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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hrs Observed
Hrs Lost
Reason
Observing Program
10/05/2022
Martha A Leake
Valdosta State University
none although more were planned
Andor
0
10
Humidity
Humidity from 75 to 96% most of the night; aerosols were 50 microg/m3 to 38 or so all night; did not open. Cirrus clouds (and bright moon) present until early morning hours. No problems in connections or equipment.
10/04/2022
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
None
Andor CCD
0
10
Clouds
Clouds all night
10/02/2022
Roi Alonso
IAC
none
ccd
10
1
Other
WD photometry. QSI camera not responding (T=1000C, dimensions 0x0px), so no autoguiding possible. Dome stucked at typical AZ=315º position, solved with az reset and rotating in the other sense.
09/29/2022
William Keel
University of Alabama
2 cats
Andor CCD
11
0
No problems to report
Galaxies, When first connecting, both computers showed black screens; at Brian Brondel's suggestion, rebooted both computers to fix this. Focus 98300.
09/26/2022
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
None
Andor CCD
0
10
Humidity
Clouds and high humidity all night.
09/25/2022
University of Alabama
2 cats
Andor CCD
0
9
Clouds
Galaxies. Weather wipeout.
09/23/2022
Michael Fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
0
10
Clouds
outer bands of TS Hermine....
09/20/2022
Van Hamme
FIU
Samec
CCD
4
5
Humidity
Observing interacting eclipsing binaries. I was able to catch 0.2 d period eclipsing binary last night for nearly a full cycle.
09/18/2022
Ross Silver
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann
CCD
1
9
Humidity
Calculating photometric redshift of blazars
09/17/2022
Martha Leake
Valdosta State University
none
Andor
0
9
Humidity
Asteroid photometry. Did not open because of clouds, high wind, high humidity, rain, high aerosols (which decreased). Will download darks, biases later today. Left near morning twilight.
09/15/2022
Javier Licandro
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Hissa Medeiros
Andor camera (JKT)
0
8
Wind
Asteroid photometry
09/10/2022
Todd Vaccaro
Ball State University
Morgan Moore, Mel Isenbarger
Andor CCD
9
0
Software/Control PC Issues
EB program. Found the telescope and dome not parked correctly and were pointing NW (Dec +58). Zenith parking kept saying vignetting, reset tele ACE, then full reset, but never changed, though the Mirror cover stopped blinking that it was trying to open and simply said open. Camera not controllable from tele computer, so ran from Cam computer, but it wasn't filling in the headers with observer or object until the end of the night when I typed new information in. AIJ missing and C drive is full (D image drive not a problem) and had trouble getting MaximDL to open images till later on. The Focus routine on tele side would do its thing, but then plot nothing for bright star field or faint, so left as is for focus, but feel it could have been much better as mnt reporting 0.6" or less most the night; I was getting 1.4 down to 1.1". Cam computer also started up with an error saying that it failed to update Windows. I couldn't get the dome cam to work, which would've been nice since at one point I thought the dome/tele weren't lined up (Az were off by 70 degrees and I saw a lot of moonlight for an hour and a dark shadow of something bottom left on images).
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