Night Log 2016-05-15

SA: Alexei
SO: Thea
Others: Tamara for a while, Ted and Encarni by VNC

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Summary
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=> The first time in SALT history we did not align mirror this evening because new SAMS (active mirror support system) is working! And mirror is in brilliant shape after it was aligned 24h ago!

=> And mirror is in brilliant shape in the morning - after it was aligned 34h ago!

=> Good night with high humidity, but very stable conditions and very good seeing during the whole night.

=> Data were taken for the following programs:
2016-1-COM-002 P1 RSS (x2) (Commissioning RSS-FP-HR on an old nova shell)
2016-1-SCI-015 P1 RSS (x2) (Identifying new ultracompact binary star systems through their spectral characteristics)
2016-1-SCI-027 P1 RSS (The Formation of Compact Stellar Systems - The connection between NSCs, UCDs and cEs.)
2016-1-SCI-038 P2 RSS (Spectra of all variable White Dwarfs observed in the Kelpler K2 survey)
2016-1-MLT-004 P2 HRS (HRS study of hydrogen deficient stars)
2016-1-SCI-061 P2 RSS (Study of ionized gas in galaxies where the centers are obscured by dust.)
2016-1-SCI-012 P2 HRS (Revealing evolved massive stars with Spitzer, WISE and SALT)
2016-1-MLT-003 P3 RSS (x5) (Spectroscopic observations of bright RR Lyrae variables)
2016-1-MLT-002 P3 HRS (Analysis of metallicity gradient and local chemical composition heterogeneity in the Galactic disk)