Saturday, May 7, 2011

Nightlog 2011-05-06

SA: David
SO: Zolisa
Others: Ken, Ted, Nic, John, Marsha, Brent, Eben, Amanda, Charl....uncle Tom Cobbly & all

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- Clearing at sunset, but RH increased and eventually had to close early (@ ~20:30), so no on-sky observations.

- RSS tests (Fabry-Perot and autocoll stray light)

- SALTICAM repeat filter tests (successful)

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Friday, May 6, 2011

Nightlog 2011-05-05

SA: Paul
SO: Zolisa
Others: Janus, Anthony, Ken, Ted, Nic, John, Marsha, David

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- Clouded out tonight. Ted got more Fabry-Perot engineering data.


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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Nightlog 2011-05-04

SA: Paul
SO: Zolisa
Others: Janus, Anthony, Ken, Ted, Nic, John, Marsha

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- Main task of the night was to get the RSS guide probe working, which was
successful. We now have guiding for the RSS.


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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Nightlog 2011-05-03

SA: Amanda
SO: Patrick
Others: Paul, Anthony, Janus, Ken, Eric, Marsha, Ted, John, Nic, Lisa

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- Cloudy and high humidity all night. Took engineering data for RSS
and SALTICAM.

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Nightlog 2011-05-02

SA: Amanda
SO: Patrick
Others: Paul, Anthony, Janus, Ken, Eric, Marsha, Ted, John, Nic

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- We were encased in cloud all night. No observations on sky, took
RSS engineering data.

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Monday, May 2, 2011

Nightlog 2011-05-01

SA: Amanda
SO: Patrick
Others: Ken, Anthony, Paul, Eric, Marsha, Ted, John

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- Welcome to the Fabry-Perot team from Wisconsin!

- Observed the first half of the night, the second was lost to clouds
and high humidity.

- Took data for RSS ToO T Pyx (2011-2-UW-002) and RSS commissioning
(2011-2-UW-001).

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Sunday, May 1, 2011

Nightlog 2011-04-30

SA: Amanda
SO: Patrick
Others: Ken, Eric, Anthony, Charl

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- Clear night with fair to bad seeing. Observations all night!

- Took data for RSS ToO T Pyx (2011-2-UW-002), and SALTICAM ToO 4U
1636-536 (2007-1-RSA-006), and RSS commissioning (2011-2-UW-001),

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