Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Night Log 2022-09-06

SA: Elizabeth
SO: Veronica
Others: Etienne, Timmy, Encarni for slot mode, Solo for handover

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A clear night with variable seeing. Several blocks of mixed priority observed, including a P0.

Science data taken for:
2021-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (x2) (Followup of Transients)
2020-2-SCI-042 P1 RSS (Finding young stars and their planets)
2022-1-MLT-004 P2 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far. @_sublunar_)
2021-2-MLT-005 P2 HRS (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2022-1-SCI-015 P3 RSS (Probing the quasar outflows.)
2021-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (x2) (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2020-1-MLT-008 P3 RSS (x8) (Obtaining redshifts for G4Jy sources - the brightest radio galaxies in the southern sky)

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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Night Log 2022-09-05

SA: Elizabeth
SO: Veronica
Others: Etienne

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Summary
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Humidity kept us closed for the first half of the night, after which we had a clear second half with moderate seeing.

Science data taken for:
2020-2-SCI-042 P1 RSS (Finding young stars and their planets)
2022-1-MLT-004 P2 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far. @_sublunar_)
2020-1-MLT-008 P3 RSS (x5) (Obtaining redshifts for G4Jy sources - the brightest radio galaxies in the southern sky)

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Monday, September 5, 2022

Night Log 2022-09-04

SA: Elizabeth
SO: Veronica
Others: Etienne

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Entire night lost to weather.

No science data taken.

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Sunday, September 4, 2022

Night Log 2022-09-03

SA: Elizabeth
SO: Veronica
Others: Danièl

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Summary
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A smooth night with moderate seeing and no weather downtime. Several blocks of mostly high priority were observed.

Science data taken for:
2020-2-SCI-042 P1 RSS (Finding young stars and their planets)
2022-1-SCI-016 P2 RSS (Study of the galaxies that produces strong MgII absorption in the spectra of the background quasars)
2020-1-MLT-008 P2 RSS (x11) (Obtaining redshifts for G4Jy sources - the brightest radio galaxies in the southern sky)
2022-1-SCI-019 P3 RSS (Probing the environment inside Extreme Emission Line Dwarf Galaxies)
2022-1-SCI-004 P3 RSS (Measuring the magnetic field strengths of B stars @dlhwp)
2021-2-LSP-001 P4 RSS (x2) (Followup of Transients)

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Saturday, September 3, 2022

Night Log 2022-09-02

SA: Elizabeth
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Summary
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We had a clear night with moderate seeing. Got interrupted by humidity in the middle of the night, but managed to observe several high priority blocks.

Science data taken for:
2020-1-MLT-005 P1 RSS (Study of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas in moderately inclined galaxies.)
2022-1-SCI-007 P1 RSS (An enigmatic `beast': the nearby edge-on giant LSB galaxy)
2020-1-MLT-008 P2 RSS (x6) (Obtaining redshifts for G4Jy sources - the brightest radio galaxies in the southern sky)
2022-1-SCI-020 P2 RSS (x2) (Revealing Physical Properties of Emission-Line Galaxies at z<0.4.)

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Friday, September 2, 2022

Night Log 2022-09-01

SA: Elizabeth
SO: Veronica
Others: Danièl (pol cals), Timmy, Richard, Encarni, Etienne, Jimmy

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Summary
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We've had a night of playing tag with the weather. Only a couple of technical issues. We managed a few blocks of mixed priority.

Science data taken for:
2021-2-LSP-001 P2 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2021-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2019-1-MLT-008 P3 HRS (x2) (HRS monitoring of yellow symbiotic systems)
2022-1-SCI-010 P4 HRS (Observing Ap stars @dlhwp)

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Thursday, September 1, 2022

Night Log 2022-08-31

SA: Elizabeth
SO: Veronica
Others: Rudi

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Summary
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We only managed to observe a couple of blocks before thick clouds came in and kept us closed for the rest of the night.

Science data taken for:
2022-1-COM-002 P1 HRS (Commissioning Data for HRS @dlhwp)
2022-1-SCI-010 P4 HRS (Observing Ap stars @dlhwp)

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