Observing notes - September 2004 2SLAQ run

Observers: CANNON, ROSEBOOM, CROOM, COLLESS, DE PROPRIS, PIMBBLET

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Nightly updates

7/09-8/09 diary
No observations made due to poor weather
8/04-9/04 diary
No observations made due to poor weather
9/04-10/04 log diary
Poor seeing, some time lost to hardware failure. 7:36 out of 9:36 hours used.
10/04-11/04 log diary
Some time lost to system failure, High cloud resulted in poor S/N for fields observed. 6:31 out of possible 9:34 hours used.
11/04-12/04 log diary
Night lost to weather, system failure and extremely poor seeing
12/04-13/04 log diary
Most of night lost to system failure. Poor spectrograph focus and poor seeing resulted in low S/N for observed frames.
13/04-14/04 log diary
Poor conditions continued with some cloud and fog around. 2 hours were lost to hardware failure. 7:28 out of possible 9:28 hours used.
14/04-15/04 log diary
Night lost to system failure.
15/04-16/04 diary
Night lost to system failure.
16/04-17/04 log diary
Most of night lost to system failure
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Observing summary

Date   Field  Exposure        Seeing   Comments

040909 s29    4x1800s	      2"   
040909 s48    4x1800s         2"    
040409 s67    5x1800s	      2.5"    
   
040910 s29    5x1800s         1.3"     Problems with Cloud 
040910 s67    7x1800s	      1.3"        

040911 LTT377 standard 6x120s
040911 L870-2 Oke standard 6x240s

040912 s08    4x1800s	      1.6"
040912 s29    1x1800s	      1.6"
040912 s67    2x1500s	      1.6"

040913 s08    4x1800s	      1.5"
040913 s29    3x1800s+1x1300s 1.5"
040913 s48    4x1800s         2.5"    Problems with fog

040914 s08    1x1800s	      1.5"	      

040916 s08    4x1800s	      1.8"
040916 s29    3x1800s	      1.4"


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Run summary

The run was severly hampered by poor weather/seeing and problems with the 2dF instrument. Although all fields were observed for the specified amount of time, the poor weather and instrument condition resulted in very low S/N in the observed frames.

Complete Fields
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 Field | Time Observed
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Incomplete Fields
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 Field |  Time Observed
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s08    | 13x1800s      
s29    | 16x1800+1x1300s
s48    | 8x1800s
s67    | 12x1800+2x1500s