Night report 2015-12-31
Observing: Robert Firth, Chris Frohmaier, Georgios Dimitriadis
Support Team: Southampton
TAT: Joe Anderson, Kate Maguire
BAT: Small flying mammal
FAT: Too many La Silla Ice Creams
At NOB to meet TO at 16:00
Met TO at 17:00 - EFOSC2 setup request wan't received - they have had some system downtime. Hopefully get sorted to start with some high priority classifications.
All following times in UT.
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Weather conditions
Start of night: Band of low clouds moving in from the South West
Middle of the night: Some clouds above us
End of night: Clear sky
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Calibrations
Evening:
(Due to time lost due to issue mentioned above - unable to do full PESSTO_calib - do dome flats in morning. EDIT: Did all of PESSTO calib in the end, had enough time)
- EFOSC2_SpecArc, EFOSC2_FlatSpec
Morning:
-Â EFOSC2_SpecArc, EFOSC2_FlatSpec, EFOSC2_bias
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Science
--EFOSC2--
Image analysis
- 00:30 UT
Classification: ASASSN-15us
- 00:41 UT, seeing ~1.1"
- Normal Type Ia, few days past peak.
Classification: ASASSN-15ut
- 00:52 UT, seeing ~1.1"
- Match to 91T-like Ia, 10 days post peak.
Classification: ASASSN-15uo
-01:03 UT, seeing ~1.1"
- Possibly AGN? More likely IIn.
Standard Star: Gd71
- 1:07 UT
Classification: ASASSN-15uu
- 1:30 UT, seeing ~0.8"
- Normal Type Ia +2 days
Follow-up: PS15cww
- 2:05 UT, seeing ~1.0"
- Gr11, 2x1800s
Follow-up: ASASSN-15og
- 2:45 UT, seeing ~0.9"
- Gr11, 3x2700s
Image analysis
- 5:05 UT
- DIMM seeing 0.65"
Standard Star: Gd71
- 5:21 UT
Follow-up: OGLE15xl
- 5:40 UT, seeing ~0.7"
- Gr13, 3x2700s
Standard Star: LTT3864
- 7:55 UT
Follow-up: MASTERJ141023.42-431843.7
- 8:10 UT, seeing ~0.6"
- Gr13, 1x900s
Classification: ASASSN-15uv
- 8:35 UT, seeing ~0.5"
- Normal Type Ia -6 days
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Rob, Chris and Georgios wish you a Happy New Year!