Night Log 2026-02-14

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others:

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The weather made life difficult for us tonight. A strong easterly wind brought very poor seeing for the first half of the night, during which we were limited to mostly P4 blocks. Humidity, cloud and wind closed us around 3 hours before twilight.

Science data taken for:
2021-2-MLT-004 P1 RSS (Spectropolarimetric Monitoring of eta Car)
2023-2-MLT-005 P4 HRS (x2) (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2025-2-MLT-007 P4 RSS (Spectroscopic monitoring of a unique red (?) supergiant in the LMC)
2025-2-LSP-001 P4 HRS (x2) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)
2025-2-SCI-022 P4 RSS (Artificial intelligence identification of extragalactic sources)

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Night Log 2026-02-13

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others:

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We completed 4 blocks before humidity and cloud closed us just before midnight.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-MLT-011 P0 RSS (Obtaining dynamical information and constraining galaxy cluster merger geometries and timescales)
2021-2-MLT-004 P1 RSS (Spectropolarimetric Monitoring of eta Car)
2025-2-SCI-016 P2 RSS (Observing rare and fast transients.)
2025-2-SCI-003 P3 HRS (Cosmic dance of massive triple)

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Night Log 2026-02-12

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others: Lisa, Rudi, Tim

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Night lost to humidity.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2026-02-11

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Night lost to weather.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2026-02-10

SA: Alexei
SO: Austun
Others:

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=> Have some technical problems from the evening. Where closed by humidity after midnight. Observed one P0 block anyway.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2025-2-SCI-025 P2 RSS (RSS spectropolarimetry of Herbig Be stars at H? to trace accretion geometry.)

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Night Log 2026-02-09

SA: Alexei
SO: Austun
Others:

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=> The whole night was lost due to bad weather. No any science data were taken.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2026-02-08

SA: Alexei
SO: Austun
Others:

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=> All night was lost due to bad weather

No science data taken.

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