Night Log 2025-12-31

SA: Lee
SO: Nomzamo
Others:

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We lost most of the night to cloud, but opened after midnight to complete the first 4 blocks of 2026 with good seeing. Happy new year!

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-003 P2 HRS (x3) (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2025-2-MLT-008 P2 HRS (Monitoring beta Pic for exocomets.)

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Night Log 2025-12-30

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> Stable night with good seeing. Many high priorities blocks were observed.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-003 P1 HRS (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2025-2-SCI-014 P2 RSS (We are probing the large scale outflows in bright quasars through absorption spectroscopy.)
2025-2-SCI-009 P2 HRS (High resolution spectrocopy of Type II Cepheids)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (x2) (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)
2025-2-SCI-004 P3 HRS (observations of ssrAp stars)
2025-2-LSP-003 P3 RSS (x2) (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)

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Night Log 2025-12-29

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> Nice stable night with moderate and stable seeing. Many high priority blocks were observed.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-003 P1 HRS (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2025-2-SCI-014 P2 RSS (We are probing the large scale outflows in bright quasars through absorption spectroscopy.)
2025-2-MLT-012 P2 HRS (Search for binary stars which may form planetary nebulae.)
2024-2-MLT-006 P2 HRS (HRS observations of a high mass binary system.)
2025-2-SCI-016 P2 RSS (Observing rare and fast transients.)
2025-2-MLT-008 P2 HRS (Monitoring beta Pic for exocomets.)
2025-2-SCI-006 P2 HRS (Measuring Lithium abundances in UMa candidate stars)
2025-2-MLT-010 P2 HRS (SA-China Exoplanet Collaboration PASTA)
2025-2-SCI-005 P3 HRS (Observing, how disc-atmosphere inhomogeneities are rotating around the forming star)
2025-2-SCI-027 P3 HRS (detached eclipsing binaries for PLATO mission)

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Night Log 2025-12-28

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> Stable night with with slow rising humidity and moderate to bad seeing. The low priority blocks were observed for this reason

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-032 P1 RSS (Low resolution spectra of blue, low-mass galaxies to determine redshifts/velocities)
2025-2-SCI-020 P3 RSS (x2) (Uncovering the nature of new X-ray objects discovered in the Magellanic system with eROSITA)
2025-2-LSP-003 P3 RSS (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2025-2-SCI-001 P3 RSS (Observational program to srudy variations of Dark Matter Fraction among Galaxies)
2025-2-MLT-013 P3 RSS (Searching for double hydrogen-deficient stars)
2025-2-SCI-031 P3 RSS (x2) (Redshifts of candidate TeV blazars)
2025-2-SCI-014 P3 RSS (We are probing the large scale outflows in bright quasars through absorption spectroscopy.)

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Night Log 2025-12-27

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> Nice night with moderate seeing and slowly rising humidity. We were closed by humidity in one hour before twilight. Mainly low priority blocks were observed.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-031 P3 RSS (x2) (Redshifts of candidate TeV blazars)
2025-2-MLT-002 P3 RSS (x2) (Study of ionized gas in star-forming dwarf ring galaxies)
2025-2-SCI-020 P3 RSS (x2) (Uncovering the nature of new X-ray objects discovered in the Magellanic system with eROSITA)
2025-2-MLT-001 P4 RSS (Toward a complete census of void galaxy properties in the Local Volume)

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Night Log 2025-12-26

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> Unstable night with clouds and high humidity. Only one block was observed because such bad weather.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-020 P3 RSS (Uncovering the nature of new X-ray objects discovered in the Magellanic system with eROSITA)

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Night Log 2025-12-25

SA: Alexei
SO: Veronica
Others:

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=> Unstable night with rising humidity. Were closed by humidity after midnight. Some low priority blocks were observed.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-020 P3 RSS (Uncovering the nature of new X-ray objects discovered in the Magellanic system with eROSITA)
2025-2-MLT-002 P3 RSS (Study of ionized gas in star-forming dwarf ring galaxies)
2025-2-LSP-003 P3 RSS (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)

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