocks until an unexpected rise in the humidity closed us.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 HRS (Followup of Transients)
2025-2-MLT-010 P2 HRS (SA-China Exoplanet Collaboration PASTA)
2025-2-SCI-009 P2 HRS (High resolution spectrocopy of Type II Cepheids)
2025-2-SCI-027 P3 HRS (detached eclipsing binaries for PLATO mission)
2024-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (Stellar Characterisation of Ariel mission targets: derivation of N and O abundances)
2025-2-MLT-013 P3 RSS (x2) (Searching for double hydrogen-deficient stars)
2024-2-MLT-001 P3 HRS (x3) (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2025-2-SCI-003 P3 HRS (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2025-2-LSP-001 P4 HRS (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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Night Log 2025-11-03

SA: Antoine
SO: Fred
Others:

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We had clear skies and stable seeing and we were able to observe many blocks of mixed priorities.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 HRS (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-LSP-001 P1 RSS (x2) (Followup of Transients)
2025-2-SCI-011 P2 HRS (delta Scuti Ap stars)
2024-2-MLT-006 P2 HRS (HRS observations of a high mass binary system.)
2025-2-MLT-010 P2 HRS (SA-China Exoplanet Collaboration PASTA)
2025-2-SCI-027 P2 HRS (detached eclipsing binaries for PLATO mission)
2025-2-MLT-012 P2 HRS (x2) (Search for binary stars which may form planetary nebulae.)
2024-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (Stellar Characterisation of Ariel mission targets: derivation of N and O abundances)
2024-2-MLT-001 P3 HRS (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)

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