Night Log 2020-12-06

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Night lost to network, followed by high humidity and cloud,

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2020-12-05

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others: Encarni, Deneys

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A roller-coaster night with network problems and terrible seeing preventing us from completing many observations. However, we managed to do 4 blocks, one of which a high priority ToO, with some perseverance. Thanks Encarni and Deneys for your help.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2020-2-MLT-003 P3 HRS (Follow-up of rare SB4 discovered in Gaia-ESO, GALAH and APOGEE)
2020-1-MLT-003 P4 HRS (x2) (Spectroscopic observations of central stars of mid-infrared nebulae)

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Night Log 2020-12-04

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others:

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We battled through bad and variable seeing until around midnight, completing some high priority blocks. A triple blow shortly after midnight was too much for us to continue: The seeing went from bad to terrible, we suffered a fibre outage and were finally closed by weather.

Science data taken for:
2020-2-MLT-009 P1 HRS (Spectroscopic monitoring of candidate white dwarf + Be star binaries.)
2020-1-MLT-002 P1 HRS (HRS study of long-period eclipsing binaries)
2020-2-SCI-042 P1 RSS (Finding young stars and their planets)
2018-2-LSP-001 P2 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2020-2-SCI-011 P2 HRS (Measuring the orbits of double white dwarfs. @_sublunar_)

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Night Log 2020-12-03

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others: Nico, Janus, Richard

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A clear night with below average and variable seeing for most of the time. Both high and low priority blocks observed.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-LSP-001 P1 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2020-2-MLT-009 P1 HRS (Spectroscopic monitoring of candidate white dwarf + Be star binaries.)
2019-2-MLT-004 P2 HRS (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)
2019-1-MLT-008 P2 HRS (HRS monitoring of yellow symbiotic systems)
2020-1-MLT-008 P3 RSS (x2) (Obtaining redshifts for G4Jy sources - the brightest radio galaxies in the southern sky)
2020-2-SCI-037 P3 HRS (Mangetospheric accretion in V899 Mon)
2020-2-SCI-011 P3 HRS (Measuring the orbits of double white dwarfs. @_sublunar_)
2020-2-MLT-006 P3 RSS (SALT Spectroscopic Survey of IR 12MGS Seyfert Galaxies)

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Night Log 2020-12-02

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others:

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A clear and stable night with mostly good seeing and a small amount of time lost to problems. We observed 10 blocks of a mix of priorities.

Science data taken for:
2020-1-MLT-002 P1 HRS (HRS study of long-period eclipsing binaries)
2020-2-SCI-009 P1 RSS (Metallicity of SN sites)
2018-2-LSP-001 P1 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2018-1-MLT-005 P1 HRS (HRS observations of symbiotic stars)
2018-2-MLT-005 P2 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2020-2-MLT-006 P2 RSS (SALT Spectroscopic Survey of IR 12MGS Seyfert Galaxies)
2020-2-SCI-004 P3 HRS (Observations of new roAp stars @dlhwp)
2020-1-MLT-008 P3 RSS (x3) (Obtaining redshifts for G4Jy sources - the brightest radio galaxies in the southern sky)

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Night Log 2020-12-01

SA: Encarni
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Entire night lost to high relative humidity.


No science data taken.

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Night Log 2020-11-30

SA: Encarni
SO: Fred
Others:

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A good clear night with mostly stable seeing. Managed to take 5 P0 (highest priority) blocks tonight - must be a record! :)




Science data taken for:
2020-2-SCI-015 P0 HRS (x3) (RV Followup of TESS Planet Candidates)
2020-1-MLT-007 P0 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far. @_sublunar_)
2018-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2020-1-DDT-009 P1 HRS (Looking for exocomets around Beta Pictoris with SALT)
2020-2-SCI-042 P1 RSS (Finding young stars and their planets)
2019-2-MLT-004 P2 HRS (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)
2020-2-MLT-006 P2 RSS (x2) (SALT Spectroscopic Survey of IR 12MGS Seyfert Galaxies)
2020-2-SCI-030 P2 RSS (x2) (Identifying which heluum-rich hot subdwarfs are binaries)

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