Daily Reports

Because of the pandemic, no observers can come to the telescope. This pool is entirely in remote mode.

Nov 17th, Tuesday

16h00 - 21h00; Bilal: System check, acquisition started, observing setup. TAPAS is not recording new scans (reported). Opacity is pretty high (0.7 < tau_225Ghz < 1, strong instability). Monitoring strong pointing sources aiming for reasonable point corrections. Science observations started: project 029-20.

21h00 - 24h00; Laurence and Frédéric: We take over from Bilal and continue observing on project 029-20 until the targets reached El.~20 deg.

Nov 18th, Wednesday

00h00 - 01h00; Laurence and Frédéric: Opacity increases up to 0.6-0.7, with large fluctuations. Targets of NIKA2 Pool scheduled projects are not feasible.

01h00 - 09h00; Ángel; Stavroula and Suzanne since early morning: taking over at ~01h and switching to EMIR; observing the four B213* sources (3 mm) of the EMIR backup project 011-20. Observations of the EMIR backup project 078-20 started.

09h00 - 15h00; Mónica, Stavroula, Suzanne, Carsten: observations for EMIR project 078-20 continued. Opacity going down; its mean value dropped up to about 0.45 around noon. Bilal helps with switching over to NIKA2 at 13h00 to start with 029-20.

15h00 - 21h00; Bilal: take over and continuing with NIKA2. Observing for project 029-20 since then.

21h00 - 24h00; Laurence: Observations for project 029-20 continued. Mean opacity between 0.3 and 0.4.

Nov 19th, Thursday

00h00 - 03h00; Laurence: Large instabilities during the second half of the shift.

03h00 - 09h00; Alexandre: Mean opacity between 0.3 and 0.4 with some spikes during the shift. Two repetitions were carried out on TMC1-C and TMC1-CP for project 006-20. One repetition on JINGLE0 for project 061-20 after that.

09h00 - 15h00; Stavroula, Suzanne, Carsten: 1 x JINGLE16/061-20. ~15 scans on ngc2976/160-16. TAPAS and piic/ql frozen for a while. IDL/rta used instead.

15h00 - 21h00; Bilal:

21h00 - 24h00; Frédéric:

Nov 20th, Friday

00h00 - 03h00; Frédéric:

03h00 - 09h00; Longji:

09h00 - 15h00;

15h00 - 21h00;

21h00 - 24h00;

Nov 21st, Saturday

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Nov 22nd, Sunday

00h00 - 03h00;

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Nov 23rd, Monday

00h00 - 03h00;

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Nov 24th, Tuesday

00h00 - 03h00;

03h00 - 10h30;