Night Log 2026-01-01

SA: Lee
SO: Nomzamo
Others:

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We struggled with cloud for the first part of the night, but were treated to some fabulous seeing after it cleared out. The bright moon restricted us to using HRS all night.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-003 P2 HRS (x4) (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2025-2-MLT-010 P2 HRS (SA-China Exoplanet Collaboration PASTA)
2024-1-MLT-010 P2 HRS (Stellar Characterisation of Ariel mission targets: derivation of N and O abundances)
2024-2-MLT-001 P3 HRS (x2) (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2025-2-SCI-029 P3 HRS (High resolution spectroscopy of asteroseismic targets)
2025-2-SCI-004 P3 HRS (observations of ssrAp stars)

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Night Log 2025-12-31

SA: Lee
SO: Nomzamo
Others:

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We lost most of the night to cloud, but opened after midnight to complete the first 4 blocks of 2026 with good seeing. Happy new year!

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-003 P2 HRS (x3) (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2025-2-MLT-008 P2 HRS (Monitoring beta Pic for exocomets.)

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Night Log 2025-12-30

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> Stable night with good seeing. Many high priorities blocks were observed.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-003 P1 HRS (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2025-2-SCI-014 P2 RSS (We are probing the large scale outflows in bright quasars through absorption spectroscopy.)
2025-2-SCI-009 P2 HRS (High resolution spectrocopy of Type II Cepheids)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (x2) (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)
2025-2-SCI-004 P3 HRS (observations of ssrAp stars)
2025-2-LSP-003 P3 RSS (x2) (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)

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Night Log 2025-12-29

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> Nice stable night with moderate and stable seeing. Many high priority blocks were observed.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-003 P1 HRS (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2025-2-SCI-014 P2 RSS (We are probing the large scale outflows in bright quasars through absorption spectroscopy.)
2025-2-MLT-012 P2 HRS (Search for binary stars which may form planetary nebulae.)
2024-2-MLT-006 P2 HRS (HRS observations of a high mass binary system.)
2025-2-SCI-016 P2 RSS (Observing rare and fast transients.)
2025-2-MLT-008 P2 HRS (Monitoring beta Pic for exocomets.)
2025-2-SCI-006 P2 HRS (Measuring Lithium abundances in UMa candidate stars)
2025-2-MLT-010 P2 HRS (SA-China Exoplanet Collaboration PASTA)
2025-2-SCI-005 P3 HRS (Observing, how disc-atmosphere inhomogeneities are rotating around the forming star)
2025-2-SCI-027 P3 HRS (detached eclipsing binaries for PLATO mission)

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Night Log 2025-12-28

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> Stable night with with slow rising humidity and moderate to bad seeing. The low priority blocks were observed for this reason

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-032 P1 RSS (Low resolution spectra of blue, low-mass galaxies to determine redshifts/velocities)
2025-2-SCI-020 P3 RSS (x2) (Uncovering the nature of new X-ray objects discovered in the Magellanic system with eROSITA)
2025-2-LSP-003 P3 RSS (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2025-2-SCI-001 P3 RSS (Observational program to srudy variations of Dark Matter Fraction among Galaxies)
2025-2-MLT-013 P3 RSS (Searching for double hydrogen-deficient stars)
2025-2-SCI-031 P3 RSS (x2) (Redshifts of candidate TeV blazars)
2025-2-SCI-014 P3 RSS (We are probing the large scale outflows in bright quasars through absorption spectroscopy.)

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Night Log 2025-12-27

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> Nice night with moderate seeing and slowly rising humidity. We were closed by humidity in one hour before twilight. Mainly low priority blocks were observed.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-031 P3 RSS (x2) (Redshifts of candidate TeV blazars)
2025-2-MLT-002 P3 RSS (x2) (Study of ionized gas in star-forming dwarf ring galaxies)
2025-2-SCI-020 P3 RSS (x2) (Uncovering the nature of new X-ray objects discovered in the Magellanic system with eROSITA)
2025-2-MLT-001 P4 RSS (Toward a complete census of void galaxy properties in the Local Volume)

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Night Log 2025-12-26

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> Unstable night with clouds and high humidity. Only one block was observed because such bad weather.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-020 P3 RSS (Uncovering the nature of new X-ray objects discovered in the Magellanic system with eROSITA)

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