Night report 2026-06-07

Night report 2025/06/07

Observers: Ed Charleton (University of Southampton), Melzie Ghendrih (Lancaster University) and CG Touchard-Paxton (Trinity College Dublin)

Support: Peter Clark, Matt Quilt and Cordelia Dashwood Brown (Southampton)

TAT: Tanja Petrushevska (Nova Gorica), Timo Kravtsov (Turku)

Start:  22:56UT | Humidity: 27.5% | Wind speed: 11.3m/s | Seeing: 1.1 

Middle: 04:49UT | Humidity: 19.0% | Wind speed: 14.0 m/s | Seeing: 1.1

End: 09:18 UT | Humidity: 15.6% | Wind speed: 14.4% | Seeing: 1.2

Afternoon Calibrations:

• Darks, arcs and dome flats done in the afternoon

Notes:

• 22:45 UT: Image aquisition done

• 02:19 UT: switching to slit 1.5 because seeing degraded

• 04:36 UT: pointing restrictions because of wind from NE

• 05:33 UT: seeing significantly down, back to slit 1.0 😎

• 05:45 UT: other observer for approx 1hr (10% of the night on wiki). Pausing until obs completed

• 07:06 UT: back online :-)

• 07:53 UT: seeing degraded, back to 1.5 slit :-(

• 08:44 UT: closing dome due to cloud coverage.

• 09:18 UT: aborted the night X(