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Daily Reports

Observers on-site: Tuan-Anh Duong, Quang Nguyen Luong, Federico de Luca, Antoine Zakardjian, Ste B., and Stergios Amarantidis (AoD).

Operators: Enrique (day) and Pedro (night)

Wish from Nicola Ponthieu in Grenoble: if we take any other polarimetry beammaps, please switch on the external calibrator too.

Nov 26th, Tuesday

15:30-21:00 (Stergios): The weather is still not good for NIKA so we start with EMIR observations. Starting with project 028-24 but we stopped at 16:08 UTC due to high instabilities and possible rain to come. The science source L694 seem to have no bright pointing sources around a ~40 deg radius, however checking at the SMA calibrator catalogue we get the source 1924+156 that is strong enough to be detected and its at ~5deg distance from our target. High wind and opacity continued until the end of the shift. [No observations]

21:00-03:00 (Stefano): I take over; the weather is still bad and windy (although within the 18 m/s limit). While waiting, enjoy a Summary of the past weeks. Evolution of this shift:
- At 22:30 UT we give it a try with EMIR, because tau225~0.7, but with no success. We stop again after 20 minutes.
- we try again at 23:50 UT (tau225~0.55), with the same result as earlier. Still very variable and windy (~14 m/s max).
- again at 1 a.m. UT. Finally success!!! The sky has stabilized and tau is good ~ 0.5-0.35 (except taumeter spikes). I start observing 017-24, ... repetitions on B5_HSEdge (their only target).

Nov 27th, Wednesday

03:00-9:00 (Tuan-Anh & Quang):

09:00-15:00 (Federico):

15:00-21:00 (Antoine):

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