Night Log 2018-03-28

SA: Techops
SO: techops
Others:

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Ground Engineering Tests

No science data taken.

Night Log 2018-03-27

SA: Techops
SO: techops
Others: Ockert, Janus, Petri

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RSS Functional Ground Testing started tonight

No science data taken.

Night Log 2018-03-06

SA: ��ric
SO: Thea
Others:

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No observations, telescope is offline

No science data taken.

Night Log 2018-03-05

SA: ��ric
SO: Thea
Others:

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This is the first day of the shutdown for maintenant/upgrade at SALT.
We won't be doing any science for the next 6 weeks, and we will be back with an improved telescope with improved capabilities, so expect better science!


No science data taken.

Night Log 2018-03-04

SA: ��ric
SO: Thea
Others:

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A productive night, with good conditions at the beginning, that worsened towards the end of the night and forced us to close 3h before the sunset.


Science data taken for:
2016-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2017-1-MLT-010 P2 HRS (x3) (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)
2017-2-SCI-001 P3 RSS (Line profile variations in RX J0622.6-2318)
2017-2-SCI-044 P4 HRS (Study of the jet producing symbiotic star PN Sa 3-22)

Night Log 2018-03-03

SA: ��ric
SO: Thea
Others:

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A productive night with good weather conditions that allowed us to observe many high priority targets.

Science data taken for:
2016-2-LSP-001 P0 HRS (x4) (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2016-2-LSP-001 P0 SCAM (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2017-2-SCI-052 P1 RSS (Spectroscopic confirmation of high-redshift radio galaxy candidates)
2016-2-MLT-005 P1 HRS (Investigating the chemical composition of bright star beta Pic and its nearby circumstellar material)
2016-2-COM-001 P1 RSS (Polarimetry test proposal)
2017-1-MLT-010 P2 HRS (x7) (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)
2017-2-SCI-022 P3 HRS (Measuring the interstellar abundance of lithium in the Large Magellanic Cloud)

Night Log 2018-03-02

SA: ��ric
SO: Thea
Others: Encarni remotely for the last ET5 tests

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the night started well with good conditions that allowed us to to a high priority observation.
then we started to run some tests before the shutdown that will occur on monday.


Science data taken for:
2017-1-MLT-002 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)

Night Log 2018-03-01

SA: ��ric
SO: Thea
Others:

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the night started well with good conditions that allowed us to to a high priority observation.
then we started to run some tests before the shutdown that will occur on monday.

Science data taken for:
2017-1-MLT-002 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2017-1-MLT-010 P2 HRS (x2) (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)

Night Log 2018-02-28

SA: ��ric
SO: Thea
Others:

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A productive night with very little technical problems.
We observed a lot of programs that are well suited for the bright moon.

Science data taken for:
2017-2-MLT-006 P2 HRS (Studying the composition of Binary stars to estimate their ages)
2017-2-SCI-014 P2 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2017-1-MLT-010 P2 HRS (x8) (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)
2017-2-SCI-029 P3 HRS (Spectroscopy of TESS targets)
2017-1-MLT-001 P3 HRS (Study of long-period eclipsing binaries)
2017-2-SCI-022 P3 HRS (Measuring the interstellar abundance of lithium in the Large Magellanic Cloud)