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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hrs Observed
Hrs Lost
Reason
Observing Program
04/26/2026
Robert Berrington
Ball State university
none
arc
0
10
Humidity
High humidity prevented opening for the evening.
04/24/2026
Steve Gillam
ERAU
None
Andor camera
5
5
Humidity
Microvariables. The run ended about an hour before sunrise at the 3.5 hours west limit.
04/22/2026
Zach Savery
University of Delaware
Kaylee, Mille, Ben, Evelyn, and Caitlyn
CCD
5
5
Software/Control PC Issues
04/21/2026
Zach Savery
University of Delaware
Kaylee and Caitlyn
CCD
10
0
Software/Control PC Issues
Observed WD 1612 throughout the full night. Took U, B, V, and R band imaging in rotation through the night with a ~5 minute cycle in total. Did have to restart the ACE cabinet on both computers near the beginning of the night, as the imaging sequence tool couldn't be found in either ACE GUI.
04/20/2026
Zach Savery
University of Delaware
Kaylee, Millie, Evelyn, Ben
CCD
8
2
Clouds
Observing WD 1612 again using 45 second exposure photometry in the V band. Lost last 2 hours of observing due to high, thick clouds rolling in.
04/19/2026
Zach. Savery
University of Delaware
Kaylee and Millie
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Observed the white dwarf WD 1612+554, it should be pulsating but two previous attempts did not see any. Did not notice anything weird while connected through Radmin, though it did randomly drop the connection twice during the night. While observing, as the dome moved through 0 degrees the GUI started saying the telescope was vignetting. Moving off of the target and back fixed this.
04/17/2026
Roi Alonso
IAC
none
ccd
0
10
Clouds
Wind, dust, and clouds.
04/16/2026
William Keel
University of Alabama
1 cat
Andor CCD
5.5
4
Clouds
AGN-ionized clouds. Focus 98500, guider focus -100. Guider worked fine with manual entry of the ROI boundaries.
04/15/2026
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
04/13/2026
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
Observational Astronomy students
Andor CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Student projects for first half, then PN central star monitoring.
04/12/2026
Xianming Han
Butler University
none
ccd
10
0
No problems to report
eclipsing binary
04/11/2026
Xianming Han
Butler University
Sam Caster
ccd
10
0
No problems to report
eclipsing binary
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