Monday, March 23, 2026

Night Log 2026-03-22

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> A magnificent dark night with stable weather and good image quality. Seventeen blocks were observed, most of which were high priority, and two of them were P0.

Science data taken for:
2025-1-MLT-001 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (x4) (Followup of Transients)
2025-2-SCI-021 P1 RSS (x5) (Investigation of activity among main-belt objects)
2025-2-MLT-011 P1 RSS (Obtaining dynamical information and constraining galaxy cluster merger geometries and timescales)
2025-2-SCI-017 P2 RSS ("Understanding the peculiar collision geometry of the Cartwheel system")
2025-2-SCI-038 P2 HRS (Identifying Be eclipsing binaries)
2025-2-SCI-001 P3 RSS (Observational program to srudy variations of Dark Matter Fraction among Galaxies)
2024-2-MLT-001 P3 HRS (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2025-2-MLT-002 P3 RSS (Study of ionized gas in star-forming dwarf ring galaxies)
2025-2-LSP-001 P4 HRS (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Night Log 2026-03-21

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others: Michael, Sam, Sunnyboy, Austin, Devakshan

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=> A night of good and very good seeing, with humidity steadily rising. We closed the telescope for two and a half hours after midnight and opened it again for the final hour and a half. Mainly high priority blocks were observed.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-MLT-009 P1 RSS (Spectroscopy of ultra-diffuse galaxies)
2025-2-SCI-039 P1 RSS (Optical and near-infrared IFU observations of nearby starbursts and LIRGs)
2024-2-LSP-001 P2 HRS (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-LSP-001 P2 RSS (x3) (Followup of Transients)
2025-2-SCI-003 P3 HRS (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2025-2-SCI-034 P3 RSS (Probing magnetic field strength in mangnetic CVs)

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Saturday, March 21, 2026

Night Log 2026-03-20

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> Only one block was observed before we were closed by humidity.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P1 RSS (Followup of Transients)

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Friday, March 20, 2026

Night Log 2026-03-19

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> The whole night was lost because of the bad weather.

No science data taken.

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Thursday, March 19, 2026

Night Log 2026-03-18

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> Unstable dark time night. All night we observed with thin clouds and were closed by humidity for about three hours. Anyway, we observed eight blocks of different priorities.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-MLT-006 P1 RSS (Study of galaxy properties of galaxy group HIPASS 1059-09)
2025-1-MLT-003 P1 HRS (Unraveling the enigmatic variability of AE Cir system with SALT)
2025-2-SCI-006 P2 HRS (Measuring Lithium abundances in UMa candidate stars)
2024-2-SCI-025 P2 HRS (Looking for proto hot Jupiters)
2024-2-LSP-001 P2 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2024-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (Stellar Characterisation of Ariel mission targets: derivation of N and O abundances)
2025-2-LSP-003 P3 RSS (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2024-2-MLT-001 P3 HRS (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)

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Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Night Log 2026-03-17

SA: Antoine
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Lost the whole night due to bad weather.

No science data taken.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Night Log 2026-03-16

SA: Antoine
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Lost the whole night due to bad weather.

No science data taken.

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