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SAAO Observing rota for October 2012

DateM %1.9-m 1.0-m 0.75-m0.5-m IRSF SALT Duty Astr
Wed26 71 Worters/
O'Connor/
Crause/
Carignan

Engineering



Liska/
Henych

MP		 Tsumura/
Shirahata		 Vaisanen
(SA)
Ngxanga
(SO)		 Crause
Thu27 78
Fri28 85
Sat29 92
Sun30 98
Mon 1 95
Tue 2 88
Wed 3 82 Parker/
Stupar
[Tekola]

SpCCD		 Worters

STE3

Nhlapo/
Ayane

MP		 Barway Kotze
(SA)
Marang
(SO)		 Worters
Thu 4 76
Fri 5 70
Sat 6 64
Sun 7 58
Mon 8 52
Tue 9 46
Wed10 39 Kilkenny

SpCCD		 Woudt

SHOC		 van Wyk

IRP MkII		 Ayane

MP		 Abe/
Suzuki		 Vaisanen
(SA)
Koen		 Kilkenny
Thu11 33
Fri12 26
Sat13 19
Sun14 12
Mon15 4
Tue16 3
Wed17 10 Loaring
[Kilkenny]

SpCCD		 Burleigh

STE3		 Gorski

IRP MkII		 van Wyk

MP		 Suzuki Romero-
Colmenero
(SA)
Ngxanga
(SO)		 Loaring?
Thu18 18
Fri19 26
Sat20 33
Sun21 41
Mon22 48
Tue23 55
Wed24 62 van Wyk

SpCCD*

Gorski

IRP MkII		 Winkler
[van Wyk]

MP		 Suzuki Pickering
(SA)
Marang
(SO)		 van Wyk
Thu25 68
Fri26 75
Sat27 81
Sun28 88
Mon29 94
Tue30 99
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.

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Last updated: 9 October 2012