Night Log 2013-12-05

SA: Paul
SO: Thea
Others: Luke, Simon, Eddy & Ray via Skype

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- R.I.P. Tata Madiba... :( :::

- Not shut down by humidity afterall & the telescope was extremely well behaved! Lots of high-priority targets to keep the trainee SA busy & big thanks to Paul & Thea for all their help!

- Data taken for:

2013-2-RSA_UKSC-002 (P0)
2013-2-RSA_OTH-018 (P0)
2013-2-UW-002 (P1)
2013-2-HET-005 (P3)
2013-2-UW-002 (P1 - HRS)
2013-2-RSA_OTH-022 (P1 - HRS)
2013-2-RSA_OTH-021 (P0 - HRS)

Night Log 2013-12-04

SA: Paul
SO: Thea
Others: Lisa, Luke

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- closed before midnight due to high humidity.

- we were only able to obtain data for 2013-2-DC-005

Night Log 2013-12-03

SA: Paul
SO: Thea
Others: Lisa, Luke, Deon

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- had a great sub arcsec start to the evening, but it got spoiled by the midnight humidity.
- took advantage of the initial good seeing with HRS
- got one P0 target done before we had to close

- obtained data for:
- 2013-2-DC-007 x2 (HRS)
- 2013-2-IUCAA-003 (HRS)
- 2013-2-DC_RSA-001 (P0)

Night Log 2013-12-02

SA: Paul
SO: Veronica
Others: Lisa, Luke

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- rain kept us from opening the telescope tonight.

Night Log 2013-12-01

SA: Paul
SO: Veronica
Others: Lisa, Luke, Keith

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- dismal observing weather tonight. had thin cloud coverage and seeing around 4'' for most of the night.
- did one or two HRS SV observations. spent the rest of the time doing P3 and P4 targets and showed Lisa the ropes.

- obtained data for the following programs:
- 2013-2-RSA_OTH_UKSC-003 (P4)
- 2013-2-AMNH-002 (P4) x2
- 2013-2-RSA_POL-001 x3
- 2013-2-GU-001 (P1)

Night Log 2013-11-30

SA: Paul
SO: Veronica
Others: Lisa, Luke

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- bad weather tonight, closed early due to high humidity. attempted a couple of programs.
- had a tracker issue which put us out of business for a while.

- obtained data for the following programs:
- 2013-2-AMNH-002 (P4) x2
- 2013-2-UKSC-010 (P3)

Night Log 2013-11-29

SA: Paul
SO: Veronica
Others: Luke, Deon, Chantal

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- a couple of small technical issues at the start of the evening. no show stoppers though. we were able to obtain science data before high humidity closed us down just before 01:30.
- our first night in the new control room

- obtained data for the following programs:
- 2013-2-POL_OTH-001 (P1)
- 2013-1-DC_RSA_001 (P0)