Sunday, March 31, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-30

SA: Brent
SO: Veronica
Others:

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A fairly good night cut short by thick clouds after 2 am.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-SCI-008 P2 RSS (x3) (Measuring galaxy kinematics for construction of the galaxy velocity function)
2017-1-MLT-003 P2 RSS (Intermediate mass black holes in star-forming galaxies)
2018-2-SCI-036 P2 RSS (Measuring the H-beta line profiles of compact massive starbursts )
2018-2-SCI-021 P3 HRS (HRS spectroscopy of yellow symbiotic systems)
2018-2-SCI-005 P3 HRS (Spectroscopy of TESS targets)
2018-2-SCI-033 P3 RSS ( Exploring helium stars - relics of stellar evolution and pointers to a turbulent history.)
2017-1-MLT-004 P3 RSS (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-29

SA: Brent
SO: Veronica
Others: Keith

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A productive night with quite a few blocks observed. Consistent very good seeing.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-MLT-005 P0 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2018-1-SCI-041 P1 RSS (x2) (Confirmation and redshift determination of galaxy clusters.)
2018-2-SCI-039 P2 RSS (Spectropolarimetric Monitoring of Gamma-Ray Blazars)
2018-2-SCI-036 P2 RSS (x2) (Measuring the H-beta line profiles of compact massive starbursts )
2018-2-SCI-023 P2 RSS (x2) (Measuring the rotation curves of super spirals.)
2018-2-SCI-033 P2 HRS ( Exploring helium stars - relics of stellar evolution and pointers to a turbulent history.)
2018-2-SCI-008 P2 RSS (Measuring galaxy kinematics for construction of the galaxy velocity function)
2018-2-SCI-013 P3 HRS (To study the properties of Galactic Classical Nova systems)
2018-2-SCI-021 P3 HRS (HRS spectroscopy of yellow symbiotic systems)
2018-2-MLT-007 P4 HRS (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)

Friday, March 29, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-28

SA: Brent
SO: Veronica
Others: Richard, Keith, Lucian remotely

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Difficult night with tech issues and clouds, but also good stretches of very good seeing that allowed for some high priority science to be done.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (x2) (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-SCI-020 P1 RSS (x3) (Spectroscopic follow-up of strong gravitational lenses)
2018-2-SCI-008 P2 RSS (x2) (Measuring galaxy kinematics for construction of the galaxy velocity function)
2018-1-MLT-009 P3 HRS (Follow-up of interesting binaries and high-order multiple systems uncovered with the Gaia-ESO Survey)
2018-1-MLT-002 P3 RSS (Long term monitoring of gamma-ray binaries)
2018-2-SCI-021 P3 HRS (x3) (HRS spectroscopy of yellow symbiotic systems)
2018-2-SCI-003 P4 HRS (Characterising the host star and protoplanetary disk environment in nearby young star systems)
2018-2-MLT-007 P4 HRS (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-27

SA: Brent
SO: Veronica
Others: Lots of visitors from NRF board and SAAO

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Very good seeing for most of the night. Clouds became prominent in the second half of the night.

Science data taken for:
2018-1-SCI-046 P1 RSS (We are studying the environments of radio galaxies.)
2018-1-SCI-041 P1 RSS (Confirmation and redshift determination of galaxy clusters.)
2018-2-SCI-020 P2 RSS (Spectroscopic follow-up of strong gravitational lenses)
2018-2-SCI-031 P2 RSS (Kinematics of stars & gas in early type galaxies with obscured nuclei and dusty outflows.)
2018-1-SCI-037 P2 RSS (Reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei.)
2018-2-SCI-035 P2 RSS (Obtain low resolution spectra of two well recent novae, now in quiescence)
2018-2-LSP-001 P2 HRS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-1-MLT-009 P3 HRS (Follow-up of interesting binaries and high-order multiple systems uncovered with the Gaia-ESO Survey)
2017-1-MLT-012 P3 HRS (Detailled study of CEMP stars identified in the RAVE survey)
2018-2-SCI-005 P3 HRS (Spectroscopy of TESS targets)
2018-2-MLT-007 P4 HRS (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-26

SA: Dani��l
SO: Veronica
Others: Brent (for handover), Mark (via phone)

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Cloudy night where only low priority targets were observed.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-SCI-003 P4 HRS (Characterising the host star and protoplanetary disk environment in nearby young star systems)
2018-2-SCI-006 P4 HRS (x3) (Measuring the interstellar abundance of lithium in the Large Magellanic Cloud)
2017-1-MLT-012 P4 HRS (x9) (Detailled study of CEMP stars identified in the RAVE survey)
2017-1-MLT-004 P4 RSS (x2) (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)
2018-2-MLT-007 P4 HRS (x3) (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-25

SA: Dani��l
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Good night with variable seeing, humidity forced us to close early on.

Science data taken for:
2018-1-MLT-004 P1 RSS (Dark energy and the expansion rate of the Universe from quasar monitoring.)
2018-2-LSP-001 P3 HRS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2017-1-MLT-004 P3 RSS (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)
2018-2-MLT-007 P4 HRS (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)

Monday, March 25, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-24

SA: Dani��l
SO: Veronica
Others: Anthony, Jean

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Clear night with stable seeing. High humidity closed us early.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-MLT-003 P1 RSS (Looking at chromospheric emission in stars which host exoplanets)
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-1-SCI-037 P2 RSS (Reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei.)
2018-2-LSP-001 P2 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-1-MLT-009 P3 HRS (x3) (Follow-up of interesting binaries and high-order multiple systems uncovered with the Gaia-ESO Survey)
2018-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (x2) (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2018-2-MLT-007 P4 HRS (x2) (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)

Sunday, March 24, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-23

SA: Dani��l
SO: Veronica
Others: Anthony, Richard, Johan, (Keith, Stephen, Deneys, via phone)

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Technical problems and clouds gave us a late start to the night. We managed to observe a few low priority targets despite this.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-2-LSP-001 P2 HRS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-MLT-004 P3 HRS (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to Galactic open clusters)
2017-1-MLT-012 P3 HRS (x2) (Detailled study of CEMP stars identified in the RAVE survey)
2018-2-MLT-007 P4 HRS (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)
2018-2-SCI-005 P4 HRS (Spectroscopy of TESS targets)
2018-2-SCI-006 P4 HRS (x2) (Measuring the interstellar abundance of lithium in the Large Magellanic Cloud)

Saturday, March 23, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-22

SA: Dani��l
SO: Veronica
Others: Anthony

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Managed to observe a few low priority block despite the clouds. Clouds forced us to close early but we opened up again to observe one last target before twilight.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-2-MLT-004 P3 HRS (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to Galactic open clusters)
2017-1-MLT-012 P3 HRS (Detailled study of CEMP stars identified in the RAVE survey)
2017-1-MLT-004 P3 RSS (x2) (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)
2018-2-SCI-006 P4 HRS (x3) (Measuring the interstellar abundance of lithium in the Large Magellanic Cloud)
2018-2-MLT-007 P4 HRS (x3) (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)

Friday, March 22, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-21

SA: Dani��l
SO: Veronica
Others: Anthony

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Good night with stable seeing. Manage to observe quite a few low priority blocks. Humidity forced us to close a little bit early.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-2-LSP-001 P2 HRS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-MLT-004 P3 HRS (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to Galactic open clusters)
2018-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (x4) (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2018-2-SCI-005 P3 HRS (Spectroscopy of TESS targets)
2018-2-SCI-027 P3 RSS (x2) (Following fast-moving stars found by Gaia. @_sublunar_ @kenjshen)
2018-2-SCI-007 P4 HRS (Metal-Poor Subdwarfs for Stellar Modeling Calibration)

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-20

SA: Dani��l
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Clear night with variable seeing. Observed a few low priority blocks plus a P0.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-DDT-003 P0 HRS (Studies of new heart-beating star)
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2017-1-MLT-004 P3 RSS (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)
2018-2-MLT-004 P3 HRS (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to Galactic open clusters)
2018-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (x3) (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2018-2-SCI-017 P4 RSS (x2) (Characterising pulsating stars @dlhwp)
2018-2-SCI-006 P4 HRS (x3) (Measuring the interstellar abundance of lithium in the Large Magellanic Cloud)
2018-2-MLT-007 P4 HRS (x3) (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-19

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others: Daniel (for Handover)

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Whole night lost to clouds.

No science data taken.

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-18

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others: Johan

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Another night cur short by high humidity. We did managed to get a few blocks observed before we closed.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-1-SCI-037 P2 RSS (Reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei.)
2018-1-MLT-001 P3 HRS (High resolution spectroscopic observations of gamma-ray binaries.)
2018-2-MLT-004 P3 HRS (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to Galactic open clusters)
2018-2-SCI-021 P3 HRS (HRS spectroscopy of yellow symbiotic systems)
2018-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)

Monday, March 18, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-17

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others: Mark, Etienne, Paul

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The night was cut short by high humidity. We did manage to get a few blocks done before we were forced to close.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (x2) (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2018-2-SCI-027 P3 RSS (x2) (Following fast-moving stars found by Gaia. @_sublunar_ @kenjshen)
2018-2-MLT-004 P3 HRS (x2) (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to Galactic open clusters)

Saturday, March 16, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-15

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others:

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Another productive night with some technical problems at the end of the night.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-1-MLT-005 P1 HRS (HRS observations of symbiotic stars)
2018-2-LSP-001 P2 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-SCI-035 P2 RSS (Obtain low resolution spectra of two well recent novae, now in quiescence)
2018-1-MLT-009 P3 HRS (Follow-up of interesting binaries and high-order multiple systems uncovered with the Gaia-ESO Survey)
2018-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2018-1-MLT-001 P3 HRS (High resolution spectroscopic observations of gamma-ray binaries.)
2018-2-SCI-033 P3 HRS ( Exploring helium stars - relics of stellar evolution and pointers to a turbulent history.)
2018-1-MLT-006 P3 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far. @_sublunar_)
2018-2-SCI-021 P3 HRS (HRS spectroscopy of yellow symbiotic systems)

Friday, March 15, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-14

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others: Keith (engineering test at the start of the night)

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A fairly good night, started with some clouds but ended up to be a good one.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-2-SCI-031 P1 RSS (Kinematics of stars & gas in early type galaxies with obscured nuclei and dusty outflows.)
2018-2-SCI-023 P2 RSS (Measuring the rotation curves of super spirals.)
2018-2-SCI-036 P2 RSS (Measuring the H-beta line profiles of compact massive starbursts )
2018-2-SCI-021 P2 HRS (x2) (HRS spectroscopy of yellow symbiotic systems)
2018-2-MLT-007 P2 HRS (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)
2018-1-MLT-008 P3 HRS (Central stars of mid-infrared nebulae discovered with Spitzer and WISE)
2018-2-MLT-004 P3 HRS (x2) (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to Galactic open clusters)
2018-1-MLT-009 P3 HRS (Follow-up of interesting binaries and high-order multiple systems uncovered with the Gaia-ESO Survey)

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-12

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others: Rudi and Thea (for handover), Enrico

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Clear night with excellent seeing.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-DDT-003 P0 HRS (Studies of new heart-beating star)
2018-2-LSP-001 P0 HRS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-SCI-022 P1 RSS (Extended Lyman alpha halos around quasars)
2018-2-MLT-005 P1 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2018-2-SCI-010 P1 RSS (Understanding the nature of Irregular II galaxies.)
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-2-SCI-020 P2 RSS (x3) (Spectroscopic follow-up of strong gravitational lenses)
2018-2-LSP-001 P2 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-SCI-005 P3 HRS (x2) (Spectroscopy of TESS targets)
2018-2-MLT-004 P3 HRS (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to Galactic open clusters)

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-11

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others: Enrico

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Cloudy night with variable seeing.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-SCI-031 P1 RSS (Kinematics of stars & gas in early type galaxies with obscured nuclei and dusty outflows.)
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-2-LSP-001 P2 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-SCI-008 P2 RSS (Measuring galaxy kinematics for construction of the galaxy velocity function)
2018-1-SCI-037 P2 RSS (Reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei.)
2018-1-MLT-008 P3 RSS (Central stars of mid-infrared nebulae discovered with Spitzer and WISE)
2017-1-MLT-004 P3 RSS (x4) (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)
2018-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2018-2-MLT-003 P4 RSS (Looking at chromospheric emission in stars which host exoplanets)

Monday, March 11, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-10

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others: Enrico

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Night lost to weather

No science data taken.

Sunday, March 10, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-09

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others: Enrico

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Night lost to weather.

No science data taken.

Saturday, March 9, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-08

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Night lost to weather

No science data taken.

Friday, March 8, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-07

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others: Enrico

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Most of the night lost to weather.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-2-MLT-004 P3 HRS (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to Galactic open clusters)
2018-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-06

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others: Janus, Stephen Hulme, Paul, Chris, Enrico

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Clear first half with good seeing, followed by cloudy second half.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-1-SCI-037 P2 RSS (Reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei.)
2017-1-MLT-004 P3 RSS (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)
2018-2-MLT-004 P3 HRS (x3) (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to Galactic open clusters)

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-05

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others: Janus, Keith and Steven for a while to make some tests for RSS guider

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=> Stable dark night with moderate and good seeing. Some time from the evening was used for engineering tests and many high priority blocks were observed after that.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (x2) (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-SCI-023 P1 RSS (Measuring the rotation curves of super spirals.)
2018-2-SCI-039 P2 RSS (x2) (Spectropolarimetric Monitoring of Gamma-Ray Blazars)
2017-2-MLT-003 P2 RSS (x3) (Study of the properties of green valley galaxies with high star formation rates)
2018-1-MLT-008 P3 HRS (Central stars of mid-infrared nebulae discovered with Spitzer and WISE)

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-04

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others: Students from Goettingen University, team from CNN, Stephen and Chris for a while

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=> Very short night, when we were closed by humidity in two hours after start. Only commissioning observations were done and one regular block.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-2-LSP-001 P2 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)

Monday, March 4, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-03

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> Another night with mostly sub-arcsecond seeing, but it was jumped up from time to time. because himidity rised all the night. Only high priority blocks were observed.

=> Spectrophotometric standndards and velocity standards were observed during twilights.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-SCI-023 P1 RSS (Measuring the rotation curves of super spirals.)
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-2-SCI-036 P2 RSS (Measuring the H-beta line profiles of compact massive starbursts )
2017-2-MLT-001 P2 RSS (x2) (Spectral survey of candidate unusual nearby void dwarfs)
2018-2-SCI-039 P2 RSS (Spectropolarimetric Monitoring of Gamma-Ray Blazars)
2018-2-SCI-020 P2 RSS (x3) (Spectroscopic follow-up of strong gravitational lenses)

Sunday, March 3, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-02

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> Night with rising humidity. Good conditions at the beginning, but jumps in seeing and we were closed by humidity during second half of the night.
Anyway many high priority blocks were observed.

=> HRS weekly calibrations were done


Science data taken for:
2018-2-SCI-028 P1 RSS (Exploring ultra-diffuse galaxies)
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2018-2-SCI-020 P2 RSS (Spectroscopic follow-up of strong gravitational lenses)
2018-2-LSP-001 P2 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-MLT-007 P2 HRS (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)
2018-2-MLT-004 P3 HRS (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to Galactic open clusters)
2018-2-SCI-030 P3 RSS (Observation of potential high energy emitting active galaxies)

Saturday, March 2, 2019

Night Log 2019-03-01

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> One more stable night with sub-arcsecond seeing. Most of the observed blocks have high priorities.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-SCI-022 P1 RSS (Extended Lyman alpha halos around quasars)
2018-2-SCI-020 P1 RSS (x2) (Spectroscopic follow-up of strong gravitational lenses)
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2017-2-SCI-052 P1 RSS (Spectroscopic confirmation of high-redshift radio galaxy candidates)
2018-2-SCI-028 P1 RSS (Exploring ultra-diffuse galaxies)
2017-2-MLT-001 P2 RSS (Spectral survey of candidate unusual nearby void dwarfs)
2018-2-SCI-039 P2 RSS (Spectropolarimetric Monitoring of Gamma-Ray Blazars)
2018-2-MLT-004 P3 HRS (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to Galactic open clusters)
2018-2-SCI-021 P3 HRS (HRS spectroscopy of yellow symbiotic systems)

Friday, March 1, 2019

Night Log 2019-02-28

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others:

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=> Another very stable night with sub-arcsecond seeing. Most of the blocks were high-priority blocks.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (x2) (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-2-SCI-036 P1 RSS (Measuring the H-beta line profiles of compact massive starbursts )
2018-1-MLT-004 P1 SCAM (Dark energy and the expansion rate of the Universe from quasar monitoring.)
2018-2-COM-001 P1 HRS (x3) (Getting the HRS tuned up for exoplanet science)
2017-2-MLT-003 P2 RSS (x2) (Study of the properties of green valley galaxies with high star formation rates)
2017-2-MLT-001 P2 RSS (Spectral survey of candidate unusual nearby void dwarfs)
2018-2-SCI-008 P3 RSS (Measuring galaxy kinematics for construction of the galaxy velocity function)
2018-1-MLT-008 P3 HRS (Central stars of mid-infrared nebulae discovered with Spitzer and WISE)