Night Log 2020-12-13

SA: Danièl
SO: Fred
Others:

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Productive night with stable seeing in the 2nd half of the night. We managed to complete 10 blocks of mixed priorities.

Science data taken for:
2020-1-MLT-001 P1 RSS (M-sigma relation for a low mass AGNs)
2020-2-SCI-017 P1 RSS (Monitoring the spectropolarimetric behavior of blazars)
2019-1-LSP-001 P1 RSS (Tracing the evolution of the most massive galaxies in the universe)
2020-2-SCI-042 P1 RSS (x2) (Finding young stars and their planets)
2020-1-MLT-002 P1 HRS (HRS study of long-period eclipsing binaries)
2020-2-SCI-010 P2 HRS (Studies of heartbeating stars)
2020-2-SCI-011 P2 HRS (Measuring the orbits of double white dwarfs. @_sublunar_)
2020-2-MLT-006 P3 RSS (x2) (SALT Spectroscopic Survey of IR 12MGS Seyfert Galaxies)

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Night Log 2020-12-12

SA: Danièl
SO: Fred
Others:

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Humidity increased early in the night, closing us just before 10 pm, but we did manage to observe a P0.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)

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Night Log 2020-12-11

SA: Danièl
SO: Fred
Others:

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The clouds kept us closed for the night, but we used the 1st part of the night to run some closed dome tests.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2020-12-10

SA: Danièl
SO: Fred
Others: Jonathan (glycol leak)

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We had productive night with variable seeing, and managed to complete a P0.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2020-2-SCI-015 P0 HRS (x3) (RV Followup of TESS Planet Candidates)
2020-1-MLT-002 P1 HRS (HRS study of long-period eclipsing binaries)
2020-1-MLT-003 P2 HRS (Spectroscopic observations of central stars of mid-infrared nebulae)
2018-2-MLT-003 P4 RSS (Looking at chromospheric emission in stars which host exoplanets)

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Night Log 2020-12-09

SA: Danièl
SO: Fred
Others: Thabelo (for PDET), Encarni (for slotmode)

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Thick clouds and humidity kept us closed for the evening.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2020-12-08

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others: Keith

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An excellent clear, dark and stable night to end my week. Much needed after the network issues! We observed 9 blocks, all of which were high priority.

Science data taken for:
2020-1-MLT-001 P1 RSS (M-sigma relation for a low mass AGNs)
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)
2018-2-LSP-001 P1 RSS (x2) (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2020-2-SCI-004 P2 HRS (Observations of new roAp stars @dlhwp)
2020-2-SCI-017 P2 RSS (Monitoring the spectropolarimetric behavior of blazars)
2019-2-MLT-004 P2 HRS (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)
2018-2-MLT-006 P2 RSS (Study of unclassified extragalactic NuSTAR serendipitous sources)

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Night Log 2020-12-07

SA: Lee
SO: Veronica
Others:

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The network prevented us from observing until around 11pm SAST. We observed some high priority blocks with mostly good seeing, before thin cloud became thick, forcing us to close.

Science data taken for:
2020-2-SCI-017 P1 RSS (Monitoring the spectropolarimetric behavior of blazars)
2020-2-SCI-042 P1 RSS (Finding young stars and their planets)
2018-2-LSP-001 P2 RSS (Observing optical counterparts of transient objects)
2020-1-MLT-002 P2 HRS (HRS study of long-period eclipsing binaries)
2020-2-MLT-007 P3 HRS (HRS observations of a high mass binary system.)

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