Night Log 2025-08-07

SA: Moses
SO: Veronica
Others: Zwido, JC, Taygan

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The night was affected by cloud cover, but we managed to observe a mix of low and high priority blocks before thicker cloud cover caused us to close for the second half of the night.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-SCI-025 P1 HRS (Looking for proto hot Jupiters)
2024-2-SCI-025 P1 RSS (Looking for proto hot Jupiters)
2024-2-MLT-001 P2 HRS (x2) (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2024-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (x2) (Stellar Characterisation of Ariel mission targets: derivation of N and O abundances)
2023-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2023-2-MLT-005 P3 HRS (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)

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Night Log 2025-08-06

SA: Moses
SO: Veronica
Others: Zwido & JC for training; Wimpie, Daniel

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We had a good night with relatively stable seeing and good weather and we managed to observe a good mix of high and low priority blocks, plus some good training done as well.

Science data taken for:
2025-1-MLT-001 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2024-2-SCI-025 P1 HRS (Looking for proto hot Jupiters)
2024-2-SCI-025 P1 RSS (Looking for proto hot Jupiters)
2023-1-COM-002 P1 RSS (Observing the Moon for polarimetry calibrations)
2023-2-MLT-003 P1 RSS (x2) (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2024-1-LSP-001 P1 NIR (x2) (Study of star formation quenching in post-starburst galaxies)
2024-2-LSP-001 P1 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-LSP-001 P2 HRS (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-MLT-001 P2 HRS (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (x2) (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)
2025-1-SCI-003 P3 HRS (x2) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)
2025-1-SCI-002 P3 HRS (Observations of ssrAp stars)

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Night Log 2025-08-05

SA: Lee
SO: Austun
Others: Moses, Zwido, JC, Lisa, Malcolm

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Night lost to bad weather.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2025-08-04

SA: Lee
SO: Austun
Others: Michael

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The weather closed us early on, though we did manage to squeeze in 6 blocks before it got us, including a P0.

Science data taken for:
2025-1-MLT-001 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2025-1-SCI-003 P3 HRS (x4) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)

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Night Log 2025-08-03

SA: Lee
SO: Austun
Others:

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Entire night lost to high winds and cloud.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2025-08-02

SA: Lee
SO: Austun
Others:

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Variable cloud made life very difficult for us tonight. We had to close twice because the cloud was too thick to observe. We were limited to low priority blocks when we were open, and had to increase the exposure time in many cases to account for the variable cloud cover.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-MLT-001 P2 HRS (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (x4) (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)
2025-1-SCI-031 P3 HRS (High resolution spectra to obtain abundances of RR Lyrae stars.)
2025-1-SCI-002 P3 HRS (x3) (Observations of ssrAp stars)
2025-1-SCI-003 P3 HRS (x5) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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Night Log 2025-08-01

SA: Lee
SO: Austun
Others:

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A very good night in which we completed 19 blocks, mostly high priority. We had excellent seeing throughout, excellent delivered image quality and a smooth night.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-COM-002 P0 RSS (This is a commissioning proposal)
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 SCAM (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-LSP-001 P1 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2025-1-SCI-006 P1 RSS (Spectroscopy of giant double-double radio galaxy )
2024-2-SCI-025 P1 RSS (x2) (Looking for proto hot Jupiters)
2023-2-MLT-003 P1 RSS (x3) (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2024-1-ORP-001 P1 RSS (Double white dwarf candidates)
2025-1-SCI-028 P1 RSS (Determining orbital periods for ultracompact binaries)
2024-2-LSP-001 P2 HRS (x2) (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-MLT-001 P2 HRS (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2025-1-MLT-001 P2 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2023-1-SCI-040 P3 HRS (Searching for variable metal lines in polluted white dwarfs)
2025-1-SCI-002 P3 HRS (Observations of ssrAp stars)
2025-1-SCI-003 P3 HRS (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)

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