Night Log 2026-02-07

SA: Alexei
SO: Austun
Others:

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=> Unstable night with rising humidity. Were closed by humidity at about midnight.

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-LSP-003 P3 RSS (x2) (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)
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 2026-02-06

SA: Alexei
SO: Austun
Others:

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=> Unstable night with with variable situation with clouds and humidity. Anywhere, two P0 blocks were observed as well as many other blocks of different priorities.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 HRS (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2021-2-MLT-004 P1 RSS (x2) (Spectropolarimetric Monitoring of eta Car)
2025-1-MLT-003 P1 HRS (Unraveling the enigmatic variability of AE Cir system with SALT)
2025-2-LSP-003 P2 RSS (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (x2) (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)
2024-2-MLT-001 P3 HRS (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2025-2-SCI-031 P3 RSS (Redshifts of candidate TeV blazars)
2025-2-MLT-001 P4 RSS (Toward a complete census of void galaxy properties in the Local Volume)

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Night Log 2026-02-05

SA: Alexei
SO: Austun
Others:

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=> Unstable weather with growing humidity. Were closed by humidity one hour before midnight. Only three blocks were observed, but one of the priority P0.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-MLT-006 P2 HRS (HRS observations of a high mass binary system.)
2024-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (Stellar Characterisation of Ariel mission targets: derivation of N and O abundances)

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Night Log 2026-02-04

SA: Alexei
SO: Austun
Others:

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=> Night was lost due to bad weather. No any science data were taken.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2026-02-03

SA: Danièl
SO: techops
Others: JC is the operator, Brian, Austun and Alexei (handover)

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Clouds and humidity kept us closed tonight

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2026-02-02

SA: Danièl
SO: techops
Others: JC is the operator, E10 and Michael for basically everything!

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We had a rather eventful evening, with detector failures, problems with the dome control software, and a close call as humidity levels approached the operational limits.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-MLT-010 P1 HRS (SA-China Exoplanet Collaboration PASTA)
2025-1-MLT-001 P2 RSS (x2) (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2025-2-LSP-001 P4 HRS (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)
2025-2-SCI-004 P4 HRS (x2) (observations of ssrAp stars)

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Night Log 2026-02-01

SA: Danièl
SO: techops
Others: JC is the SO, E10 (SDC)

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We had another full night with some technical issues sprinkled in.

Science data taken for:
2025-1-COM-001 P1 HRS (HRS HS Commissioning )
2024-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (Stellar Characterisation of Ariel mission targets: derivation of N and O abundances)
2025-2-SCI-003 P3 HRS (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2025-2-SCI-009 P3 HRS (High resolution spectrocopy of Type II Cepheids)
2025-2-SCI-004 P3 HRS (x2) (observations of ssrAp stars)
2024-1-LSP-001 P3 NIR (x2) (Study of star formation quenching in post-starburst galaxies)
2025-2-SCI-018 P3 NIR (Near-infrared (and one optical) spectra of AGN)
2025-2-LSP-001 P4 HRS (x2) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)
2020-1-MLT-008 P4 RSS (Obtaining redshifts for G4Jy sources - the brightest radio galaxies in the southern sky)

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