Night Log 2016-09-06

SA: Marissa
SO: Fred
Others: Petri, Ant, Deneys

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First science observations were done after the maintenance period. Several further on-sky image quality tests were also completed. So we declare SALT science ready!

Data taken for:

2016-1-MLT-010 P0 RSS (x2) (Follow up observations of transient sources)
2016-1-COM-007 P2 HRS (x2) (Commissionning data for HRS)

Night Log 2016-09-05

SA: Marissa
SO: Fred
Others: Petri, Deneys

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Closed all night due to high humidity and dark clouds, allowing us to complete most of the outstanding closed dome tests required after the maintenance month.

Night Log 2016-09-04

SA: Marissa
SO: Fred
Others: Petri, Deneys

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Open all night with steady seeing but cloudy. Got the opportunity to verify that the image quality after the service period is good. Many on-sky tests completed successfully.

Night Log 2016-09-03

SA: Marissa
SO: Fred
Others: Petri, Deneys, Komiko visiting

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We got 2 hours on-sky before high humidity forced us to close. Continued with closed-dome tests thereafter.

Night Log 2016-09-02

SA: Marissa
SO: Fred
Others: Petri, Deneys, Thabelo (first hour)

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High humidity kept us off sky, doing further functionality testing with the dome closed.

Night Log 2016-09-01

SA: Marissa
SO: Fred
Others: Petri, Ant & Deneys. Dave to fix SCAM.

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High humidity cut our evening short very early on, but we could continue with our many closed dome tests that are necessary to verify our instruments and telescope are science ready.

Night Log 2016-08-31

SA: Marissa
SO: Fred
Others: Tech Ops (Chris, Eben, Keith, Thabelo, Paul, Jono, Johan), Petri, Ant & Deneys, Lisa, Ockert

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Back on sky after a month of maintenance activities. The night was devoted to testing the functionality of the telescope and it's main instruments. Good progress was made and the first-light images were extremely rewarding.