Night Log 2022-03-30

SA: Rosalind
SO: Xola
Others: Timmy, David B and students

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Entire night lost to cloudy weather.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2022-03-29

SA: Lee
SO: Thea
Others: Xola, Jaco

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Night lost to weather.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2022-03-28

SA: Lee
SO: Thea
Others: Johan for chiller alarm

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We lost about 4 hours of the night to thick and variable cloud, but observed a total of 8 blocks in between the cloud cover.

Science data taken for:
2020-1-MLT-002 P1 HRS (HRS study of long-period eclipsing binaries)
2021-2-SCI-026 P1 RSS (Revealing Physical Properties of Emission-Line Galaxies at z<0.4 )
2021-2-SCI-020 P1 RSS (Studying gas in interacting galaxies)
2021-2-MLT-001 P1 RSS (Unravelling the gas and stellar kinematics of nearby starbursts and LIRGs)
2021-2-MLT-003 P2 RSS (Tracking Accretion Flows via BLR Emission in Changing-Look Active Galactic Nuclei)
2021-1-MLT-005 P2 RSS (Tracing the history of extreme helium stars)
2021-1-SCI-007 P2 HRS (x2) (Probing the binarity of a sample of galactic proto-planetary nebulae)

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Night Log 2022-03-27

SA: Lee
SO: Thea
Others:

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An excellent night of observing filled with high priority science! The weather and seeing were generally very good. We completed 19 blocks including 2 P0's.

Science data taken for:
2021-2-LSP-001 P0 RSS (x2) (Followup of Transients)
2019-1-MLT-008 P1 HRS (x2) (HRS monitoring of yellow symbiotic systems)
2020-1-MLT-005 P1 RSS (Study of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas in moderately inclined galaxies.)
2021-2-MLT-005 P1 HRS (x3) (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2021-2-SCI-026 P1 RSS (Revealing Physical Properties of Emission-Line Galaxies at z<0.4 )
2018-2-MLT-005 P1 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2021-2-MLT-003 P2 RSS (Tracking Accretion Flows via BLR Emission in Changing-Look Active Galactic Nuclei)
2021-1-SCI-008 P2 HRS (x3) (Study of RV Tauri stars without a circumbinary disc.)
2021-2-SCI-007 P2 HRS (monitoring new roAp stars for binary companions @dlhwp)
2020-1-MLT-008 P2 RSS (x2) (Obtaining redshifts for G4Jy sources - the brightest radio galaxies in the southern sky)
2021-1-MLT-005 P3 RSS (x2) (Tracing the history of extreme helium stars)

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Night Log 2022-03-26

SA: Lee
SO: Thea
Others: Etienne for calsys issues

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We had both poor and then above average seeing during the first part of the night, during which we completed 7 blocks of mixed priority. We were closed due to high humidity just before midnight.

Science data taken for:
2021-1-MLT-002 P1 RSS (A study of the kinematics, ISM and stellar properties of MHONGOOSE galaxies.)
2021-2-MLT-001 P1 RSS (Unravelling the gas and stellar kinematics of nearby starbursts and LIRGs)
2021-2-SCI-003 P3 HRS (Spectroscopically observing a pulsating star to form a RV curve @Simon_Ebo)
2021-2-LSP-001 P3 RSS (Followup of Transients)
2021-1-SCI-007 P3 HRS (x2) (Probing the binarity of a sample of galactic proto-planetary nebulae)
2021-1-MLT-007 P3 RSS (Observations of supernovae, near and far. @_sublunar_)

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Night Log 2022-03-25

SA: Lee
SO: Thea
Others:

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We completed 6 blocks of mid-to-low priority in the first few hours of the night, before high humidity closed us. The seeing was variable and often poor whilst we were on sky.

Science data taken for:
2021-1-SCI-007 P2 HRS (x2) (Probing the binarity of a sample of galactic proto-planetary nebulae)
2021-2-MLT-005 P2 HRS (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2021-1-SCI-008 P3 HRS (x2) (Study of RV Tauri stars without a circumbinary disc.)
2020-1-MLT-002 P4 HRS (HRS study of long-period eclipsing binaries)

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Night Log 2022-03-24

SA: Lee
SO: Thea
Others:

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We managed just two blocks at the start of the night, before closing to high humidity.

Science data taken for:
2021-1-SCI-007 P2 HRS (Probing the binarity of a sample of galactic proto-planetary nebulae)
2021-2-MLT-005 P2 HRS (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)

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