Saturday, December 7, 2024

Night Log 2024-12-06

SA: Encarni
SO: Austun
Others:

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Back at the telescope (albeit remotely) and enjoyed a beautiful clear and productive night with no technical problems! :)



Science data taken for:
2024-2-SCI-005 P1 RSS (x2) (Near-UV and visible spectroscopy of the primitive asteroids)
2024-2-SCI-039 P1 RSS (Studying GRGs to explore their jet dynamics and their influence on the evolution of host galaxies)
2024-2-LSP-001 P1 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-SCI-025 P1 HRS (Looking for proto hot Jupiters)
2024-2-MLT-006 P1 HRS (HRS observations of a high mass binary system.)
2024-2-SCI-004 P1 RSS (Probing the quasar outflows.)
2024-2-MLT-001 P3 HRS (x2) (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2024-1-MLT-006 P3 HRS (Monitor the spectral emission lines of these Be binaries.)

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Friday, December 6, 2024

Night Log 2024-12-05

SA: Danièl
SO: Austun
Others: Nico, ET10 (slitmask), Encarni

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Clouds and technical issues made observing difficult tonight.

Science data taken for:
2024-1-MLT-006 P1 HRS (Monitor the spectral emission lines of these Be binaries.)
2024-2-SCI-005 P4 RSS (Near-UV and visible spectroscopy of the primitive asteroids)

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Thursday, December 5, 2024

Night Log 2024-12-04

SA: Danièl
SO: Austun
Others: Lisa and Malcolm

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The clouds caused us to be closed for a large part of the night, however we did managed to complete a few blocks of mixed priorities.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-SCI-025 P1 HRS (Looking for proto hot Jupiters)
2016-2-COM-001 P1 RSS (Polarimetry test proposal)
2023-2-MLT-003 P1 RSS (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)

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Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Night Log 2024-12-03

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> Clear and stable dark time night with very good seeing. We observed mainly high priority blocks.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-SCI-005 P1 RSS (x2) (Near-UV and visible spectroscopy of the primitive asteroids)
2024-2-MLT-003 P2 RSS (Photometric Reverberation Mapping of Seyfert AGN)
2024-2-SCI-009 P2 RSS (x2) (Search for new symbiotic stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud.)
2024-1-MLT-001 P3 RSS (x2) (Study of the outer parts of lenticular galaxies.)

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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Night Log 2024-12-02

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> Stable dark time night with rising humidity and moderate and good seeing. We have some technical problems. Only high priority blocks were observed.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (x2) (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-SCI-025 P1 HRS (Looking for proto hot Jupiters)
2024-2-SCI-020 P1 RSS (Near-infrared (and one optical) spectra of AGN)
2023-2-MLT-003 P2 RSS (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2024-1-MLT-001 P2 RSS (Study of the outer parts of lenticular galaxies.)

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Monday, December 2, 2024

Night Log 2024-12-01

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> Unstable dark night with mostly thick and sometimes thin clouds. We observed only low priority blocks. Some time was lost due to weather.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-SCI-025 P1 HRS (Looking for proto hot Jupiters)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (x3) (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)
2024-2-SCI-002 P3 HRS (High resolution spectrocopy of Type II Cepheids)
2024-2-SCI-021 P3 RSS (Searching for fast-moving black holes )

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Sunday, December 1, 2024

Night Log 2024-11-30

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> Stable dark night with moderate and good seeing. Only high priority blocks were observed.

Science data taken for:
2024-1-MLT-006 P1 HRS (Monitor the spectral emission lines of these Be binaries.)
2024-2-SCI-033 P1 RSS (Constraining the star formation history of the peculiar collisional ring galaxy AM0144-585)
2024-1-MLT-001 P2 RSS (x2) (Study of the outer parts of lenticular galaxies.)
2024-1-MLT-005 P2 RSS (Study of the metallicity galaxies in voids)
2024-2-SCI-008 P2 RSS (Probing stellar shells in nearby galaxies with SALT)
2024-2-MLT-007 P2 RSS (Rutgers discretionary time.)
2024-2-MLT-006 P2 HRS (HRS observations of a high mass binary system.)

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