Night Log 2014-08-13

SA: Petri
SO: Fred
Others:

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Entire night lost to humidity and clouds

Night Log 2014-08-12

SA: Brent
SO: Veronica
Others: Petri, David dB, David B, John, Hitesh, Fred, Martin

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A productive mostly clear bright night. Stopped in our tracks soon after 4 am with a tracker problems.

Data taken for:

2014-1-RU-001 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2014-1-POL_RSA_AMNH-001 P1 HRS (Looking for evidence of massive white dwarfs in symbiotic novae)
2014-1-POL-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Searching for circumbinary planets)
2014-1-HET_UC-001 P1 HRS (Searching for the Earth-mass planet around alpha Cen B)
2014-1-RSA_OTH-019 P1 RSS (Observing Pluto -- rotationally resolved spectra.)
2014-1-IUCAA_UKSC_RSA-001 P2 RSS (Studying X-ray binaries in supernovae)
2014-1-RSA_POL-001 P3 RSS (Searching the galaxy for new symbiotic stars)
2014-1-DC-001 P3 HRS (x2) (Gravitational redshifts in planetary nebulae and white dwarfs and spectra of dwarf galaxies)
2014-1-RSA_UKSC-002 P3 HRS (High resolution observations of rapidly oscillating (roAp) stars)

Night Log 2014-08-11

SA: Brent
SO: Veronica
Others: Martin at start, Etienne and fiancee

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Clear bright night with several observations successfully made. Data taken for:

2014-1-RU-001 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2014-1-POL-001 P1 HRS (Searching for circumbinary planets)
2014-1-DC-005 P1 HRS (Determining the masses of the eclipsing binary UV Psc)
2014-1-UKSC-002 P1 HRS (High time resolution spectroscopic study of chemically peculiar Ap stars)
2014-1-HET_UC-001 P1 HRS (Searching for the Earth-mass planet around alpha Cen B)
2014-1-HET_OTH-002 P2 HRS (To determine if C enhanced Metal-poor stars without heavy element enhancement is due to binarity.)
2014-1-RSA_POL-001 P3 RSS (x2) (Searching the galaxy for new symbiotic stars)
2014-1-UKSC-005 P3 HRS (Chemical Analyses of Peculiar Hot Subdwarfs)

Night Log 2014-08-10

SA: Brent
SO: Veronica
Others: David dB, Thea

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High humidity and clouds tonight. No observations taken.

Night Log 2014-08-09

SA: Brent
SO: Veronica
Others: David dB, Thea

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Heavy clouds and/or high humidity for most of tonight. Technical problems meant no science data could be taken in the small possible windows available.

Night Log 2014-08-08

SA: Brent
SO: Veronica
Others: David, Timmy, Thea

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High humidity all night and thick clouds at times. No observations tonight.

Night Log 2014-08-07

SA: Brent
SO: Veronica
Others: David dB, Timmy

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A night plagued by technical issues, cloud and high humidity. No observations made.