Night Log 2017-05-13

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others: Nhlavutelo, Enrico, and ~40 UCT 2nd year Astronomy students (split in 3 groups)

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Summary
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Clear bright night with reasonable seeing. We completed an 2.5 hour long observation, the lengthiest single block I've ever done on SALT.

Data taken for:
2016-2-DDT-008 P0 RSS (Potential supermassive black hole binary in AGN)
2017-1-MLT-010 P1 HRS (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)
2017-1-SCI-040 P1 RSS (x2) (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2017-1-SCI-023 P2 HRS (Pulsational observations of alpha Cir)
2017-1-SCI-058 P2 HRS (x3) (Studying the composition of Binary stars to estimate their ages)
2017-1-MLT-008 P3 RSS (Using Halpha emission to measure chromospheric variability on the coolest stars. )
2017-1-SCI-024 P4 RSS (x2) (Classification of rapidly varying stars)
2017-1-MLT-012 P4 HRS (Detailled study of CEMP stars identified in the RAVE survey)
2017-1-MLT-010 P4 HRS (x3) (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)