Night Log 2025-09-17

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others:

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A full night of science with clear skies and good seeing throughout. We did a much needed throughput test in the middle of the night. Several high priority blocks completed.

Science data taken for:
2025-1-MLT-001 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2023-2-MLT-002 P1 RSS (Constraining galaxy cluster merger geometries and timescales)
2019-1-COM-001 P1 SCAM (Burst-mirror throughput test )
2025-1-SCI-026 P1 RSS (Measuring chemical abundances in the Magellanic Bridge; a glimpse of the past in nearby space. )
2025-1-MLT-007 P1 HRS (Age Dating UMa)
2025-1-SCI-015 P2 RSS (Probing the large-scale gas flows im and around galaxies)
2025-1-SCI-028 P2 RSS (Determining orbital periods for ultracompact binaries)
2025-1-MLT-005 P2 RSS (x2) (Study the most metal-poor void dwarf galaxies)
2025-1-SCI-004 P3 HRS (High resolution spectrocopy of Type II Cepheids)
2023-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2025-1-SCI-003 P3 HRS (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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Night Log 2025-09-16

SA: Lee
SO: Nomzamo
Others:

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Night lost to weather.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2025-09-15

SA: Lee
SO: Nomzamo
Others:

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Night lost to weather.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2025-09-14

SA: Lee
SO: Nomzamo
Others:

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Another night of great seeing, albeit with thin cloud this time. We had a full night of science.

Science data taken for:
2024-1-ORP-001 P2 RSS (Double white dwarf candidates)
2025-1-SCI-008 P2 RSS (Monitoring a special sample of quasars showing large continuum variations in their spectra.)
2024-2-MLT-001 P2 HRS (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2025-1-SCI-011 P2 RSS (Radial Velocity measurements of short-period pulsating stars. )
2024-1-SCI-036 P2 RSS (x2) (Studying a Variety of ACT sources with SALT)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (x2) (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)
2025-1-MLT-006 P3 HRS (Search for binary post-AGB stars.)
2025-1-SCI-003 P3 HRS (x2) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)
2025-1-SCI-031 P3 HRS (High resolution spectra to obtain abundances of RR Lyrae stars.)

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Night Log 2025-09-13

SA: Lee
SO: Nomzamo
Others:

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A beautiful, clear night with fabulous seeing and a well behaved telescope. Many high priority blocks were observed.

Science data taken for:
2025-1-SCI-001 P0 RSS (x2) (SALT Spectra of Transients)
2024-2-LSP-001 P1 RSS (x2) (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-LSP-001 P1 HRS (Followup of Transients)
2024-1-ORP-001 P1 RSS (Double white dwarf candidates)
2025-1-SCI-020 P2 RSS (Study the role of Studying Star Formation in HI-Detected Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster)
2024-1-MLT-010 P2 HRS (Stellar Characterisation of Ariel mission targets: derivation of N and O abundances)
2024-2-MLT-001 P2 HRS (x3) (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2025-1-SCI-016 P2 RSS (Probing magnetic field strength in mangnetic CVs)
2025-1-SCI-031 P3 HRS (High resolution spectra to obtain abundances of RR Lyrae stars.)
2025-1-SCI-005 P3 RSS (Variations of Dark Matter Fraction among Galaxies)

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Night Log 2025-09-12

SA: Lee
SO: Nomzamo
Others:

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We lost the first few hours to thick cloud, but had excellent seeing when we did open. We observed mostly high priority blocks.

Science data taken for:
2025-1-MLT-001 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2025-1-SCI-001 P0 RSS (SALT Spectra of Transients)
2024-2-MLT-003 P2 RSS (Photometric Reverberation Mapping of Seyfert AGN)
2025-1-SCI-008 P2 RSS (Monitoring a special sample of quasars showing large continuum variations in their spectra.)
2024-2-SCI-013 P2 RSS (HERBS-138 NIR mapping. Backup: zlens for HERBS-24 and HERBS-28.)
2024-2-MLT-001 P2 HRS (x2) (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2023-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2025-1-SCI-010 P3 HRS (Doppler imaging of the unexplored Southern Ap star)

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Night Log 2025-09-11

SA: Lee
SO: Nomzamo
Others: Wimpie

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We lost most of the night to very poor seeing & high humidity, only completing one block.

Science data taken for:
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)

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