Night Log 2012-01-06

SA: Encarni
SO: Patrick
Others: Charl at the beginning to do final inspections and check for trouble.

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Beautiful night with very thin cirrus.

Engineering data for:
ENG_ADC

Science data for:
2011-3-POL-006
2011-3-RSA-022
2011-3-POL-001
2011-3-POL-003

Night Log 2012-01-05

SA: Encarni
SO: Patrick
Others:

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Beautiful, clear night.
Telescope offline tonight due to cooling system repairs.

Night Log 2012-01-04

SA: Encarni
SO: Patrick
Others: Charl, Johan, Amanda, Trilling, Vik, Keith, Chris, Lisa.

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Night lost due to glycol burst.

Night Log 2012-01-03

SA: Tim
SO: Zolisa
Others: keith, encarni, charl

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entire night lost to a glycol leak. thick cirrus for much of the time so didn't miss out on too much. able to show ERC some of the fabry-perot ropes before having to shut PDET down.

Night Log 2012-01-02

SA: Tim
SO: Zolisa
Others: keith

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another full and productive night, this time in spite of high winds and passing cirrus. variable seeing once again with ~1" seeing early and again late with a bout of 3" around midnight. got data for the following programs:

2011-3-UKSC_RSA-003
2011-3-POL-007
2011-3-RSA_UKSC-006
2011-3-POL-005
2011-3-POL-001
2011-3-UW-001

Night Log 2012-01-01

SA: Tim
SO: Zolisa
Others:

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steady, dry(!) night with some wind and clouds for a time. humidity actually lower when we closed than when we opened which may be a first for this time of year. variable, but mostly decent seeing with periods of very good seeing. tweaked the pointing model some more and consistently had objects come up within 5-7" of the RSS slit which makes setting up observations a WHOLE lot easier. got data for the following programs:

2011-3-RSA-020
2011-3-RSA_OTH-006
2011-3-POL-007
2011-3-POL-003
2011-3-RSA_OTH-026
2011-3-UW-001
2011-3-RSA_OTH-023

go packers!

Night Log 2011-12-31

SA: Tim
SO: Zolisa
Others: vic, keith, charl

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a dry, slightly cirrusy, steady night with highly variable seeing. the big achievement was fixing the pointing model finally. there's still room for a bit of improvment, but we're now consistently within 20" in our open loop pointing and much of the error appears to be a constant elevation offset. will tweak that out and implement for tomorrow night.

some technical problems cost part of the first half, but got some data for 2011-3-DC-005 and 2011-3-RSA_IUCAA_OTH-011 in the 2nd half. also got some pointing data to check my work.