Night Log 2017-12-06

SA: Marissa
SO: Veronica
Others: Ockert & Fred (for Dome seeing)

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Rain at sunset, followed by a partly cloudy night with bad seeing.

Science data taken for:
2017-2-SCI-026 P1 RSS (Study of late-time supernovae spectra)
2017-1-MLT-001 P2 HRS (Study of long-period eclipsing binaries)
2017-2-SCI-030 P3 HRS (Metal-Poor Subdwarfs for Stellar Modeling Calibration)
2017-1-MLT-012 P3 HRS (x2) (Detailled study of CEMP stars identified in the RAVE survey)
2017-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)
2017-1-MLT-005 P3 HRS (x3) (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to open clusters and associations)
2017-2-SCI-010 P3 RSS (x3) (Characterising Pulsating Stars @dlhwp)
2017-2-SCI-022 P4 HRS (Measuring the interstellar abundance of lithium in the Large Magellanic Cloud)

Night Log 2017-12-05

SA: Petri
SO: Thea
Others: Marissa, Enrico, Fred, Lisa, Ockert, Clifford

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Terrible seeing, but mostly clear, and successfully observed many
targets until 2 am when humidity finally forced us to close.

SALT Ops wishes Finland a very happy 100 years of Independence today!

Science data taken for:
2017-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (x2) (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)
2017-2-SCI-030 P3 HRS (x6) (Metal-Poor Subdwarfs for Stellar Modeling Calibration)
2017-2-SCI-020 P4 RSS (x2) (Looking at chromospheric emission in stars which host exoplanets)
2017-1-MLT-012 P4 HRS (x3) (Detailled study of CEMP stars identified in the RAVE survey)

Night Log 2017-12-04

SA: Petri
SO: Thea
Others: Ockert, Swiss Ambassador + 4

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Lost nearly half the night to high humidity, but got lots of suitable
science (read bright stars) done before that while battling with
clouds and poor seeing.

Science data taken for:
2017-2-SCI-010 P3 RSS (Characterising Pulsating Stars @dlhwp)
2017-2-SCI-030 P3 HRS (x4) (Metal-Poor Subdwarfs for Stellar Modeling Calibration)
2017-1-MLT-005 P3 HRS (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to open clusters and associations)
2017-2-SCI-022 P3 HRS (x2) (Measuring the interstellar abundance of lithium in the Large Magellanic Cloud)
2017-2-SCI-021 P4 HRS (Spectroscopic investigation of selected southern lambda Boo - type stars)
2017-1-MLT-010 P4 HRS (x2) (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)

Night Log 2017-12-03

SA: Petri
SO: Thea
Others:

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A productive night under the Supermoon. Highly variable seeing,
though saw some sub-arcsec moments. Humidity finally rose, forcing
us to close just 25 min before twilight. No technical troubles.

Science data taken for:
2017-2-SCI-017 P1 HRS (HRS observations of symbiotic stars)
2017-2-SCI-051 P1 RSS (spectroscopic identification of ultra compact binary candidates)
2017-1-MLT-005 P3 HRS (x2) (Spectroscopic investigations of Cepheids and stars belonging to open clusters and associations)
2017-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)
2017-2-SCI-029 P3 HRS (Spectroscopy of TESS targets)
2017-2-SCI-014 P3 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2017-2-SCI-022 P3 HRS (Measuring the interstellar abundance of lithium in the Large Magellanic Cloud)
2017-2-SCI-030 P3 HRS (x4) (Metal-Poor Subdwarfs for Stellar Modeling Calibration)

Night Log 2017-12-02

SA: Petri
SO: Thea
Others: David dB

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Clear night again, first half with average seeing, then hours of great
seeing. Managed to tweak telescope image quality to match that as
well, a very productive night.

Science data taken for:
2017-2-SCI-022 P2 HRS (x3) (Measuring the interstellar abundance of lithium in the Large Magellanic Cloud)
2017-2-SCI-001 P2 RSS (Line profile variations in RX J0622.6-2318)
2017-2-SCI-030 P3 HRS (x4) (Metal-Poor Subdwarfs for Stellar Modeling Calibration)
2017-2-SCI-014 P3 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2017-1-MLT-001 P3 HRS (Study of long-period eclipsing binaries)
2017-2-SCI-010 P3 RSS (Characterising Pulsating Stars @dlhwp)

Night Log 2017-12-01

SA: Petri
SO: Thea
Others:

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Night started cloudy, but cleared up after 10pm. Variable seeing,
occasionally very good, bright moon, did lots of science suitable for
those conditions.

Science data taken for:
2017-2-SCI-022 P2 HRS (x4) (Measuring the interstellar abundance of lithium in the Large Magellanic Cloud)
2017-2-SCI-014 P3 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2017-2-MLT-006 P3 HRS (Studying the composition of Binary stars to estimate their ages)
2017-2-SCI-010 P3 RSS (x2) (Characterising Pulsating Stars @dlhwp)
2017-2-SCI-029 P3 HRS (Spectroscopy of TESS targets)
2017-2-SCI-020 P4 RSS (Looking at chromospheric emission in stars which host exoplanets)

Night Log 2017-11-30

SA: Petri
SO: Thea
Others:

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Another totally clear night, with bright moon, and this time with mostly
good seeing too. Very productive.

Science data taken for:
2017-2-SCI-051 P1 RSS (x2) (spectroscopic identification of ultra compact binary candidates)
2016-2-MLT-005 P1 HRS (Investigating the chemical composition of bright star beta Pic and its nearby circumstellar material)
2017-2-SCI-022 P2 HRS (x3) (Measuring the interstellar abundance of lithium in the Large Magellanic Cloud)
2017-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (x2) (Searching for evolved binary stars with long orbital periods)
2017-2-SCI-040 P3 RSS (Searching for new symbiotic stars)
2017-2-SCI-010 P3 RSS (Characterising Pulsating Stars @dlhwp)
2017-2-SCI-030 P3 HRS (Metal-Poor Subdwarfs for Stellar Modeling Calibration)