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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hrs Observed
Hrs Lost
Reason
Observing Program
07/13/2025
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
8
0
No problems to report
No problems at all except that the telescope stopped tracking once it reached an hour angle of about +2 (as expected). M31, M33, C/2025 N1.
07/12/2025
Kaylee Grace
UD/MCAO
N/A
CCD
7
0
Software/Control PC Issues
Had an issue at one point that an RA reset fixed, then had to do a full reset when the scope hit the +2 hour limit. No other issues to report! It was a beautiful night and the scope worked really well.
07/09/2025
Robert Berrington
Ball State University
none
arc
7
0
Equipment Failure
The control software was stable at the beginning of the evening. The prevented me from taking flats in the normal fashion because the telescope tracking failed at flat time, and I was not able to enable the tracking with out a full reboot with a power cycle of the control rack. I also lost tracking at ~+2 hrs hourangle which happened the night prior. Fortunately a HA reset fixed the problem, but there appears to be an issue with >~2 hrs in hourangle tracking by the telescope. This is in contrast to the second half of the evening where I started at ~-4 hrs hrouangle, and had no problem tracking the entire night.
07/08/2025
Robert Berrington
Ball State University
none
arc
7
1
Software/Control PC Issues
Short period variable star program. The telescope control interface was very unstable this evening. At the beginning of the evening I were multiple crashes off the telescope control software. This required multiple full restarts of the system, and two reboots of the computer. I also saw loss of telescope tracking at high hourangle +1-2 hrs. The guide camera was functioning at the start of the night, but crashed about an hour after the start. I was unable to establish any guiding there after.
06/25/2025
Yong Sheng
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann
Andor CCD griz
0
10
Equipment Failure
SARA-RM still down
06/04/2025
Kaylee Grace
University of Delaware/MCAO
Millie Dill, Zach Savery
CCD
0
10
Equipment Failure
SARA-RM still down
06/03/2025
Kaylee Grace
University of Delaware
Millie Dill, Zach Savery
CCD
0
10
Equipment Failure
SARA-RM still down
06/02/2025
Kaylee Grace
University of Delaware/MCAO
Millie Dill, Zach Savery
CCD
0
10
Equipment Failure
SARA-RM still down
05/24/2025
Martha A. Leake
Valdosta State University
none
Andor
0
9
Equipment Failure
Able to log in to the RM computers (a surprise to me) but did not proceed further because of the known dome problem. I did not bring up the ACE screen on the telescope, but did set up a file on the camera computer, which I'll rename and use on another day. Called Ken to check on the computers. It has been a while since I last used RM (maybe November?) I hope this report is sufficient for Peter's request to check on the closure; I did not open the dome, nor had ACE on screen. Weather out there is nice this afternoon, with some clouds expected tonight. Normal start time would have been an hour from now (2:13 ET)
05/21/2025
Ken Rumstay
VSU (emeritus)
None
CCD camera
0
10
Equipment Failure
The telescope is out of commission until dome repairs are complete.
05/17/2025
Zach Savery
University of Delaware
Kaylee Grace
CCD
0
10
Other
Broken dome
05/16/2025
Zach Savery
University of Delaware
Millie Dill, Kaylee Grace
CCD
0
10
Equipment Failure
Dome broken
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