Night Log 2012-08-14

SA: Alexei
SO: Siphelo
Others: Amanda

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=> High wind speed, high humidity and heavy clouds finally.
No any observations tonight.

2012-2 Proposal Statistics

For the second semester of 2012, 102 proposals were submitted from the SALT partners for observations.    The first one submitted was by Daniel Holdsworth of Keele University and the last one submitted was by Mickael Coriat of University of Cape Town.  A total of 1413 hours were requested from 739 hours available to observe almost 900 different targets.   12% of the proposal request SALTICAM observations and 95% of the proposal request some RSS observations.    Over 78 different principle investigators submitted proposals with 260 co-investigators from 83 different institutions, including 8 different South African institutes.  

In these proposals, a wide range of different objects are targeted including  538 different galaxies, 244 stars, 60 planetary nebula, 8 clusters of galaxies, and 30 objects of unknown nature.

The proposals are currently under technical review by the SALT staff.   They will then move to the
telescope allocation committees at each partner for scientific review.   The allocations of times
should be announced around the 1st of October with the semester beginning on the 1st of Novemeber.  

Night Log 2012-08-13

SA: Alexei
SO: Siphelo
Others:

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=> Unstable night with strong wind and from moderate to bad seeing.
Were closed by strong wind.

=> Some data were taken for the following programs:
2012-1-DC_RSA_OTH-001
2012-RSA_UKSC-003
2012-1-RSA-021
2012-1-RSA-014

=> Calibration through-slit images with QTH2 lamp were taken

Night Log 2012-08-12

SA: Alexei
SO: Siphelo
Others:

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=> High humidity and a lot of snow around. No observations tonight.

Night Log 2012-08-11

SA: Alexei
SO: Siphelo
Others:

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=> Snowfall. High wind speed. High humidity.
Now observations tonight.

Night Log 2012-08-10

SA: Alexei
SO: Siphelo
Others:

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=> Unstable night with strong wind and bad seeing. Were closed by strong wind
and heavy clouds came later.

=> Some data were taken for the following programs:
2012-1-DC_RSA_OTH-001
2012-1-RSA_UKSC-003
2012-1-RSA_OTH-003

Night Log 2012-08-09

SA: Alexei
SO: Siphelo
Others: Charl from the evening

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=> Stable night with strong wind and from moderate to bad seeing.

=> Data were obtained for the following programs:
2012-1-RSA-014 (x2)
2012-1-GU-003
2012-1-RSA-018
2012-1-UNC-001 (x6)