Night Log 2015-07-30

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Rain all day and sub-zero temperatures tonight.

No data taken.

Night Log 2015-07-29

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others:

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High humidity, high wind-speed and sub-zero temperatures. Completely overcast by midnight. Forecast is for snow before sunrise and rain in the day.

No data taken.

Night Log 2015-07-28

SA: Encarni
SO: Fred
Others: Diego. Johan at the beginning of the night in case of load shedding

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We had a mostly beautiful night with clear skies and good seeing, but were forced to close due to humidity at 4:30am. We had a couple of technical problems and took a couple of engineering tests, and obtained science data for:

2015-1-SCI-013 P2 HRS (Evolved binaries in the Magellanic Clouds )
2015-1-SCI-022 P3 HRS (Spectroscopy of the evolved binary star DY Cen)
2015-1-SCI-026 P3 HRS (Doppler tomography of T Tauri-type star and a search for forming planet)
2015-1-MLT-003 P4 RSS (x4) (We aim to study a number of candidate ultracool objects, which should include new brown dwarfs.)

Night Log 2015-07-27

SA: Encarni
SO: Fred
Others: Diego. E10 to help with the payload.

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Another beautiful night with slightly worse seeing than last night. We also lost about 2 hours to a technical problem, but the rest was smooth sailing!

Science data for:

2015-1-MLT-004 P0 RSS (x4) (Deriving the mass of the central super-massive black hole in the core of active galaxies)
2015-1-SCI-065 P1 RSS (FP Halpha kinematics of RESOLVE galaxies)
2015-1-SCI-018 P1 HRS (Accretion in Young Binary Star Systems)
2015-1-SCI-013 P1 HRS (x2) (Evolved binaries in the Magellanic Clouds )
2015-1-SCI-052 P2 RSS (Finding the redshift and ionization of WISE-selected QSOs)
2015-1-SCI-012 P3 RSS (x4) (Searching for high redshift quasars for the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS))
2015-1-SCI-045 P3 RSS (Searching for binaries in unusual central stars of planetary nebulae)
2015-1-SCI-005 P3 RSS (Time variability of emerging BAL QSOs.)

Night Log 2015-07-26

SA: Encarni
SO: Fred
Others: Diego. Johan and E10 to sort BMS out.

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What a gorgeous night!!!! Clear, good seeing, low wind.. we were kept busy!

Science data for:
2015-1-MLT-002 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2015-1-MLT-004 P0 RSS (x3) (Deriving the mass of the central super-massive black hole in the core of active galaxies)
2015-1-SCI-065 P1 RSS (FP Halpha kinematics of RESOLVE galaxies)
2015-1-SCI-013 P1 HRS (Evolved binaries in the Magellanic Clouds )
2015-1-SCI-005 P2 RSS (x3) (Time variability of emerging BAL QSOs.)
2015-1-SCI-012 P3 RSS (x3) (Searching for high redshift quasars for the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS))

Night Log 2015-07-25

SA: Encarni
SO: Fred
Others: Diego. Johan to help with the CCAS shutter (and then the dome shutter)

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You guessed it: a very cold and humid night. But wait - the humidity dropped at 4am and we managed to get one DDT observation! :)

2015-1-DDT-003 P0 RSS (Studying an extremely luminous supernova.)

And the forecast is promising for tomorrow night, so watch this spot!

Night Log 2015-07-24

SA: Encarni
SO: Fred
Others: Diego. Johan to help with the power-cuts.

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Entire night lost to high humidity, cloud and fog. No observations possible.