Night Log 2012-10-07

SA: Paul
SO: Fred
Others:

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- entire night lost to bad weather

Night Log 2012-10-06

SA: Paul
SO: Fred
Others: Simon for a while

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- cloudy night, had one clear patch and obtained data for:
- 2012-1-UNC_RSA_RU-001

Night Log 2012-10-05

SA: Paul
SO: Fred
Others:

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- frustrating night with a few technical issues. still getting the hang of the new observing setup. closed just before one due to cloud.

* obtained data for:
- 2012-1-RSA_OTH-030

Night Log 2012-10-04

SA: Paul
SO: Fred
Others: Janus, Deneys, Anthony

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- not a very productive night. had some technical issues during the night. closed right after 02:00 due to rising humidity.
- did some more BCAM testing and its looking good for now. have not tried very faint targets yet.

* obtained data for the following programs:
- 2012-1-GU-003
- 2012-1-RSA-014
- 2012-1-UNC-001

Night Log 2012-10-03

SA: Paul
SO: Fred
Others:

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- no observations tonight due to strong winds and high humidity.

Night Log 2012-10-02

SA: Paul
SO: Fred
Others: Software team: Janus, Anthony, Denyes

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- BCAM was tested for slit viewing tonight. From the one observation we did, all looked good for a fairly bright target. Bright moon and cloudy conditions did not allow us to test the BCAM performance on fainter targets.
- The functionality to move the guide probe from BCAM has also been implemented and guide probe movements from PDET are spot on.
- Anthony implemented sound on PCON with R2D2 announcing the end of a procedure... cool...

* accepted observations for the following program:
- 2012-1-IUCAA_RSA_OTH-001

Night Log 2012-09-30

SA: Petri
SO: Siphelo
Others: Charl

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Excellent seeing until midnight, but thin and thick cirrus all
night with the bright moon made things a bit challenging,
with some gaps in observing. Science for:

2012-1-POL-011
2012-1-RSA-010 (x3)
2012-1-RSA-009
2012-1-RU_UNC-001 (FP x2)
2012-1-POL-001
2012-1-RSA-014
2012-1-RSA_UKSC-005
2012-1-RU-008 (FP)

The next few nights will be engineering.