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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hrs Observed
Hrs Lost
Reason
Observing Program
04/11/2025
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
0
10
Humidity
Humidity-- never opened.
04/03/2025
Samuel Quinutolo
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Collin Sunes
1-M
0
6
Humidity
Did not get to open op the telescope, humidity was fluctuating rapidly above the limit and then it started to rain so I called off the observation.
04/02/2025
XIANMING HAN
Butler University
none
ccd
0
10
Humidity
100% humidity
04/01/2025
William Keel
Univ of Alabama
3 cats
Andor CCD
1
8
Humidity
AGN-ionized clouds. Focus 95700, guider focus 1000. Humidity spiked followed by a cloud cap after about an hour of observing. Dome opened itself in afternoon; had to reboot telescope computer to restore control of CCD camera. Left dome parked at 135 degrees. Out of curiosity I left the telescope tracking on a target at +30 to see when HA disease would set in - this time it was 3:01 west instead of the previous 2:26 W on the same object.
03/30/2025
Todd Vaccaro
Ball State University
N/a
Andor
0
10
Humidity
Never opened b/c of rain/humidity
03/29/2025
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
0
11
Humidity
Humidity and rain-- never opened.
03/28/2025
Martha Leake
Valdosta State University
none
CCD
0
11.5
Humidity
Asteroid photometry
03/27/2025
William Keel
Univ. of Alabama
2 cats
Andor CCD
8
3
Humidity
AGN-ionized clouds. Focus 96674, guide focus 1000. Night light was on, APC rack wouldn't let me turn it off - Peter fixed it. Reset guider ROI from 991 to 99 pixels.Ended night with high and spiking humidity - dome was closed and parked at 135 degrees;
03/26/2025
Ken Watanabe
FGCU
Max Smuda, Jacob Kinney
RM
0
11
Equipment Failure
Upon opening computer, it said "mirror cover fault." Tried clicking "close" and it said "closing" before returning to the fault. Was not able to connect to APC computer to cycle power. Took an image and it did appear that the mirror cover was closed. Dome stayed closed the whole time.
03/24/2025
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
Astronomy Students
Camera
5
1
Wind
High wind about halfway through the night, so closed. Wind died down after a while, but I had no targets the second half of the night, so did not re-open. There was a mirror cover fault when I closed the mirror covers. (Peter found the problem the next morning and fixed). Peter found the dome to be open the next morning. I *think* that I closed it, but don't specifically remember, so it is possible I did not.
03/23/2025
Aarran Shaw
Butler
N/A
CCD
3
5
Equipment Failure
First 3 hours of the night tracked a CV simultaneous with XMM-Newton. Then the tracking problem happened at HA +3, after multiple full restarts I couldn't get the tracking to come back. I had no backup target so I'm calling it a night. The three hours I got will be useful anyway. Dome parked at 235 as requested.
03/18/2025
Kaylee Grace
University of Delaware/Mt. Cuba Astronomical Observatory
Millie Dill, Zach Savery
CCD
8
0
No problems to report
The telescope hit the expected +2HR HA limit while we were observing. Once done, we performed a full ACE reboot, and then closed up and parked the dome at 235 degrees.
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