Night Log 2025-09-06

SA: Danièl
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Thick clouds closed us for the first part of the night, but cleared after midnight. We managed to complete several blocks, mostly low priorities.

Science data taken for:
2025-1-SCI-031 P2 HRS (High resolution spectra to obtain abundances of RR Lyrae stars.)
2025-1-SCI-010 P3 HRS (Doppler imaging of the unexplored Southern Ap star)
2025-1-SCI-003 P3 HRS (x2) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)
2024-1-MLT-010 P3 HRS (Stellar Characterisation of Ariel mission targets: derivation of N and O abundances)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (x2) (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)
2025-1-MLT-004 P4 RSS (Near-UV and visible spectroscopy of the primitive asteroids)
2025-1-SCI-012 P4 RSS (Artificial intelligence identification of extragalactic sources)

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Night Log 2025-09-05

SA: Danièl
SO: Veronica
Others:

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We lost the whole night to high humidity and had some issues with the mirror alignment at the start of the night, we only managed to complete 1 block.

Science data taken for:
2024-2-SCI-001 P3 HRS (Study of the properties of five extreme mass-ratio binaries)

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Night Log 2025-09-04

SA: Antoine
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Thick clouds forced us to close early, we managed to observe only one block.

Science data taken for:
2025-1-DDT-005 P0 HRS (High-res spectra of the first ever high-mass CV)

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Night Log 2025-09-03

SA: Antoine
SO: Veronica
Others:

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We lost some time at the beginning of the night due to thick clouds. The first part of the night the seeing was unstable, but in the second part we had good seeing. Nevertheless, we managed to observe a substantial number of blocks with mixed priorities.

Science data taken for:
2025-1-SCI-001 P0 RSS (SALT Spectra of Transients)
2024-2-COM-002 P1 RSS (This is a commissioning proposal)
2023-1-SCI-040 P1 HRS (Searching for variable metal lines in polluted white dwarfs)
2023-2-MLT-003 P2 RSS (x2) (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2024-2-LSP-002 P2 RSS (x2) (Pan-African AGN survey using SALT/IFS: tracing the properties of AGN and their host galaxies)
2023-2-MLT-005 P3 HRS (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)
2025-1-SCI-008 P3 RSS (Monitoring a special sample of quasars showing large continuum variations in their spectra.)
2025-1-SCI-031 P3 HRS (High resolution spectra to obtain abundances of RR Lyrae stars.)
2025-1-SCI-003 P3 HRS (x4) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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Night Log 2025-09-02

SA: Antoine
SO: Austun
Others: Thabelo and Sam

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A full night of observing. However, the seeing was unstable during the observations.We had some Technical problems but the rest of the night went well with many blocks observed.

Science data taken for:
2025-1-DDT-005 P0 HRS (High-res spectra of the first ever high-mass CV)
2024-2-COM-002 P1 RSS (This is a commissioning proposal)
2025-1-MLT-001 P2 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far.)
2024-2-LSP-002 P2 RSS (Pan-African AGN survey using SALT/IFS: tracing the properties of AGN and their host galaxies)
2023-2-MLT-003 P2 RSS (x2) (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2025-1-SCI-017 P2 RSS (Time-series spectra of cataclysmic variables.)
2025-1-SCI-020 P2 RSS (Study the role of Studying Star Formation in HI-Detected Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster)
2025-1-MLT-002 P2 RSS (Tracking Accretion Flows via BLR Emission in Changing-Look Active Galactic Nuclei)
2024-2-MLT-001 P2 HRS (x2) (Spectroscopy of compact heirarchial triples)
2025-1-SCI-003 P3 HRS (x3) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)
2025-1-SCI-009 P3 RSS (We are probing the large scale outflows in bright quasars through absorption spectroscopy.)
2025-1-SCI-002 P3 HRS (Observations of ssrAp stars)
2025-1-SCI-010 P3 HRS (Doppler imaging of the unexplored Southern Ap star)

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Night Log 2025-09-01

SA: Antoine
SO: Austun
Others: Thabelo (Online)

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A full night of observing. We had some Technical problems but the rest of the night went well with many blocks observed.

Science data taken for:
2023-2-MLT-002 P0 RSS (Constraining galaxy cluster merger geometries and timescales)
2025-1-SCI-017 P1 RSS (Time-series spectra of cataclysmic variables.)
2023-2-MLT-003 P2 RSS (x2) (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2024-2-LSP-002 P2 RSS (Pan-African AGN survey using SALT/IFS: tracing the properties of AGN and their host galaxies)
2025-1-SCI-003 P3 HRS (x9) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)
2025-1-SCI-009 P3 RSS (We are probing the large scale outflows in bright quasars through absorption spectroscopy.)

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Night Log 2025-08-31

SA: Antoine
SO: Austun
Others: Thabelo (online)

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High humidity forced us to close, but we were able to observe a good number of blocks.

Science data taken for:
2025-1-SCI-017 P1 RSS (x2) (Time-series spectra of cataclysmic variables.)
2024-2-LSP-001 P1 HRS (Followup of Transients)
2024-2-COM-002 P1 RSS (This is a commissioning proposal)
2025-1-MLT-002 P2 RSS (Tracking Accretion Flows via BLR Emission in Changing-Look Active Galactic Nuclei)
2024-2-LSP-002 P2 RSS (x2) (Pan-African AGN survey using SALT/IFS: tracing the properties of AGN and their host galaxies)
2023-2-MLT-003 P2 RSS (Investigating the polarised nature of TeV-emitting blazars)
2023-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (Spectra of ultrashort period main sequence binary stars)
2025-1-SCI-009 P3 RSS (We are probing the large scale outflows in bright quasars through absorption spectroscopy.)
2025-1-SCI-003 P4 HRS (x4) (Defining a new chemically peculiar star catalogue)

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