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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; Jianghang: 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; Jianghang: 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; Jianghang: Wind.

15:00-21:00; Stavroula: Wind.

21:00-03:00; Stefano:

Oct 22nd, Saturday

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Oct 25th, Tuesday