Night Log 2024-08-30

SA: Lee
SO: Shamin
Others: Danièl (polarimetry cals), Wimpie (payload)

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A beautiful dark, clear and stable night. The seeing was a little worse than average, but quite stable. We completed 11 mostly high priority blocks.

Science data taken for:
2021-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (x2) (Followup of Transients)
2024-1-MLT-001 P2 RSS (x2) (Study of the outer parts of lenticular galaxies.)
2024-1-SCI-024 P2 RSS (Monitoring a special sample of quasars showing large continuum variations in their spectra.)
2024-1-MLT-005 P2 RSS (Study of the metallicity galaxies in voids)
2024-1-SCI-003 P2 RSS (Longslit RSS study of faint, gas-rich dwarf galaxies)
2024-1-MLT-006 P2 HRS (x2) (Monitor the spectral emission lines of these Be binaries.)
2019-1-MLT-008 P2 HRS (HRS monitoring of yellow symbiotic systems)
2024-1-MLT-003 P3 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far. @_sublunar_)

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Night Log 2024-08-29

SA: Lee
SO: Shamin
Others: Eben (RSS)

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It was a fairly productive night back on sky with RSS. We had a few tech issues and modest seeing and IQ, but ticked off a bunch of P0 and high priority blocks that had been waiting on us :-)

Science data taken for:
2021-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (x4) (Followup of Transients)
2024-1-MLT-006 P0 HRS (Monitor the spectral emission lines of these Be binaries.)
2019-1-MLT-008 P1 HRS (HRS monitoring of yellow symbiotic systems)
2024-1-SCI-013 P1 RSS (Probing the quasar outflows.)
2024-1-SCI-003 P2 RSS (Longslit RSS study of faint, gas-rich dwarf galaxies)
2024-1-SCI-006 P2 RSS (Investigating broad H alpha emission in core-collapse supernovae.)
2023-2-MLT-003 P2 RSS (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2024-1-ORP-001 P3 RSS (Double white dwarf candidates)

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Night Log 2024-08-28

SA: Lee
SO: Shamin
Others:

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The telescope was offline tonight due to ongoing work on the RSS grating mechanism. We would have lost most of the night to high humidity anyway.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2024-08-27

SA: Moses
SO: Fred
Others: Austun, Valencia & Interns, Thabelo (for BMS and NIRWALS)

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Lost the whole night due to bad weather

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2024-08-26

SA: Moses
SO: Fred
Others: Austun

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Lost the whole night due to bad weather

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2024-08-25

SA: Moses
SO: Fred
Others: Austun (in control), Danièl (polarimetry cals)

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Managed to observe a mixture of mostly high priority blocks at the start of the night before the strong winds came in and kept us closed for most of the second half of the night.

Science data taken for:
2024-1-DDT-004 P0 None (x2) (NIRWALS observations of the unusual HMXB XTE J1829-098 during its August 2024 X-ray outburst)
2021-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2024-1-COM-001 P1 None (NIRWALS Testing)
2024-1-SCI-024 P2 RSS (Monitoring a special sample of quasars showing large continuum variations in their spectra.)
2023-2-MLT-003 P2 RSS (x2) (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2024-1-ORP-001 P3 RSS (Double white dwarf candidates)

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Night Log 2024-08-24

SA: Moses
SO: Fred
Others: Austun

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Lost the whole night due to bad weather

No science data taken.

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