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Because of the pandemic, no observers can come to the telescope. This pool is entirely in remote. This week: Nicolas Ponthieu, Alexandre Beelen, Juan Macias, Laurence Perotto, Florian Kéruzoré, Stavroula Katsioli, Hélène Roussel, Florian Ruppin
A new sweep was performed.
Oct 20th, Tuesday
High winds with gusts up to 40m/s
Oct 21th, Wednesday
With hail!
No observation could be performed so far.
Oct 22th, Thursday
It's even raining in Granada. No observations.
Oct 23th, Friday
Morning shift. We can start the observations, the opacity is excellent and the weather is much better, but we can't start science because we lack a beammap to reduce data. NP, AB and BL perform observation of Venus with NP reducing the beammaps successfully. Grenoble is warned about the presence of the beammaps, but PIIC won't be ready before Monday.
We let the weather slowly stabilize until we can finally start observations after the sunset. Opacity throughout the evening: ~0.2
LPSZ starts science for this pool (ACT-CL-J0223)! ...
Oct 23th, Friday
...followed by IMEGIN over the night shift (NGC628, NGC925) and 037-20.
Morning shift observes project 074-20 and 077-20.
Source of 077-20 is 5 degrees from the sun and while it did not hurt the science observations for a while, it ended up dramatically changing the beam parameters for the worse. So we let the antenna relax in front of M16 (029-20)