Night Log 2019-12-30

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others: Stephanie, Ruby, Deneys, Anthony

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Not a good night observing wise. Only managed to get 3 blocks before the weather forced us to close.

Science data taken for:
2019-2-SCI-035 P3 RSS (Searching for AGN undetected in X-ray surveys. )
2019-2-SCI-024 P3 HRS (Searching for evolved binary stars in the LMC)
2018-1-MLT-003 P3 RSS (Spectral study of starforming rings in S0 galaxies)

Night Log 2019-12-29

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others: Stephanie, Deneys and Ruby

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A good productive night with moderate seeing and some minor technical issues.

Science data taken for:
2019-2-SCI-040 P1 RSS (Monitoring the spectropolarimetric behavior of blazars)
2019-1-MLT-005 P1 RSS (x2) (Spectral survey of candidate unusual nearby void dwarfs)
2019-1-SCI-014 P2 RSS (Measuring galaxy kinematics for construction of the galaxy velocity function)
2019-2-SCI-004 P2 HRS (Variability of the unusual young and cool star UNSW-V760)
2018-1-SCI-041 P2 RSS (Confirmation and redshift determination of galaxy clusters.)
2019-2-SCI-001 P3 HRS (x2) (SALT monitoring of luminous blue variables.)
2019-2-MLT-004 P3 RSS (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)

Night Log 2019-12-28

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others: Stephanie, Anthony and friends

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Not a very productive night with the clouds taking a lot of the time away from us. We managed to get a few high priority blocks though.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-LSP-001 P0 HRS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-MLT-005 P2 RSS (x3) (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)

Night Log 2019-12-27

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others: Stephanie, Deneys, Ruby, Anthony and friends

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A number of low priority targets were observed due to the extrmely bad seeing that at times was well over 8".

Science data taken for:
2019-2-SCI-006 P3 HRS (x2) (Investigating the multiplicity of WR stars)
2019-2-MLT-004 P3 RSS (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)
2019-2-SCI-030 P3 RSS (Finding concealed accreting supermassive black holes.)
2019-2-SCI-031 P4 HRS (x4) (Study of RV Tauri stars without a circumbinary disc.)
2019-2-SCI-004 P4 HRS (Variability of the unusual young and cool star UNSW-V760)

Night Log 2019-12-26

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others: Stephanie, Deneys, Ruby

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Bad weather prevented us from opening up tonight.

No science data taken.

Night Log 2019-12-25

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others: Stephanie

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A relatively good night with a mix of priority blocks observed. The weather forced us to close about an hour early.

Science data taken for:
2019-1-LSP-001 P1 RSS (Tracing the evolution of the most massive galaxies in the universe)
2018-2-MLT-005 P1 RSS (x2) (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2019-1-MLT-005 P1 RSS (Spectral survey of candidate unusual nearby void dwarfs)
2019-2-SCI-004 P2 HRS (Variability of the unusual young and cool star UNSW-V760)
2019-2-MLT-002 P2 RSS (Optical spectroscopy of multi-phase gas detected in H-alpha and MeerKAT HI observations of Fornax A)
2019-2-SCI-001 P3 HRS (SALT monitoring of luminous blue variables.)

Night Log 2019-12-24

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others: Stephanie, Deneys, Ruby

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A very good night with many high priority targets observed as well as a fat man in a red suit moving at extreme velocity.

Science data taken for:
2019-2-DDT-005 P0 RSS (Spectral observations of candidate unusual nearby void dwarfs)
2018-2-LSP-001 P0 HRS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2019-2-DDT-003 P1 HRS (x3) (RV Followup of TESS Planet Candidate)
2018-2-MLT-005 P1 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2019-1-LSP-001 P1 RSS (x2) (Tracing the evolution of the most massive galaxies in the universe)
2019-2-SCI-002 P3 RSS (Measuring the properites of giant stars in close binaries that may eventually merge and explode.)