Night Log 2026-03-14

SA: Antoine
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Most of the night was lost due to the clouds, and we only manged to observer 5 blocks.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P2 HRS (Followup of Transients)
2025-2-MLT-006 P3 RSS (Study of galaxy properties of galaxy group HIPASS 1059-09)
2025-2-SCI-003 P3 HRS (x3) (Cosmic dance of massive triple)

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Night Log 2026-03-13

SA: Antoine
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Due to thick and dark clouds, we only managed to observe three blocks.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-MLT-011 P1 RSS (x2) (Obtaining dynamical information and constraining galaxy cluster merger geometries and timescales)
2025-2-LSP-003 P3 RSS (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)

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Night Log 2026-03-12

SA: Antoine
SO: Veronica
Others:

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The night was cut short by dark clouds. We had good seeing until then, and managed to observed many blocks with different priorities.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-SCI-006 P1 HRS (Measuring Lithium abundances in UMa candidate stars)
2025-1-MLT-001 P2 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2025-2-MLT-004 P2 HRS (Radial Velocity Monitoring and Atmospheric Parameters Study of Yellow Symbiotic Giants)
2025-2-MLT-013 P2 RSS (Searching for double hydrogen-deficient stars)
2024-2-LSP-001 P2 HRS (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-MLT-001 P3 HRS (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2025-2-SCI-003 P3 HRS (x3) (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2025-2-SCI-019 P3 RSS (Probing CGM Response to Quasar Variability)
2024-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (Stellar Characterisation of Ariel mission targets: derivation of N and O abundances)

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Night Log 2026-03-11

SA: Antoine
SO: Veronica
Others: Lisa, John, Malcolm and LFC team

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A full night of observing in relatively good seeing conditions to start off our week. We managed to observed many blocks with different priorities. No technical downtime tonight.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-MLT-006 P1 HRS (HRS observations of a high mass binary system.)
2025-2-MLT-011 P1 RSS (x2) (Obtaining dynamical information and constraining galaxy cluster merger geometries and timescales)
2024-2-LSP-001 P2 HRS (Followup of Transients)
2025-1-MLT-001 P2 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2025-2-MLT-004 P2 HRS (Radial Velocity Monitoring and Atmospheric Parameters Study of Yellow Symbiotic Giants)
2025-2-LSP-003 P2 RSS (x4) (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2025-2-SCI-006 P2 HRS (Measuring Lithium abundances in UMa candidate stars)
2025-2-MLT-013 P2 RSS (Searching for double hydrogen-deficient stars)
2025-2-SCI-001 P3 RSS (x2) (Observational program to srudy variations of Dark Matter Fraction among Galaxies)
2024-2-MLT-001 P3 HRS (x2) (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)

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Night Log 2026-03-10

SA: Moses
SO: techops
Others: Gideon (SO), Michael, Antoine, Veronica, LFC team, Students, Rudi

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It was a night... we managed to observe many blocks inbetween a few problems and some reasonably stable conditions.

Science data taken for:
2025-2-MLT-011 P0 RSS (x2) (Obtaining dynamical information and constraining galaxy cluster merger geometries and timescales)
2024-2-COM-002 P1 RSS (This is a commissioning proposal)
2025-2-MLT-012 P2 HRS (Search for binary stars which may form planetary nebulae.)
2024-2-LSP-001 P2 HRS (Followup of Transients)
2025-2-SCI-014 P3 RSS (x3) (We are probing the large scale outflows in bright quasars through absorption spectroscopy.)
2025-2-SCI-001 P3 RSS (Observational program to srudy variations of Dark Matter Fraction among Galaxies)
2025-2-LSP-001 P4 HRS (x2) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)
2025-2-SCI-033 P4 HRS (Two transiting TESS triple planet systems composed of super-Earths involved in two-body 3:2 MMRs.)

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Night Log 2026-03-09

SA: Moses
SO: techops
Others: Gideon (SO), Austun, Rudi, Michael, Wimpie

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We had a relatively smooth night with good seeing and thin cloud to clear conditions. We managed to observe many blocks of mixed priorities.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2025-2-SCI-019 P2 RSS (Probing CGM Response to Quasar Variability)
2025-2-SCI-009 P2 HRS (High resolution spectrocopy of Type II Cepheids)
2025-2-SCI-031 P2 RSS (Redshifts of candidate TeV blazars)
2025-2-MLT-006 P3 RSS (Study of galaxy properties of galaxy group HIPASS 1059-09)
2025-2-SCI-014 P3 RSS (x4) (We are probing the large scale outflows in bright quasars through absorption spectroscopy.)
2023-2-MLT-005 P4 RSS (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)

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Night Log 2026-03-08

SA: Moses
SO: techops
Others: Gideon (SO), Wimpie, LFC team

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We had a clear night with variable seeing and we managed to observe many blocks of mixed priority.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2025-2-SCI-014 P1 RSS (x2) (We are probing the large scale outflows in bright quasars through absorption spectroscopy.)
2024-2-COM-002 P1 RSS (This is a commissioning proposal)
2025-1-MLT-002 P2 RSS (Tracking Accretion Flows via BLR Emission in Changing-Look Active Galactic Nuclei)
2025-2-SCI-009 P2 HRS (High resolution spectrocopy of Type II Cepheids)
2025-2-LSP-003 P2 RSS (x2) (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2025-1-MLT-003 P2 HRS (Unraveling the enigmatic variability of AE Cir system with SALT)
2025-2-MLT-006 P3 RSS (Study of galaxy properties of galaxy group HIPASS 1059-09)
2025-2-SCI-010 P3 RSS (Optical spectroscopy of blazars for the CTAO project)
2025-2-SCI-003 P3 HRS (Cosmic dance of massive triple)
2021-2-MLT-004 P4 RSS (Spectropolarimetric Monitoring of eta Car)
2025-2-LSP-001 P4 HRS (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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