Night Log 2017-12-24

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others: Tamara for cappuccino

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Summary
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=> Grey-dark Christmas night with very good seeing and rising humidity. We were closed by humidity at about 45min before twilight.

=> Santa Claus was detected at about midnight time, flying in the direction of Cape Town with HUGE amount of presents.

Science data taken for:
2017-2-SCI-033 P1 SCAM (Dark energy and the expansion rate of the Universe from quasar monitoring.)
2017-1-MLT-003 P2 RSS (x2) (Intermediate mass black holes in star-forming galaxies)
2017-2-SCI-051 P2 RSS (spectroscopic identification of ultra compact binary candidates)
2017-2-MLT-006 P2 HRS (Studying the composition of Binary stars to estimate their ages)
2017-2-SCI-022 P3 HRS (Measuring the interstellar abundance of lithium in the Large Magellanic Cloud)
2017-2-SCI-012 P3 HRS (The Origin and Fate of Very Fast Rotators among Evolved Massive Stars)
2017-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)
2017-2-SCI-042 P3 RSS (The central molecular zones of southern galaxies)
2017-1-MLT-001 P4 HRS (Study of long-period eclipsing binaries)