SA: Nikki SO: Veronica Others: Sam & E10 for cooling issues, E10 for pdet problem, Antoine for SMI & slot mode blocks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It was a clear night with stable seeing. We managed to observe several blocks of varying priority. Science data taken for: 2026-1-MLT-008 P0 RSS (Studying nearby starburst galaxies and LIRGs with the SALT IFU) 2024-2-COM-002 P1 RSS (This is a commissioning proposal) 2026-1-SCI-002 P1 HRS (detached eclipsing binaries for PLATO mission) 2026-1-SCI-015 P2 RSS (x2) (Investigation of activity among main-belt objects) 2026-1-SCI-007 P2 RSS (Observations of Rare and Fast Transients and their Hosts) 2026-1-SCI-012 P2 RSS (Probing circular polarisation from mCVs) 2026-1-SCI-006 P2 RSS (Longslit spectroscopic observations of the Cosmic Ammonite gravitational lens) 2025-2-MLT-012 P3 HRS (Search for binary stars which may form planetary nebulae.) 2026-1-SCI-027 P3 HRS (Determining the metallicity of bulge Type II Cepheids) 2023-2-MLT-005 P4 RSS (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere) ------------------------------------------------------------------------
