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Daily Reports

Observers on-site: Francisco Montenegro, Sofia Savorgnano, Sihan Jiao, Samuel Leclercq, Hamza Ajeddig, Stergios Amarantidis (AoD) and Angel Bongiovanni (stayed only Tuesday).

Operators: Juan Luis (day shift) and Gloria (night shift)

Jan 14th, Tuesday

16:00-22:00: Stergios: Starting with POL mode and DAQ at ~15:00 UTC with 11/5/40 bad pixels. Starting with pointing/focus on NGC7027 but the tracking command does not behave correctly (the telescope doesn't move on target's direction). Scans 92, 93 (pointing command) appear on tapas but there are no imbfits files generated apart from the antenna files. AS and the computer group were contacted. We have lost x hours due to this technical issue. Excellent weather conditions (tau~0.1 and wind speed at ~3m/s).

Many spindle errors, basically impossible to observe (see for example s97 or s102; check tapas for more details). One stacked scan (s108).

Continuing with the calib_1scan of NGC7027, MWC349 and CRL2688.

Around 16:00 UTC we stopped for 15min due to high wind (see tracking errors below).

18:36 UTC: wind still high (gusts of ~10-12m/s), switching to Uranus and hopefully to the project 128-24. Uranus pointing and focus looks stable, wind decreasing so we move after calib1_scan to the project 128-24 at the source L1551-IRSS around 19:20 UTC. After scan 134 there was a spindle error without the telescope observing anything. So far all spindle errors happened with relatively high wind and elevation above 50 deg.

21:30-04:00: Samuel+Hamza:

Jan 15th, Wednesday

04:00-10:00: Francisco:

10:00-16:00: Sofia:

16:00-22:00: Sihan:

22:00-04:00: Samuel+Hamza:

Jan 16th, Thursday

04:00-10:00: Francisco:

10:00-16:00: Sofia:

16:00-22:00: Sihan:

22:00-04:00: Samuel+Hamza:

Jan 17th, Friday

04:00-10:00: Francisco:

10:00-16:00: Sofia:

16:00-22:00: Sihan:

22:00-04:00: Samuel+Hamza:

Jan 18th, Saturday

04:00-10:00: Francisco:

10:00-16:00: Sofia:

16:00-22:00: Sihan:

22:00-04:00: Samuel+Hamza:

Jan 19th, Sunday

04:00-10:00: Francisco:

10:00-16:00: Sofia:

16:00-22:00: Sihan:

22:00-04:00: Samuel+Hamza:

Jan 20th, Monday

04:00-10:00: Francisco:

10:00-16:00: Sofia:

16:00-22:00: Sihan:

22:00-04:00: Samuel+Hamza:

Jan 21st, Tuesday

04:00-10:00: Francisco:

!End of week!