Night Log 2023-10-30

SA: Danièl
SO: Veronica
Others: Wimpie

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Another night of observations was done. The RSS detector temperature is within normal limits again. The guide probes decided to give us issues tonight.

Science data taken for:
2018-2-MLT-005 P1 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2023-1-SCI-013 P1 HRS (Spectrosocpic classification of the microlensing events candidates alerted by Gaia mission)
2023-1-COM-001 P1 HRS (x4) (HS pipeline observations @dlhwp)
2023-1-SCI-019 P3 HRS (x4) (Cosmic dance of massive triples)
2023-1-SCI-006 P4 HRS (Oscillating wildly - characterising the nature of unusually pulsating stars)
2023-2-SCI-014 P4 RSS (x2) (Building a sample of blazar candidates)
2023-1-MLT-005 P4 HRS (Study of proporties of chemically peculiar Am stars)

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Night Log 2023-10-29

SA: Danièl
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Bad weather kept us closed for the night.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2023-10-28

SA: undefined
SO: Veronica
Others:

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We had time to do 3 blocks before the humidity forced us closed for the rest of the night.

Science data taken for:
2023-1-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (HS pipeline observations @dlhwp)
2023-1-MLT-005 P4 HRS (Study of proporties of chemically peculiar Am stars)

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Night Log 2023-10-27

SA: Danièl
SO: Veronica
Others:

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Lost the whole night to thick clouds and high humidity.

No science data taken.

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Night Log 2023-10-26

SA: Danièl
SO: Veronica
Others: Frog

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Another full night of observing, with few technical issues.
We had a surprise frog visitor in the control room tonight.

Science data taken for:
2023-1-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (HS pipeline observations @dlhwp)
2018-2-MLT-005 P2 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2023-1-SCI-008 P2 HRS (Observations of Ap stars @dlhwp)
2021-2-MLT-006 P3 HRS (Accurate parameters of stars in Tight Triple Systems)
2021-2-MLT-005 P3 HRS (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2023-1-SCI-019 P3 HRS (x6) (Cosmic dance of massive triples)
2023-1-MLT-005 P4 HRS (x3) (Study of proporties of chemically peculiar Am stars)
2023-1-SCI-006 P4 HRS (Oscillating wildly - characterising the nature of unusually pulsating stars)

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Night Log 2023-10-25

SA: Danièl
SO: Veronica
Others:

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We had a full night of observing and mostly a trouble-free evening.

Science data taken for:
2023-1-COM-001 P1 HRS (x2) (HS pipeline observations @dlhwp)
2021-2-MLT-005 P2 HRS (x2) (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)
2023-1-SCI-008 P3 HRS (Observations of Ap stars @dlhwp)
2021-2-MLT-006 P4 HRS (x2) (Accurate parameters of stars in Tight Triple Systems)
2023-1-SCI-019 P4 HRS (x3) (Cosmic dance of massive triples)
2023-1-SCI-005 P4 HRS (x2) (Stellar Characterisation of Ariel mission targets: derivation of N and O abundances)
2023-1-SCI-006 P4 HRS (Oscillating wildly - characterising the nature of unusually pulsating stars)

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Night Log 2023-10-24

SA: Moses
SO: Veronica
Others: Danièl, Wimpie, Pran, Moses, Shamin

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The weather conditions were decent tonight and we managed to observe many blocks of mixed priority.

Science data taken for:
2023-1-SCI-025 P1 RSS (x2) (Building a spectroscopic survey of 2 galaxy clusters, boosting MeerKAT legacy value)
2023-1-MLT-003 P1 HRS (Observations of a pos-AGB star which has completely changed its apparence over the last decades. )
2018-2-MLT-005 P2 RSS (Probing the winds from massive binary star supernova progenitors)
2023-1-SCI-012 P3 RSS (Probing the quasar outflows.)
2023-1-SCI-023 P3 HRS (Spectra of RR Lyrae stars which will be used to determine the composition of the stars. )
2020-1-MLT-008 P3 RSS (Obtaining redshifts for G4Jy sources - the brightest radio galaxies in the southern sky)
2023-1-SCI-017 P3 RSS (x2) (Revealing the nature of radio galaxies)
2023-1-MLT-007 P3 RSS (SALT+Gaia survey of helium-rich hot subdwarfs)
2021-2-MLT-005 P3 HRS (x2) (Monitoring the activity of Be/X-ray binaries in the southern hemisphere)

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