Night Report 2016-09-19

Observing: Lawrence Short

Support Team: Simon Prentice and Phil James

TAT: Joe Anderson, Regis Cartier

Start of night: UT 23:56 = LST 19:10

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Moon

Age: 18.62 days

Illumination: 84%

Rises: ~02:00

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Weather conditions

Start of night:  A few thin clouds towards South-West, seeing ~1.3"

Middle of night: Clear

End of night:

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Calibrations

Daytime: EFOSC bias, spec arcs and flats

Evening: BR Flats (23:02) -- use with caution due to clouds

Morning:

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All observations with EFOSC

23:27 SN2016aiy (follow-up) phot V -- Early start due to risk of reaching pointing limit

23:42 Pointing restriction in place, can only observe north

23:46 SN2016blz (follow-up) g13

00:35 Image analysis

01:04 SN2016gfr (follow-up) g13

01:44 AT2016gis (classification)

02:21 AT2016gfu (classification)

02:37 SN2016frp (follow-up) g11

03:13 SN2016frp (follow-up) g16

03:50 Pointing restriction lifted

03:53 AT2016gfk (classification)

04:11 OGLE16cwa (classification)

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04:38 Hand over to other observer