Sunday, June 8, 2014

Night Log 2014-06-07

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> Night with many cirrus and strong wind.
=> Data were taken for the following programs:
2014-1-RSA-001 P0 RSS [PSRB1259-63 during the 2014 periastron passage]
2014-1-RSA_OTH-020 P2 SCAM [Rapid photometry of magnetic Cataclysmic Variables]
2014-1-HET_OTH-001 P0 RSS ["Follow-up spectroscopy of recently discovered supernova explosions"]
2014-1-DC-002 P3 RSS [Finding the redshift and ionization of WISE-selected QSOs]
2014-1-IUCAA-001 P2 RSS [Optical preparatory survey for Cold HI 21-cm Absorption Line Survey (CHITALS)]
2014-1-RSA_OTH-020 P2 SCAM [Rapid photometry of magnetic Cataclysmic Variables]
2014-1-RSA_OTH_UKSC-001 P3 RSS [Long term monitoring of circumstellar disk in Be X-ray binaries]
2014-1-RSA_OTH-005 P4 RSS [Spectral study of the evolution of lenticular galaxies.]
2014-1-RSA_OTH-003 P1 RSS [Investigating the activity in the not-red-and-dead brightest cluster galaxies]
2014-1-HET_GU-001 P3 RSS [Monitoring of AKN 557]

Friday, June 6, 2014

Night Log 2014-06-05

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> High humidity and heavy clouds. Temperature is below zero.
No observations tonight.

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Night Log 2014-06-04

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> Rain, snow, high humidity and temperature is below zero. No observations tonight.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Night Log 2014-06-03

SA: Brent
SO: Fred
Others: Janus by phone, Alexei, Tim F, Eben, Hamish, Veronica, Laure and visitors

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A windy few hours at start of night spent mostly getting the fibre feed for HRS successfully back online. Completed one RSS block before closing up due to strong winds, then the clouds and rain came along.

Data taken for:

2014-1-RSA_OTH_UKSC-001 P3 RSS [Long term monitoring of circumstellar disk in Be X-ray binaries]

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Night Log 2014-06-02

SA: Brent
SO: Fred
Others:

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High humidity all night. Did not open.

Monday, June 2, 2014

Night Log 2014-06-01

SA: Brent
SO: Fred
Others:

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High humidity and temperature hit below zero. No observations tonight.

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Night Log 2014-05-31

SA: Brent
SO: Fred
Others: Keith, Janus and Etienne over the phone

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A very windy night (Kuyavuthuza!!!!) and poor seeing made for a complicated night of observing. Still managed to get some science data successfully for:

2014-1-GU-001 P1 RSS [Line profile variations in WPVS 48]
2014-1-RSA_OTH_UKSC-001 P3 RSS [Long term monitoring of circumstellar disk in Be X-ray binaries]
2014-1-RSA-001 P3 RSS [PSRB1259-63 during the 2014 periastron passage]
2014-1-RSA_OTH_UKSC-001 P3 RSS [Long term monitoring of circumstellar disk in Be X-ray binaries]
2014-1-RSA_OTH-005 P4 RSS [Spectral study of the evolution of lenticular galaxies.]