Observation run Aug 16th, 2010

Remote Control from Cerro Calan, UChile.
Weather conditions: some cirrus on east
06:00 UT wind 80.0 km/h telescope closed
06:46 UT wind 76.5 km/h telescope closed

07:12 UT wind 77.0 km/h telescope closed
08:17 UT wind 53.0 km/h telescope open
Observations with clouds

Observation run July 22th, 2010

Remote ccontrol from Santiago, telescope closed, Cloudy.

Observation run June 9th, 2010

103P/Hartley 2

Weather conditions: partly cloud, cirrus
Wind speed: 50-100 km/h (NW)
Humidity: 29%

Observation run May 21th, 2010

Acquisition image Comet 10P/Tempel 2

Acquisition image Comet 103P/Hartley 2

Weather: Partial cloudy
Humidity:50%
Spectroscopic mode
Instrument: Goodman
Observers: Luis Barrera and Guillermo Retamales
Flat-Quartz, Bias, Arc-Lamp HeAr, Camera Focus, SA107,SA112 and Comets 103P/Hartley 2, and 10P/Tenpel 2 (some frames, click here)

Observation run April 8th 2010

Comet 103P/Hartley 2 (R Filter)

Comet 103P/Hartley 2 (sum 6 fames R Filter)

Comet 10P/Tempel 2 (R Filter)

Comet 67P/C-G (R Filter)

Weather: clear
Seeing range: 1.8 - 0.8
Instrument: SOI (filter R Bessell)

Comets:
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
10P/Tempel 2
103P/Hartley 2

Phot. standard stars:
PG 0918
PG 1323
PG 1525
PG 1657
PG 1528

Observation run March 11th, 2010 using SOI

a) Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Filter R Bessell)
discovered by Klim Churyumov and Svetlana Gerasimenko on September 20th 1969, in a photograph exposed for the periodic comet 32P/Comas Solá (at the Alma-Ata Institute).
b) Standard Stars (Filters R and V Bessell)
PG1633
PG1047
PG1528
PG1525
c) Comet 103P/Hartley 2 (Filter R Bessell)
discovered by Malcolm Hartley on March 15th 1986, at the Schmidt Telescope Unit in Siding Spring, Australia.
Comet 103P/Hartley 2, R Filter single frame (up), R Filter sum of 4 frames (down)

Control Room at SOAR

Priscilla Nowajewski, Luis Barrera, night assistant Sergio Pizarro and the assistant scientist Sean Points (from La Serena)

SOAR Optical Imager