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SAAO Observing rota for August 2008

DateM %1.9-m 1.0-m 0.75-m0.5-m IRSF SALT Duty Astr
Wed 6 31 Hashimoto

SpCCD
Zub/
Cassan

PLANET

STE3
Pretorius

UCT CCD


Fukui Yas/
Charl

Pretorius
Thu 7 38
Fri 8 44
Sat9 50
Sun10 56
Mon11 62
Tue12 68
Wed13 74 ENG DEC
DRIVE


SpCCD
Sefako

SAAO CCD
van Wyk

IRP MkII


Matsunaga Engineering van Wyk
Thu14 80
Fri15 87
Sat16 93
Sun17 99
Mon18 93
Tue19 86
Wed20 79 Feast

SpCCD
Menzies

STE3
Su/
Rieke

[Whitelock]

IRP MkII


Matsunaga Alexei/
Fred
Menzies
Thu21 72
Fri22 65
Sat23 57
Sun24 50
Mon25 43
Tue26 35
Wed27 28 Andernach

SpCCD
Kuhn

STE3
Middleton

Own Camera
van Wyk

MP
Matsunaga Amanda/
Lucian
van Wyk
Thu28 21
Fri29 13
Sat30 6
Sun31 0
Mon 1 7
Tue 2 14
The percentage of moon illuminated at local midnight is given in the third column.
Abbreviations: B, G and D: Bright, grey and dark weeks. NA: Night assistant.
Names in square brackets are visitor support astronomers, in bold are actual observers.
Dates of Public Holidays marked in bold.9 Aug: National Womens' Day

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Last updated: 26 August 2008