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Andrew, Isabella, Jack, Laurent, Stefano, Matthieu and Bilal arrived at the telescope.

After a quick tutorial and a rough start, we manage to check pointing and focus on 2251+158.
While it's bad, it's improving a lot with the night coming, and the weather is very promising.

We continue with a night of calibration measures, with beammaps on Uranus, Neptune, skydips and maps on the secondary calibrators, before we start with science projects.

''[Andrew, Isabella and Jack took the shift Tuesday 10pm to Wednesday 6am.]''

We started the shift with beam maps on Uranus and Neptune, followed by the @otf_loop_8_5 on each, before moving to NGC7027, CRL2688 and MWC349 for the otf loops.

After this, tau conditions appeared to be somewhat stable at tau~0.3, so we began science observations with the SZ LP 199-16, obtaining the 4 repetitions requested in the readme on PSZ2-G111.6. Up to this point, there had been some spikes in the tau, which was steadily trending upwards past 0.35. Next, after remaking the pointing and focus, we changed to project 094-18, and tried to make some maps of XLSSC102. The weather was becoming unstable, and trending about of 0.4, and we cancelled the observing script after 3/6 scans when it became clear that the conditions were no longer suitable for observing.

== October 3, (Wednesday) ==

''[Andrew, Isabella and Jack took the shift Wednesday 10pm to Thursday 6am.]''

As the shift begins, the opacity is ~0.4, with a downward trend and appears to be becoming more stable. We begin with a skydip, followed by beammaps and @otf_loop_8_5 on Neptune, then Uranus.

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Daily Reports

October 2, (Tuesday)

Andrew, Isabella, Jack, Laurent, Stefano, Matthieu and Bilal arrived at the telescope.

After a quick tutorial and a rough start, we manage to check pointing and focus on 2251+158. While it's bad, it's improving a lot with the night coming, and the weather is very promising.

We continue with a night of calibration measures, with beammaps on Uranus, Neptune, skydips and maps on the secondary calibrators, before we start with science projects.

[Andrew, Isabella and Jack took the shift Tuesday 10pm to Wednesday 6am.]

We started the shift with beam maps on Uranus and Neptune, followed by the @otf_loop_8_5 on each, before moving to NGC7027, CRL2688 and MWC349 for the otf loops.

After this, tau conditions appeared to be somewhat stable at tau~0.3, so we began science observations with the SZ LP 199-16, obtaining the 4 repetitions requested in the readme on PSZ2-G111.6. Up to this point, there had been some spikes in the tau, which was steadily trending upwards past 0.35. Next, after remaking the pointing and focus, we changed to project 094-18, and tried to make some maps of XLSSC102. The weather was becoming unstable, and trending about of 0.4, and we cancelled the observing script after 3/6 scans when it became clear that the conditions were no longer suitable for observing.

October 3, (Wednesday)

[Andrew, Isabella and Jack took the shift Wednesday 10pm to Thursday 6am.]

As the shift begins, the opacity is ~0.4, with a downward trend and appears to be becoming more stable. We begin with a skydip, followed by beammaps and @otf_loop_8_5 on Neptune, then Uranus.

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