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Daily Reports

Jean-François Lestrade, Stavroula Katsiolis, Antonio Ferragamo, Angel Bongiovanni and Bilal Ladjelate arrive at the telescope for the 1st NIKA2 week of the winter semester.

Dec 10th, Tuesday

In good condition we start after the maintenance and system check with project 163-19, followed by project 143-19 after some calibration scans.

Dec 11th, Wednesday

0:00UT Jean-François and Antonio perform a pointing session, followed by the project 200-19

5:00UT Stavroula and Angel continue project 200-19 in mediocre conditions until the start of the 133-19 EMIR project at 9:30UT

17:00UT We get the telescope back, and the opacity drops to 0.1. We start with calibration and the project 160-16, followed by 199-16, 126-19 and back to 199-16.

Dec 12th, Thursday

5:00UT Stavroula and Angel arrive for the morning shift and continue observations of 199-16, 200-19 and 163-19 under good weather conditions

10:00UT We leave the telescope to the EMIR project 133-19. 2mm of water vapor in the sky.