Gordon Bromage and Hannah Worters at SAAO:
we've had clear nights for 5.5 out of 6 nights so
far, so hope tonight will stay the same...
Horace Horologium (nickname for 0241-53) has been very quiet
with barely a flicker of variability and no obvious flares
so far - I am sure it is waiting to shine in the limelight
tonight and flare for us...
Alan Whiting & students (CTIO, Chile):
It's now about 1h30m UT, and we've begun photometry on the stars.
We have a CCD, exposing for 30s in B, readout time giving us a picture
about every minute.
We have rotated the spectrograph to get both stars, but a few
minutes ago were still having trouble with something mechanical and
weren't observing yet.
In U we seem to be limited to 30s exposure in order to get any
significant number of counts on the fainter stars.
[...later on...] We are also taking spectra with about the same time resolution,
limited by the brightness of the fainter star.
Carlos Alberto and Germano Quast (Brasil):
Although the sky is not completely cloudy now (local time 14H) the
predictions are it will be cloudy at the beginning of the night.
Let us see.
Anyway, I suppose we can observe the stars only until about 01:00 or
01:30 TU. Seeing may be a problem observing this system and the
Zeiss telescope has not a good tracking for high zenith distance.
