Night Log 2017-01-06

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others: Tamara for a short

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=> Very unstable night with high humidity and bad seeing. Were closed less than two hours after twilight.

=> Data were taken for programs:
2016-2-MLT-005 P1 HRS (Investigating the chemical composition of the bright star Beta Pic with it's circumstellar disk )
2016-1-MLT-003 P3 RSS (Spectroscopic observations of bright RR Lyrae variables)
2016-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)

Night Log 2017-01-05

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others: Tamara for a short

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=> Thunderstorm during the day results high humidity and bad seeing. Only one hour of observations before we were closed by humidity.

=> Data were taken for programs:
2016-1-MLT-003 P3 RSS (Spectroscopic observations of bright RR Lyrae variables)
2016-1-MLT-002 P3 HRS (Analysis of metallicity gradient and local chemical composition heterogeneity in the Galactic disk)

Night Log 2017-01-04

SA: Alexei
SO: Fred
Others: Tamara for a short

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=> Unstable night with fields of clouds and growing humidity, closing telescope finally. Some technical problems as well.

=> Data were taken for programs:
2016-1-MLT-005 P1 RSS (Multi-slit spectroscopy of edge-on galaxies)
2016-2-SCI-003 P2 HRS (x3) (Evolved binaries in the Magellanic Clouds)
2016-1-MLT-003 P3 RSS (Spectroscopic observations of bright RR Lyrae variables)

Night Log 2017-01-03

SA: Petri
SO: Thea
Others: Alexei, Tamara, Oleg, Vaisanen family

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Nearly the full night lost to humidity and ridge cloud. Managed just one
short observation before closing, for:

2016-1-MLT-003 P3 RSS (Spectroscopic observations of bright RR Lyrae variables)

Night Log 2017-01-02

SA: Petri
SO: Thea
Others:

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Whole night lost to clouds, humidity, and bit of rain. Some closed dome
calibrations taken.

Night Log 2017-01-01

SA: Petri
SO: Thea
Others: David, Nico, Minna and kids

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First night of 2017 unfortunately was mostly lost to thick clouds.
Managed to squeeze in a couple of blocks right in the beginning:

2016-2-SCI-003 P2 HRS (Evolved binaries in the Magellanic Clouds)
2016-1-MLT-002 P3 HRS (Analysis of metallicity gradient and local chemical composition heterogeneity in the Galactic disk)
2016-2-SCI-046 P4 RSS (Monitoring the X-ray bright sgB[e] stars in Magellanic Clouds)

Night Log 2016-12-31

SA: Petri
SO: Thea
Others: Ant, David, Nico, Vaisanen family, Puusaari family, Davide

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Happy New Year 2017 everyone!!

The previous year ended, and the new started, on a good note with a
full night of trouble free science. Seeing jumpy again, but otherwise
stable and totally clear.

The honour of first block of 2017 goes to .. Kniazev and edge-on galaxies. Lots of other data too:

2016-2-SCI-050 P0 RSS (Transmission Spectrum and Forward Scattering from Wasp 43b)
2016-1-MLT-005 P1 RSS (Multi-slit spectroscopy of edge-on galaxies)
2016-2-SCI-024 P1 RSS (Dark energy and the expansion rate of the Universe from quasar monitoring.)
2016-2-COM-001 P1 RSS (Polarimetry test proposal)
2016-2-SCI-017 P1 RSS (Searching for high redshift quasars for the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS))
2016-2-SCI-019 P2 RSS (Measuring Galaxy Kinematics For Construction of the Velocity Function)
2016-2-SCI-003 P2 HRS (x3) (Evolved binaries in the Magellanic Clouds)