Night Log 2012-06-28

SA: Paul
SO: Fred
Others: Martin at the start of the night, Lucian

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- high winds, variable seeing and tech issues made it a difficult night. the pain did not last long since we had to close after midnight due to rising humidity

- obtained data for:
- 2012-1-DC_RSA-001 (P0)
- 2012-1-GU-003 (P2)

Night Log 2012-06-27

SA: Paul
SO: Fred
Others:

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- variable seeing made scheduling difficult.
- the night was cut short at 03:30 when we had to close due to high humidity.

* attempted the following program:
- 2012-1-POL-003 (block #12043) (P2)

* obtained data for the following programs:
- 2012-1-DC_RSA-001 (P0)
- 2012-1-GU-003 (P2)
- 2012-1-POL-003 (block #11230) (P2)
- 2012-1-POL-007 (P3)
- 2012-1-DC_RSA_OTH-001 (P3)
- 2012-1-RSA_OTH_UKSC-001 (P4)
- 2012-1-POL-001 (P4)

Night Log 2012-06-26

SA: Encarni
SO: Patrick
Others:

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Another night lost to rubbish weather.

Night Log 2012-06-25

SA: Encarni
SO: Patrick
Others:

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Could not open again due to... you got it. High humidity.

Night Log 2012-06-24

SA: Encarni
SO: Patrick
Others:

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Yet another foggy night. So much for SALT being in a desert...

Night Log 2012-06-23

SA: Encarni
SO: Patrick
Others:

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Night lost to high humidity

Night Log 2012-06-22

SA: Encarni
SO: Patrick
Others: Steve C debugging SALTFIRST from CT. Paul R and Keith to check on PDET.

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Night lost to high humidity.

Night Log 2012-06-21

SA: Encarni
SO: Patrick
Others:

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Another night lost to fog.

Took engineering data for:
2011-3-UW-002
ENG_ADC

Night Log 2012-06-20

SA: Encarni
SO: Patrick
Others:

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Night lost to high humidity and clouds

Night Log 2012-06-19

SA: Brent
SO: Siphelo
Others: Petri, Encarni, Patrick, Sudhanshu + a circus of others

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Photometric dark night with seeing varying from excellent to mediocre. Lots of science done:

2012-1-UW-003 (LS)
2012-1-POL-007 (LS)
2012-1-DC-003 (LS)
2012-1-DC_RSA_OTH-001 (LS)
2012-1-RSA-003 (LS)
2012-1-RSA-009 (LS)
2012-1-GU-003 (LS)
2012-1-UKSC_OTH-001 (MOS)
2012-1-GU-001 (SCAM slot)
2012-1-IUCAA-003 (MOS)

plus partial data due to tech issues to
2012-1-UW-007 (SCAM full)
2012-1-RSA_OTH-001 (MOS)

Night Log 2012-06-18

SA: Petri
SO: Siphelo
Others:

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Very stable conditions throughout the night. Solid 99% humidity. Did not open.

Night Log 2012-06-17

SA: Petri
SO: Siphelo
Others:

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All night lost to rain and clouds

Night Log 2012-06-16

SA: Brent
SO: Siphelo
Others: Petri

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Mostly clear night with a scattering of small clouds every now and then.
Closed up

Data taken for
2012-1-RSA_POL-001 (MOS x 2)
2012-1-RSA_OTH-001 (MOS)
2012-1-UW-003
2012-1-RSA_OTH-004
2012-1-HET_GU-001
2012-1-UW-007
2012-1-POL-007

Night Log 2012-06-15

SA: Brent
SO: Siphelo
Others: Petri, Keith

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Mostly clear night with thin cirrus and at times good seeing.
First semi-automated dithered SCAM observations using grid pattern taken tonight.

Data taken for the following programs:
2012-1-RSA_POL-001 (MOS)
2012-1-RSA_OTH-001 (MOS)
2012-1-UW-003 (RSS LS)
2012-1-POL-006 (SCAM SLOTMODE)
2012-1-AMNH-007 x 5 (SCAM DITHERING!)

Night Log 2012-06-14

SA: Brent
SO: Siphelo
Others: Petri

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clear for most of night with 2-2.5" seeing.
Clouds after about 3am.

Got data for
2012-1-RSA_POL-001 (MOS)
2010-1-RSA_UW-001 (MOS)
2012-1-RSA-016
2012-1-POL-009
2012-1-UW-004
2012-1-DC_RSA_OTH-001
2012-1-RSA_UKSC-003
2012-1-DC-003

Night Log 2012-06-13

SA: Petri
SO: Siphelo
Others: Brent, Keith for help

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- First half night lost to humidity, then some technical trouble, but eventually
got science in good seeing and photometric conditions for:
2012-1-POL-003
2012-1-UKSC_OTH-001 (MOS)
2012-1-GU-003
2012-1-RSA-011

Night Log 2012-06-11

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others: Charl, Eben and Encarni by phone and VNC

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=> Clear night with some cirrus and poor and variable seeing.
Many technical problems as well.

=>Some data were taken for the next programs:
2012-1-RSA_UKSC-003 (wrong setups because database problems)
2012-1-POL-006
2012-1-GU-003
2012-1-RSA_OTH-006
2012-1-RSA_OTH-011
2012-1-RSA-021

Night Log 2012-06-10

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> Clear night with good seeing.

=>Some observations were taken.

Night Log 2012-06-09

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> High humidity all the night.
No any observations.

=> Requested 3h tests for the Frame Transfer mode were done.

Night Log 2012-06-08

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> High humidity, wind, rain and snow finally. No observations tonight.

Night Log 2012-06-07

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> Heavy clouds, rain and high humidity all the night.
No observations.

Night Log 2012-06-06

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others: The day crew: Amanda, Chris, Charl, Eben, Paul

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=> Very unstable night with high humidity and clouds finally. Were closed at about midnight.

=> Data were obtained for the following programs:
2012-1-UKSC-006
2012-1-RSA-010
2012-1-GU-003

Night Log 2012-06-05

SA: Amanda
SO: Siphelo
Others: Alexei, Amanda, Charl, Jonathan, Freddie

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. No observations tonight: clouds and high humidity.

Night Log 2012-06-04

SA: Amanda
SO: Siphelo
Others: Martin, Amanda, Jonathan, Charl, Hamish

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. Bright, clear night with high wind and variable seeing. Lost a few hours at the beginning and end due to technical problems. RSS was limited to one slit again tonight.

. Data taken for the following programs:
2012-1-POL-007 (x7)
2012-1-RSA-008
2012-1-RSA-015
2012-1-UKSC-006

Mangled metal!

There is a piece of aluminum along the edge of the SALT shutter that attaches material to prevent rain from entering the dome. That aluminum piece used to be straight. Until tonight.

Tech Ops quickly removed the mangled piece of metal (see photo below) and fixed the shutter so that we can work through the night and hopefully close up safely in the morning.

Night Log 2012-06-03

SA: Amanda
SO: Siphelo
Others: angel amanda, saviour charl

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. Clear, bright night with good to mediocre seeing (1-2"). An hour+ lost due to a broken part on RSS, but great support from tech. ops allowed us to observe the remainder of the night.

. Data taken for the following programs:
2012-1-IUCAA-002
2012-1-RSA-008 (x2)
2012-1-POL-007 (x 12)
2012-1-UKSC-006

Night Log 2012-06-02

SA: Amanda
SO: Siphelo
Others: amanda v. g.

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. Bright night with great seeing and high humidity. Closed just after midnight. Data taken for the following programs:
2012-1-IUCAA-002 (x2)
2012-1-POL-007 (x3)
2012-1-RSA-009

Night Log 2012-05-31

SA: Amanda
SO: Siphelo
Others: charl, amanda, ant (via phone)

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. Clear, stable, bright-gray night with good seeing (1.5"-1"). Data taken for the following programs:
2012-1-UNC_RSA_RU-001
2012-1-IUCAA-002 x2
2012-1-RSA-008
2012-1-DC_RSA_OTH-001
2012-1-POL-001
2012-1-IUCAA_RSA_OTH-001
2012-1-RSA-005
2012-1-RSA-009
2012-RSA_OTH-008
2012-1-UKSC-007
2012-1-UKSC-001