Night report 2022-03-30

Observers: Ken Smith, Thomas Moore

Support: Shubham Srivastav, Michael Fulton

TAT: Tomás Müller, Nada Ihanec, Tom Reynolds, Claudia Gutiérrez.

Afternoon setup: PESSTO bias+calib

Evening setup: None

Morning setup:

Start: 23:44 UT, thin clouds, humidity 21%, wind speed 6.0 m/s, seeing 1.2" (telescope)

Middle: 04:54 UT, clear, humidity 10%, wind speed 5.0 m/s, seeing 1.0" (DIMM)

End: 09:23 UT, thin clouds, humidity 6%, wind speed 2.5 m/s, seeing 1.1" (DIMM)

Very difficult night tonight. After SOFI switchover, problems arose with LOEM access, communication, noise faults in SOFI, difficulty identifying at least one transient. Delays meant some targets were abandoned (including two critical ones). List is below.