SAAO Observing Rota for May 2014 | ||||||||||
Month | Day | Date | Moon% | 1.9-m | 1.0-m | 0.75-m | 0.5-m | IRSF | SALT | Duty Astronomer |
Apr | Wed | 30 | 3 | |||||||
May | Thu | 1 | 7 | Vennes / | Kopacki | Berdnikov | van Heerden | Matsunaga | van Heerden | |
May | Fri | 2 | 13 | Buckley | / Okazaki | |||||
May | Sat | 3 | 21 | |||||||
May | Sun | 4 | 29 | SpCCD | STE4 | Own CCD | MP | |||
May | Mon | 5 | 38 | |||||||
May | Tue | 6 | 47 | |||||||
May | Wed | 7 | 57 | |||||||
May | Thu | 8 | 66 | Welsh | Kopacki | Berdnikov | Ostrowski / | Okazaki / | Handler | |
May | Fri | 9 | 75 | [Worters] | Handler | Moritani | ||||
May | Sat | 10 | 83 | |||||||
May | Sun | 11 | 90 | GIRAFFE | STE4 | Own CCD | MP | |||
May | Mon | 12 | 96 | |||||||
May | Tue | 13 | 99 | |||||||
May | Wed | 14 | 100 | |||||||
May | Thu | 15 | 98 | Handler | Gladkowski | van Wyk | Ostrowski | Moritani / | van Wyk | |
May | Fri | 16 | 94 | Kawachi, | ||||||
May | Sat | 17 | 87 | Yoshida | ||||||
May | Sun | 18 | 78 | |||||||
May | Mon | 19 | 68 | GIRAFFE | STE4 | IRP MKII | MP | |||
May | Tue | 20 | 56 | |||||||
May | Wed | 21 | 45 | |||||||
May | Thu | 22 | 34 | Klindt / | Gladkowski | van Wyk | Yoshida | van Wyk | ||
May | Fri | 23 | 24 | Odendaal | ||||||
May | Sat | 24 | 15 | |||||||
May | Sun | 25 | 8 | SpCCD | STE4 | MP | ||||
May | Mon | 26 | 4 | |||||||
May | Tue | 27 | 1 | |||||||
May | Wed | 28 | 0 | |||||||
May | Thu | 29 | 1 | Klindt / | Throop | Koen | Ratajczak | Koen | ||
May | Fri | 30 | 5 | Odendaal | ||||||
May | Sat | 31 | 9 | [Koen T] | ||||||
Jun | Sun | 1 | 15 | SpCCD | STE4 | MP | ||||
Jun | Mon | 2 | 23 | |||||||
Jun | Tue | 3 | 31 | |||||||
The percentage of Moon illuminated at local
midnight is shown in column 4. Abbreviations: SA - SALT astronomer; SO - SALT operator. Names in square brackets are visitor support astronomers, in bold are actual observers. Dates of Public Holidays are highlighted and marked in Bold. 1 May: Workers' Day |
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