Night Log 2020-09-06

SA: Rudi
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Managed to get a few low priority blocks before the humidity forced us to close.

Science data taken for:
2020-1-SCI-023 P3 HRS (x2) (Probing the binarity of a sample of galactic proto-planetary nebulae)
2019-2-SCI-006 P4 HRS (Investigating the multiplicity of WR stars)

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Night Log 2020-09-05

SA: Rudi
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Lost the entire night to bad weather.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2020-09-04

SA: Rudi
SO: Fred
Others: Alexei at the beginning, Eben

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Managed to get a few blocks observed before the clouds forced us to close.

Science data taken for:
2019-2-MLT-001 P1 RSS (Study of polarization in blazars.)
2019-2-SCI-031 P4 HRS (Study of RV Tauri stars without a circumbinary disc.)
2020-1-SCI-023 P4 HRS (x2) (Probing the binarity of a sample of galactic proto-planetary nebulae)

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Night Log 2020-09-03

SA: Rosalind
SO: Fred
Others:

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A good night of observing with fairly stable seeing and some thin cloud, making a nice change from the poor weather earlier in the week. We observed 17 blocks including some of high priority (a P0 and 4 P1s).

Science data taken for:
2020-1-MLT-007 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far. @_sublunar_)
2018-1-MLT-005 P1 HRS (x4) (HRS observations of symbiotic stars)
2018-2-LSP-001 P1 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2020-1-SCI-030 P2 RSS (x2) (Understanding the recent star-formation in Magellanic Bridge. )
2019-2-MLT-004 P2 RSS (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)
2018-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2020-1-SCI-023 P3 HRS (Probing the binarity of a sample of galactic proto-planetary nebulae)
2020-1-SCI-012 P4 HRS (Chemically peculiar Am stars observed by TESS satellite on the southern sky.)
2020-1-SCI-001 P4 RSS (Measuring the properites of giant stars in close binaries that may eventually merge and explode.)
2019-1-MLT-003 P4 RSS (x4) (A SALT survey of chemically-peculiar hot subdwarfs.)

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Night Log 2020-09-02

SA: Rosalind
SO: Fred
Others:

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Most of the night was lost to high humidity, but we observed a few low priority blocks at the start of the night and a couple of higher priority ones end.

Science data taken for:
2020-1-SCI-007 P1 HRS (Observations os new roAp stars)
2020-1-SCI-030 P2 RSS (Understanding the recent star-formation in Magellanic Bridge. )
2019-2-SCI-006 P4 HRS (Investigating the multiplicity of WR stars)
2020-1-SCI-014 P4 HRS (x2) (Searching for new chemically peculiar stars in the southern hemisphere.)
2020-1-SCI-023 P4 HRS (x2) (Probing the binarity of a sample of galactic proto-planetary nebulae)
2020-1-SCI-008 P4 HRS (Searching for dormant black holes in binary systems)

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Night Log 2020-09-01

SA: Rosalind
SO: Fred
Others:

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Most of the night was lost to clouds and high humidity. We managed to observe 4 blocks in between with moderate to poor seeing.

Science data taken for:
2019-2-SCI-031 P2 HRS (Study of RV Tauri stars without a circumbinary disc.)
2020-1-SCI-021 P3 HRS (x2) (Constraining stellar parameters of Galactic and SMC massive binaries)
2019-2-MLT-004 P3 RSS (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)

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Night Log 2020-08-31

SA: Rosalind
SO: Fred
Others: Etienne for RSS error

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A somewhat frustrating night with clouds preventing us from getting much data, and some technical downtime. We observed 7 blocks of mixed priorities.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-LSP-001 P1 HRS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2020-1-SCI-023 P3 HRS (Probing the binarity of a sample of galactic proto-planetary nebulae)
2018-2-MLT-005 P3 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2020-1-MLT-003 P4 HRS (Spectroscopic observations of central stars of mid-infrared nebulae)
2019-2-SCI-006 P4 HRS (x3) (Investigating the multiplicity of WR stars)

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