Night Log 2015-04-06

SA: Brent
SO: Thea
Others: Etienne, Thabelo, Johan

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No observations tonight. Did not open due to high humidity.

Night Log 2015-04-05

SA: Brent
SO: Thea
Others:

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Cloudy and humid night. Closed around 22:10 due to high humidity.

Data taken for:

2014-2-SCI-073 P2 RSS (Monitoring of the SMC LBV S18)
2014-2-SCI-076 P4 SCAM (x5) (Studying the long-term behavior of classical novae after their eruptions)

Night Log 2015-04-04

SA: Brent
SO: Thea
Others: Thabelo, Johan, Pierre

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Payload out of commission tonight and then heavy ridge cloud settled in. No observations tonight.

Night Log 2015-04-03

SA: Brent
SO: Thea
Others: Thabelo, Deon and Keith on phone

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Despite some technical problems we managed to get data for

2014-2-SCI-070 P0 RSS (Spectroscopic follow-up of type Ia supernovae discovered by DES to analyse their spectral properties)
2014-2-SCI-073 P2 RSS (Monitoring of the SMC LBV S18)

before closing up due to high humidity around 21:15.

Night Log 2015-04-02

SA: Brent
SO: Thea
Others:

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Lots of clouds tonight. Managed to take data for:

2014-2-SCI-058 P2 HRS (Accretion in Young Binary Star Systems)
2014-2-SCI-060 P3 RSS (Searching for binaries in unusual central stars of planetary nebulae)
2014-1-MLT-007 P4 RSS (Long term monitoring of circumstellar disk in Be X-ray binaries)
2014-2-SCI-076 P4 SCAM (Studying the long-term behavior of classical novae after their eruptions)

Night Log 2015-04-01

SA: Brent
SO: Thea
Others:

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A lot of cloud tonight. Managed to get some science data for 2014-2-SCI-069 and 2014-1-MLT-007.

Night Log 2015-03-31

SA: �ric
SO: Thea
Others: Brent

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A night where clouds prevented us from observing for a fraction of the night, but we could gather data for:

2014-2-SCI-007 P3 RSS (Identifying the age of the Argus moving group using the lithium depletion boundary)
2014-1-MLT-007 P4 RSS (x3) (Long term monitoring of circumstellar disk in Be X-ray binaries)
2014-2-MLT-003 P4 RSS (x3) (Study, and detailed classification, of a number of proposed very cool astronomical objects)