Night Log 2016-09-29

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others: Enrico

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Cloudy night with good seeing. Almost 2 hours lost due to technical difficulties and 2 hours lost due to cloud. Made productive use of our on-sky time given the conditions.

Data taken for:

2015-1-MLT-004 P0 RSS (Deriving the mass of the black holes in the core of active galaxies @romeroencarni1 @sand_dave)
2016-1-MLT-010 P0 RSS (Follow up observations of transient sources)
2016-1-SCI-039 P1 RSS (Observing unusual binaries containing a massive blue star and a hydrogen burning white dwarf)
2016-1-SCI-060 P1 RSS (Connecting timescales of star formation and AGN activity in galaxies)
2016-1-SCI-051 P3 RSS (Monitoring the X-ray bright sgB[e] stars in Magellanic Clouds cc. @astro_Liz)
2016-1-MLT-001 P3 RSS (x2) (Kinematics of Bulge Miras)
2016-1-MLT-003 P4 RSS (x2) (Spectroscopic observations of bright RR Lyrae variables)
2016-1-SCI-057 P4 SCAM (x2) (Studying the long-term behavior of classical novae after their eruptions)
2016-1-SCI-052 P4 RSS (Stars with close-in planets: are the planets losing mass? Do they stimulate stellar flares?)

Night Log 2016-09-28

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others: Enrico

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A clear night with variable seeing. Lost two hours due to technical difficulties with the dome.

Data taken for:

2016-1-MLT-010 P0 RSS (x3) (Follow up observations of transient sources)
2016-1-SCI-022 P1 RSS (x2) (Searching for high redshift quasars for the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS))
2016-1-SCI-024 P2 HRS (Hunting for Ultra-Metal Poor stars: a quest to find the first generation of stars)
2016-1-SCI-029 P2 HRS (Probing Supernovae Chemical Yields with Magellanic Cloud B-type Stars)
2016-1-SCI-055 P3 SCAM (Studying the long-term behavior of classical novae after their eruptions)
2016-1-MLT-001 P3 RSS (Kinematics of Bulge Miras)
2016-1-SCI-051 P3 RSS (Monitoring the X-ray bright sgB[e] stars in Magellanic Clouds cc. @astro_Liz)

Night Log 2016-09-27

SA: Petri
SO: Veronica
Others: Marissa, Enrico

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Night lost to high humidity. Sub-zero temperatures, got
some snow too. It was summer two days ago?
No science data taken.

Night Log 2016-09-26

SA: Petri
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Whole night lost to high humidity and later clouds. No science.

Night Log 2016-09-25

SA: Petri
SO: Veronica
Others: Jonathan for a while, Marissa on skype for BVIT

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Another full night with good conditions. However, this time had
a few technical niggles as well, lost a bit more than an hour to
these. We also made use of the perfectly clear and
photometric conditions to spend time on engineering tests for
the system throughput. On top of that still had time for many
science observations, data taken for:

2016-1-SCI-022 P1,P2 RSS (x4) (Searching for high redshift quasars for the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS))
2016-1-MLT-008 P1 RSS (Redshift measurements of distant massive ACT galaxy clusters)
2016-1-SCI-061 P1 RSS (x2) (Study of ionized gas in galaxies where the centers are obscured by dust.)
2016-1-SCI-034 P1 RSS (Line profile variations in PKS 2135-14)

Night Log 2016-09-24

SA: Petri
SO: Veronica
Others: Minna and group of friends

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Another productive night, with super-excellent seeing in the
beginning and the last hours of the night, and clear and dry
throughout. Lost all of 3 mins for problems, so lots of science:

2016-1-SCI-011 P1 RSS (Dark energy and the expansion rate of the Universe from quasar monitoring.)
2016-1-SCI-060 P1 RSS (x2) (Connecting timescales of star formation and AGN activity in galaxies)
2016-1-SCI-022 P1 RSS (x6) (Searching for high redshift quasars for the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS))
2016-1-SCI-061 P1 RSS (Study of ionized gas in galaxies where the centers are obscured by dust.)
2016-1-MLT-008 P1 RSS (x2) (Redshift measurements of distant massive ACT galaxy clusters)
2016-1-SCI-044 P2 RSS (Search for symbiotic stars in a dwarf galaxy NGC6822.)
2016-1-SCI-024 P2 HRS (Hunting for Ultra-Metal Poor stars: a quest to find the first generation of stars)

Night Log 2016-09-23

SA: Petri
SO: Veronica
Others:

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The smoothest of sailing. Excellent seeing in stable and dry
and dark and clear conditions all night. No problems at all.. almost.
Science delivered for, hopefully, happy customers
who ordered observations on these interesting topics:

2016-1-SCI-018 P0 RSS (SALT spectroscopic follow-up of type Ia supernovae for investigations of the nature of dark energy)
2016-1-SCI-022 P1 RSS (Searching for high redshift quasars for the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS))
2016-1-SCI-011 P1 RSS (Dark energy and the expansion rate of the Universe from quasar monitoring.)
2016-1-SCI-044 P1 RSS (Search for symbiotic stars in a dwarf galaxy NGC6822.)
2016-1-SCI-061 P1 RSS (Study of ionized gas in galaxies where the centers are obscured by dust.)
2016-1-MLT-008 P1 RSS (x3) (Redshift measurements of distant massive ACT galaxy clusters)
2016-1-MLT-006 P2 HRS (Orbital period search of possible binary system)
2016-1-MLT-010 P2 RSS (Follow up observations of transient sources)