Night Report 2016-09-08

Observing: David Bersier, Lawrence Short

Support Team: E. Kankare

TAT: Annalisa De Cia, Kate Maguire

Start of night: UT 23:51 = LST 18:22

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Moon

Age: 7.62 days

Illumination: 46%

Set: ~04:50

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Weather conditions

Start of night:  A few thin clouds distributed across entire sky (fewer than previous night), seeing ~1.0"

Middle of night: still a few thin clouds on horizon, seeing ~0.8"

End of night: Clear, seeing ~1.0"

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Calibrations

Daytime: EFOSC bias (18:25), spec arcs and flats (18:40)

Evening: BR Flats (22:53) -- use with extreme caution due to clouds

Morning: rz Flats (10:13)

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All observations with EFOSC

23:47 SN2016aiy (follow-up) phot gri -- Early start due to risk of reaching pointing limit -- Airmass 2.5

00:29 Standard LTT7379

00:51 ASASSN-16kd (classificaion)

01:11 ASASSN-15oz (follow-up) phot BVRIz

02:24 AT2016fmb (classification) -- Ia-norm -- a few days before max -- z~0.07

02:40 SN2016els (follow-up) phot griz

03:36 Focus run

03:50 Standard Feige110

04:22 LSQ15adm (follow-up) phot gri

06:21 PS15cwo (follow-up) phot gri

08:12 AT2016fsn classification attempted but nothing there

08:33 OGLE16cza (classification) -- CV?

08:52 AT2016fts (classification) -- Ia-norm -- a few days before max -- z~0.03

09:04 Standard gd71

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End of night: UT 09:28 = LST 04:01