Night Log 2021-10-30

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others:

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Spent the first half of the night completely the final post-shutdown engineering tests. The second half of the night was spent doing some science with HRS.

Science data taken for:
2019-1-MLT-008 P2 HRS (HRS monitoring of yellow symbiotic systems)
2021-1-SCI-022 P2 HRS (Study of the properties of an extreme-amplitude heartbeat star.)
2021-1-SCI-033 P2 HRS (Tracing the trajectory of a bright binary star system)
2021-1-SCI-014 P2 HRS (x2) (Monitoring of Luminous Blue Variables)
2019-2-MLT-004 P2 HRS (x2) (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)

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Night Log 2021-10-29

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others:

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High humidity kept us closed all night, but it gave me a good chance to get most of the post-shutdown engineering tests done.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2021-10-28

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others: Deneys, Etienne

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Clouds, rain and high humidity kept us closed all night.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2021-10-27

SA: Rudi
SO: Thea
Others: Lee & Janus (RSS ground tests)

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Cloudy weather kept us closed all night.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2021-10-26

SA: Moses
SO: Veronica
Others:

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We managed to observe some low to medium priority blocks until the humidity caused us to close in the second half of the night.

Science data taken for:
2019-1-MLT-008 P1 HRS (x2) (HRS monitoring of yellow symbiotic systems)
2021-1-SCI-013 P2 HRS (x3) (Constraining the nature of companions in massive single-lined spectroscopic binaries)
2021-1-SCI-014 P3 HRS (Monitoring of Luminous Blue Variables)
2021-1-SCI-009 P4 HRS (Spectroscopically observing a pulsating star to form a RV curve @Simon_Ebo)

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Night Log 2021-10-25

SA: Moses
SO: Veronica
Others: Alrin

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We managed to observe a few high to low priority targets until the weather turned against us later in the night.

Science data taken for:
2018-1-MLT-005 P1 HRS (x2) (HRS observations of symbiotic stars)
2019-2-MLT-004 P2 HRS (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)
2021-1-SCI-011 P3 HRS (High-Velocity Interstellar Absorptions)
2021-1-SCI-008 P4 HRS (Study of RV Tauri stars without a circumbinary disc.)

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Night Log 2021-10-24

SA: Moses
SO: Veronica
Others: Alrin, Keith+? (to help with CCAS)

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The night had clear skies and so we managed to observe a few medium priority blocks after a some initial technical problems.

Science data taken for:
2019-2-MLT-004 P2 HRS (x2) (Monitoring the line emission in Southern Galactic Be/X-ray binaries)
2021-1-SCI-022 P2 HRS (Study of the properties of an extreme-amplitude heartbeat star.)
2021-1-SCI-033 P2 HRS (Tracing the trajectory of a bright binary star system)
2021-1-SCI-014 P2 HRS (Monitoring of Luminous Blue Variables)
2020-2-MLT-009 P2 HRS (Spectroscopic monitoring of candidate white dwarf + Be star binaries.)

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