Night Log 2026-02-17

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others: Fred, Antoine, Thor, Lizette

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The thunderstorms from earlier in the day eventually cleared out and left us with just over half the night to observe with clear skies and good seeing. We completed 6 high priority dark moon blocks.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2025-2-MLT-006 P1 RSS (Study of galaxy properties of galaxy group HIPASS 1059-09)
2025-2-MLT-009 P1 RSS (x2) (Spectroscopy of ultra-diffuse galaxies)
2021-2-MLT-004 P1 RSS (Spectropolarimetric Monitoring of eta Car)
2025-2-SCI-023 P1 RSS (Measuring the orbit and disc of a neutron star X-ray binary)

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Night Log 2026-02-16

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Night lost to weather.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2026-02-15

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others:

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We finally got a full night on sky! The seeing was not great again though, and especially bad after midnight. This restricted us to low priority blocks for a while, but we still managed several higher priority blocks in patches of better seeing.

Science data taken for:
2021-2-MLT-004 P1 RSS (Spectropolarimetric Monitoring of eta Car)
2025-1-COM-001 P1 HRS (HRS HS Commissioning )
2025-2-SCI-014 P1 RSS (We are probing the large scale outflows in bright quasars through absorption spectroscopy.)
2024-2-MLT-006 P2 HRS (HRS observations of a high mass binary system.)
2024-1-MLT-001 P2 RSS (Study of the outer parts of lenticular galaxies.)
2025-1-MLT-001 P2 RSS (x2) (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2025-2-SCI-004 P3 HRS (observations of ssrAp stars)
2025-2-SCI-006 P3 HRS (x2) (Measuring Lithium abundances in UMa candidate stars)
2025-2-SCI-003 P3 HRS (x3) (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2023-2-MLT-005 P4 HRS (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2025-2-LSP-001 P4 HRS (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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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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