Night Log 2022-01-06

SA: Alexei
SO: Thea
Others: Denis from the beginning of the night.

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=> Unstable night with rising humidity and moderate-to-bad seeing. Were closed in half an hour before twilight. Fortunately, were able to observe many high priority blocks.

Science data taken for:
2021-1-MLT-001 P1 RSS (Study of central stars of circumstellar nebulae discovered with modern infrared space telescopes)
2021-2-LSP-001 P2 HRS (Followup of Transients)
2021-2-SCI-027 P2 RSS (Characterizing stars that host a wide brown dwarf companion.)
2021-2-SCI-011 P2 RSS (Optical followup of MALS targets.)
2021-2-SCI-008 P2 RSS (Probing the quasar outflows.)
2021-1-SCI-008 P2 HRS (Study of RV Tauri stars without a circumbinary disc.)
2021-1-SCI-022 P2 HRS (Study of the properties of an extreme-amplitude heartbeat star.)

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Night Log 2022-01-05

SA: Alexei
SO: Thea
Others:

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=> Unstable night with bad seeing and rising humidity. We were able to observe some amount of high priority blocks

Science data taken for:
2018-2-MLT-005 P2 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2021-2-LSP-001 P2 RSS (x2) (Followup of Transients)
2020-1-MLT-008 P3 RSS (x4) (Obtaining redshifts for G4Jy sources - the brightest radio galaxies in the southern sky)
2020-2-SCI-042 P4 RSS (Finding young stars and their planets)

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Night Log 2022-01-04

SA: Rudi
SO: Xola
Others: Thabelo and Jono

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SCAM shutter problems prevented us from opening up tonight. TechOps were busy until 02:30 in the morning trying to fix it, but they will need to continue tomorrow during the day.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2022-01-03

SA: Rudi
SO: Xola
Others: Thabelo, Jono

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Clouds at the start of the night and technical problems prevented us from opening up tonight.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2022-01-02

SA: Rudi
SO: Xola
Others:

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We managed to good number of blocks observed with some bad seeing towards the second half of the night. A technical problem 30m before the end of the night forced us to close up.

Science data taken for:
2021-2-SCI-022 P1 HRS (x3) (RV Follow-up of TESS Full Frame Image Planet Candidate Orbiting A Red Giant Star)
2021-2-MLT-001 P1 RSS (x2) (Unravelling the gas and stellar kinematics of nearby starbursts and LIRGs)
2021-1-SCI-007 P2 HRS (x2) (Probing the binarity of a sample of galactic proto-planetary nebulae)
2021-1-MLT-005 P2 HRS (Tracing the history of extreme helium stars)
2020-2-MLT-003 P2 HRS (Follow-up of rare SB4 discovered in Gaia-ESO, GALAH and APOGEE)
2021-2-SCI-019 P2 RSS (Verification of the nature of variable central stars of PNe in the LMC)

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Night Log 2022-01-01

SA: Rudi
SO: Xola
Others:

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We managed to get a few blocks observed before the humidity forced us to close.

Science data taken for:
2021-2-MLT-001 P1 RSS (Unravelling the gas and stellar kinematics of nearby starbursts and LIRGs)
2021-2-LSP-001 P2 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2021-2-SCI-027 P2 RSS (Characterizing stars that host a wide brown dwarf companion.)
2021-1-SCI-008 P2 HRS (Study of RV Tauri stars without a circumbinary disc.)
2021-2-SCI-016 P2 HRS (Tracing the trajectory of a bright binary star system)

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Night Log 2021-12-31

SA: Rudi
SO: Xola
Others:

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Another good night with relatively good seeing. We managed to observe for a full night and mostly high priority blocks.

Science data taken for:
2021-2-SCI-008 P1 RSS (Probing the quasar outflows.)
2021-1-MLT-002 P1 RSS (A study of the kinematics, ISM and stellar properties of MHONGOOSE galaxies.)
2021-2-MLT-001 P1 RSS (Unravelling the gas and stellar kinematics of nearby starbursts and LIRGs)
2021-2-SCI-011 P1 RSS (Optical followup of MALS targets.)
2020-2-SCI-042 P1 RSS (x2) (Finding young stars and their planets)
2021-2-SCI-001 P2 HRS (Spectroscopic orbits for two tidally tilted pulsators)
2020-1-MLT-008 P2 RSS (x2) (Obtaining redshifts for G4Jy sources - the brightest radio galaxies in the southern sky)
2021-1-MLT-005 P2 HRS (Tracing the history of extreme helium stars)

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