Saturday, April 27, 2024

Night Log 2024-04-26

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> The whole night lost due to weather

No science data taken.

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Friday, April 26, 2024

Night Log 2024-04-25

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> Night with bright moon and high humidity. Only few blocks were observed before we were closed by high humidity.

Science data taken for:
2024-1-SCI-007 P1 HRS (observing Ap stars)
2023-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (HS pipeline observations @dlhwp)
2023-2-MLT-005 P3 HRS (x2) (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Night Log 2024-04-24

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> Night with bright moon and moderate seeing. Many low priority blocks were done.

Science data taken for:
2023-2-SCI-015 P1 HRS (Spectrosocpic classification of the microlensing events candidates alerted by Gaia mission)
2023-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x4) (HS pipeline observations @dlhwp)
2023-2-MLT-001 P2 HRS (Study of hot SB2 systems)
2023-2-MLT-005 P3 HRS (x2) (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2023-1-MLT-005 P4 HRS (x5) (Study of the proporties of chemically peculiar Am stars)
2023-2-SCI-006 P4 HRS (x12) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Night Log 2024-04-23

SA: Moses
SO: Thea
Others: Fred, Alexei, Bryne, E10, Sunnyboy

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TAfter a bumpy start to the evening due to some technical problems we managed to have a smooth evening and observe many blocks.

Science data taken for:
2023-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x5) (HS pipeline observations @dlhwp)
2019-1-MLT-008 P2 HRS (x4) (HRS monitoring of yellow symbiotic systems)
2023-2-MLT-001 P2 HRS (Study of hot SB2 systems)
2023-2-ORP-002 P2 HRS (Tracing the donor star in the prototypical LMXB, Sco X-1)
2023-2-MLT-005 P3 HRS (x2) (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2022-2-MLT-002 P3 HRS (Follow-up of tight stellar quadruples)
2023-2-SCI-006 P4 HRS (x5) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Night Log 2024-04-22

SA: Moses
SO: Thea
Others:

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We had a relatively smooth night, lots of cloud, but it was mostly high thin cloud. Seeing was stable, albeit not the best, but we managed to observe many blocks tonight.

Science data taken for:
2023-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x5) (HS pipeline observations @dlhwp)
2019-1-MLT-008 P2 HRS (x7) (HRS monitoring of yellow symbiotic systems)
2023-2-MLT-005 P3 HRS (x5) (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2022-2-MLT-002 P3 HRS (Follow-up of tight stellar quadruples)
2023-1-MLT-005 P4 HRS (x2) (Study of the proporties of chemically peculiar Am stars)
2023-2-SCI-006 P4 HRS (x5) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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Monday, April 22, 2024

Night Log 2024-04-21

SA: Moses
SO: Thea
Others:

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We lost the whole night due to bad weather

No science data taken.

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Night Log 2024-04-20

SA: Moses
SO: Thea
Others: Danièl (pol calibration), Nico, Bryne (remotely)

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We had a relatively problem free night with mostly clear skies, we managed to observe many blocks and take some engineering data.

Science data taken for:
2023-1-MLT-008 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far. @_sublunar_)
2023-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x4) (HS pipeline observations @dlhwp)
2023-2-SCI-024 P1 RSS (Identifying targets for follow-up BH dynamical mass measurements)
2023-1-COM-002 P1 RSS (Observing the Moon for polarimetry calibrations)
2019-1-MLT-008 P2 HRS (x3) (HRS monitoring of yellow symbiotic systems)
2023-1-MLT-007 P3 RSS (SALT+Gaia survey of helium-rich hot subdwarfs)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (x7) (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)
2023-2-SCI-029 P3 RSS (Edge-on Disks: Dust Distributions and Candidate Selection for Disk Heating Program)
2023-2-SCI-006 P4 HRS (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)
2023-2-MLT-005 P4 RSS (x3) (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2023-2-SCI-010 P4 RSS (Ages of Stars in Galactic Wrinkles)
2023-1-MLT-005 P4 HRS (x2) (Study of the proporties of chemically peculiar Am stars)

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