Night Log 2017-05-16

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others: Alexei (for handover), Nhlavutelo, Enrico, Dave Kilkenny, IT crowd for a tour: Simon, Iriwaan, Pontsho

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Summary
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Observed 4/4 P0 ToOs added during the day (and night). Conditions allowed for a productive evening.

Data taken for:
2016-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (x4) (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2017-1-SCI-040 P1 RSS (x2) (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2017-1-SCI-002 P1 RSS (Studying the growth of supermassive black holes with spectropolarimetry)
2017-1-SCI-016 P2 RSS (Lyman alpha halos around newly found z>3 QSOs)
2015-2-MLT-006 P2 RSS (x2) (Characterising Strong Gravitational Lensing systems)
2017-1-SCI-043 P3 HRS (x2) (verifying the Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function)
2017-1-SCI-024 P3 RSS (Classification of rapidly varying stars)
2017-1-SCI-004 P3 HRS (Analyzing chemically peculiar subdwarfs and searching for the heavy-metal stars. )
2017-1-MLT-010 P4 HRS (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)