SA: Alexei SO: Veronica Others: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ => Unstable night with high humidity at the beginning. Opened after two hours and observed the rest of the night with very good seeing. Mainly high priority blocks were observed. Science data taken for: 2026-1-SCI-001 P1 HRS (Tracing evolution of recent stellar merger remnants) 2025-2-MLT-004 P1 HRS (Radial Velocity Monitoring and Atmospheric Parameters Study of Yellow Symbiotic Giants) 2026-1-SCI-004 P1 HRS (Studying the variable stellar winds of Wolf-Rayet stars) 2026-1-SCI-005 P2 HRS (x3) (na) 2025-2-MLT-012 P2 HRS (Search for binary stars which may form planetary nebulae.) 2026-1-SCI-021 P2 HRS (Charcaterizing eclisping binaries that have experienced unstable mass transfer) 2026-1-SCI-017 P2 HRS (Studying how outburst accretions stop in protoplanetary discs) 2024-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (Stellar Characterisation of Ariel mission targets: derivation of N and O abundances) ------------------------------------------------------------------------
SALT Astronomy
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Night Log 2026-06-12
SA: Alexei SO: Veronica Others: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ => The whole night was lost due to bad weather No science data taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Friday, June 12, 2026
Night Log 2026-06-10
SA: Alexei SO: Veronica Others: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ => The whole night was lost due to IT problems No science data taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Night Log 2026-06-09
SA: Danièl SO: Gideon Others: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ => The whole night was lost due to IT problems. No any data were taken. No science data taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Night Log 2026-06-11
SA: Alexei SO: Veronica Others: Daniel, Encarni and Christian remotely ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ => The whole night was lost due to IT problems and weather. No science data taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Night Log 2026-06-08
SA: Danièl SO: Gideon Others: Nico (quick mirror check), Shamiel and Thabelo (TCS and then for PDET) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thick clouds and high humidity kept us closed for the night. No science data taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Monday, June 8, 2026
Night Log 2026-06-07
SA: Danièl SO: Gideon Others: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The thick clouds made observing difficult tonight, although we did manage to observe 9 blocks. Science data taken for: 2024-2-COM-002 P1 RSS (This is a commissioning proposal) 2025-1-MLT-004 P1 RSS (x2) (Near-UV and visible spectroscopy of the primitive asteroids) 2024-2-LSP-001 P2 HRS (Followup of Transients) 2026-1-SCI-005 P2 HRS (na) 2026-1-MLT-002 P3 HRS (x2) (HRS-MR spectra of Classical Cepheids ) 2026-1-MLT-006 P4 RSS (Search for new Galactic symbiotic stars) 2025-2-LSP-001 P4 HRS (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue) ------------------------------------------------------------------------