Night Log 2015-11-06

SA: Encarni
SO: Veronica
Others: E10 and Johan at the beginning of the night, then Keith later on for SALTICAM

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary
----------------------------------------------------------------------


We were closed tonight, first due to a technical problem, then the clouds came in at about 12:30pm. No science data.

Night Log 2015-11-05

SA: Encarni
SO: Veronica
Others:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary
----------------------------------------------------------------------


Lost most of the night to cloud and drizzle. Opened up in the middle of the night for about 1 hour and managed to take one science block before the clouds forced us to close again.
Lots of calibration data gathered for dual-etalon high-resolution Fabry-Perot and for Polarimetric modes of RSS operation.
The science block was for:

2015-2-SCI-048 P1 RSS (DIBs towards the Red Rectangle)

Night Log 2015-11-04

SA: Encarni
SO: Veronica
Others: Gordon

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary
----------------------------------------------------------------------


A partly cloudy night with OK seeing - and despite the clouds, we managed to gather science data for:

2015-2-SCI-027 P0 HRS (Anchoring the extragalactic distance scale with an LMC eclipsing binary star)
2015-2-MLT-003 P1 RSS (x2) (Redshift measurements of distant massive ACT galaxy clusters)
2015-2-SCI-007 P2 RSS (Spectroscopic classification of pulsating stars. )
2015-2-SCI-025 P3 RSS (Unveiling powerful hidden black holes with spectra of obscured quasars)
2015-2-SCI-059 P3 RSS (RESOLVE survey kinematics observations)

Night Log 2015-11-03

SA: Marissa
SO: Fred
Others: Encarni, Chantal, Briehan, Willie, Hannah, Gordon

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary
----------------------------------------------------------------------


Clear night with variable seeing.

Data taken for:

2015-2-SCI-061 P0 RSS (SALT follow-up of type Ia supernovae to study their spectral properties at targeted redshifts)
2015-2-SCI-040 P0 RSS (SALT ToO observation)
2015-2-MLT-001 P0 RSS (x2) (Followup spectroscopy of transients)
2015-2-SCI-033 P1 SCAM (Observations of Dwarf Novae in the Large Magellanic Cloud)
2015-2-SCI-007 P2 RSS (Spectroscopic classification of pulsating stars. )
2015-2-SCI-029 P3 RSS (Spectroscopy of Kepler K2 White Dwarfs)
2015-2-SCI-059 P3 RSS (x2) (RESOLVE survey kinematics observations)
2015-2-SCI-022 P3 RSS (Spectroscopy of early-type barred disk galaxies to investigate an ansae phenomena.)

Night Log 2015-11-02

SA: Marissa
SO: Fred
Others:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary
----------------------------------------------------------------------


First data for semester 2015-2 taken in sub-arcsecond seeing during the first part of a beautifully clear, freezing night. Unfortunately our productive start was cut short by high humidity after midnight.

Data taken for:

2015-2-SCI-040 P0 RSS (SALT ToO observation)
2015-2-SCI-036 P1 RSS (Spectrophotometry of Magellanic symbiotic stars)
2015-2-SCI-008 P1 HRS (Determining the period of a multi-periodic pulsating binary system.)
2015-2-SCI-018 P1 HRS (Evolved binaries in the Magellanic Clouds)
2015-2-SCI-054 P1 HRS (Exploring the limits of HRS for measuring Exoplanet Radial Velocities)
2015-2-SCI-003 P1 HRS (Determining the distances to massive dusty stars that may be emitting microwave lasers)

Night Log 2015-11-01

SA: Marissa
SO: Fred
Others:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary
----------------------------------------------------------------------


Closed all night due to dense cloud-cover.

No data taken.

Night Log 2015-10-31

SA: Marissa
SO: Fred
Others: Enrico (shadowing Fred)

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary
----------------------------------------------------------------------


Happy Halloween!

Solid cloud-cover kept us closed the entire night.
No data taken on this final night of semester 2015-1.

Congratulations All Blacks on winning the Rugby World Cup. Excellent performance, Australia.