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Oct 18th, Tuesday
15:00-21:00; Stergios & Ioannis: Maintenance finished at 16:00. Tried EMIR system check after that time but weather conditions were too bad and we stopped. Tau225 was around 0.6 and quickly raised to > 1. No good pointing could be obtained, even with EMIR 3mm band (pwv > 10mm and up to 30-40 mm).
21:00-03:00; Stefano: Tau225 more than 1 most of the time, high wind speed (up to 30 m/s) and a couple occasions of rain. Telescope stopped throughout the shift.
Today's experiment (Thank you Albrecht!):
Oct 19th, Wednesday
03:00-09:00; Antonio: Tau225 more than 1 most of the time, high wind speed (up to 30 m/s) and a couple occasions of rain. Telescope stopped throughout the shift.
09:00-15:00; Ioannis: Project T14-22 scheduled for this shift but still no observations due to high wind speed.
15:00-21:00; Jianhang: High wind speed and Tau225. No observations.
21:00-03:00; Stefano: The telescope is still parked because of high winds.
Astronomer chasing the last piece of Jamon...
...other astronomers fighting for who gets the only couple of hours of good weather this week...
Oct 20th, Thursday
03:00-09:00; Antonio: High wind speed and Tau225. No observations.
09:00-15:00; Jianhang: High wind speed and Tau225. No observations. We had visitors from the master of telecommunications and did a tour around the telescope.
15:00-21:00; Stavroula: Wind...
21:00-03:00; Stefano: Soffia il vento, urla la bufera...
Oct 21st, Friday
03:00-09:00; Antonio: Wind.
09:00-15:00; Jianhang: Wind.
15:00-21:00; Stavroula: Wind.
21:00-03:00; Stefano, Stavroula, Antonio, Jianhang, Ioannis: Wind.
Oct 22nd, Saturday
03:00-09:00; Antonio: Wind.
09:00-15:00; Jianhang: Wind.
15:00-21:00; Stavroula: Wind.
21:00-03:00; Stefano, Stavroula, Antonio, Jianhang, Ioannis, Pedro: Wind.
The tradition of the Saturday midnight pasta is back!
Oct 23rd, Sunday
03:00-09:00; Antonio: Wind.
09:00-15:00; Jianhang: Wind.
15:00-21:00; Stavroula: Wind.
21:00-03:00; Stefano: Wind
Never give up!
Oct 24th, Monday
03:00-09:00; Antonio: Wind.
09:00-15:00; Jianhang: Nice and Sunny. Wind.
15:00-21:00; Stavroula: A brief wind speed decrease allowed a short observing window of about 2hrs (18 - 20 local time). pwv was between 5 and 9 (tau225 0.4 - 0.6), so we only manages a couple of repetitions for the EMIR 3mm backup project 019-22. Then wind increased again and we stopped.
21:00-03:00; Stefano: NO comment.
Summary of the week:
Oct 25th, Tuesday
03:00-09:00; Antonio: $%#&@%#!