Night Log 2014-08-06

SA: Brent
SO: Veronica
Others: David dB and Thea, Martin at start

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A very frustrating night with several technical problems preventing us from making use of the few clear windows available in between some extensive cloud coverage.

Data taken for:
2014-1-HET_OTH-002 P2 HRS (x2) (To determine if C enhanced Metal-poor stars without heavy element enhancement is due to binarity.)

Night Log 2014-08-05

SA: Petri
SO: Thea
Others: Brent

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Whole night lost to humidity, could not open.

Night Log 2014-08-04

SA: Petri
SO: Thea
Others:

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Night lost to clouds and rain - good timing for a control room floor upgrade

Night Log 2014-08-03

SA: Encarni
SO: Thea
Others: Keith twice to help with tracker faults.

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Partly cloudy night with a few technical problems preventing us from taking full .

Science data for:

2014-1-HET_OTH-001 P0 RSS (Follow-up spectroscopy of recently discovered supernova explosions)
2014-1-RSA_OTH-019 P1 RSS (Observing Pluto -- rotationally resolved spectra.)
2014-1-IUCAA_RSA_OTH-001 P2 RSS (Star formation histories of Pseudobulges.)
2014-1-UKSC-003 P2 RSS (Optical spectroscopy of star forming regions in N81, N88 and N113)
2014-1-RSA_POL-001 P3 RSS (Searching the galaxy for new symbiotic stars)
2014-1-RSA_UKSC-003 P4 RSS (Monitoring the spectrum of the Luminous Blue Variable S18)

Night Log 2014-08-02

SA: Encarni
SO: Thea
Others: David dB and Keith for a while.

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Clear night, but far too windy to open up most of the time. Managed a single science block:

2014-1-RSA_OTH-020 P3 SCAM (Rapid photometry of magnetic Cataclysmic Variables)

Night Log 2014-08-01

SA: Encarni
SO: Thea
Others:

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The night started cloudy, but it got progressively clearer and was lovely in the end.

Science data for:

2014-1-UNC-001 P1 RSS (Emission line kinematics of RESOLVE galaxies for tracing dark matter)
2014-1-RSA_OTH-002 P1 RSS (Investigating the history of star formation in colliding galaxies.)
2014-1-DC-003 P1 RSS (x2) (Ionized Gas Kinematics for CO-detected Obscured Quasars)
2014-1-RSA_OTH-004 P2 RSS (Measuring dark matter in clusters using the brightest cluster galaxies)
2014-1-IUCAA-001 P2 RSS (Optical preparatory survey for Cold HI 21-cm Absorption Line Survey (CHITALS))
2014-1-RSA_RU_UC_UKSC_OTH-001 P2 RSS (SALT Study of Strong Gravitational Lenses Discovered by the Herschel Space Observatory)
2014-1-RSA-005 P2 RSS (Determining the fraction of Luminous Red Galaxies in merging pairs)
2014-1-RSA_OTH-020 P3 SCAM (Rapid photometry of magnetic Cataclysmic Variables)

Night Log 2014-07-31

SA: Encarni
SO: Thea
Others: Keith and Natasha for a little while. Laure remotely helping with TimDimm.

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A frustrating night at times, with banks of clouds passing by and a few technical issues, and lovely at others with OK seeing and relatively clear skies.

Science data for:

2014-1-UNC-001 P1 RSS (x2) (Emission line kinematics of RESOLVE galaxies for tracing dark matter)
2014-1-RSA_OTH-002 P1 RSS (Investigating the history of star formation in colliding galaxies.)
2014-1-RU_RSA-002 P2 RSS (Spectroscopy of ACT mm-band selected sources and clusters)
2014-1-IUCAA-003 P2 RSS (Orbital studies of high mass X-ray binary IGRJ17544-2619)
2014-1-RSA-005 P2 RSS (Determining the fraction of Luminous Red Galaxies in merging pairs)
2014-1-RSA-003 P3 RSS (Studying brown dwarfs and the coolest stars)
2014-1-RU_RSA-001 P3 RSS (RINGS: The RSS Imaging spectroscopy Nearby Galaxy Survey)
2014-1-RSA_OTH-005 P4 RSS (Spectral study of the evolution of lenticular galaxies.)