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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hrs Observed
Hrs Lost
Reason
Observing Program
05/14/2021
Stefan Geier
GRANTECAN / IAC
none
ARC CCD Camera
8
0.3
Equipment Failure
At the beginning of the night (around the end of astronomical twilight), the telescope suddenly stopped tracking, and when I tried to point again, it failed with a message about an "equipment error". I then did the "full restart" which is described in the readme, and after that, it worked fine again.
05/11/2021
Chloe Nelson
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach, FL
Stephen Gillam
Andor Camera
11
2
Equipment Failure
ROAP Stars <3 We conducted two "azimuth recycles" (found in the notes) during our observation and one "full restart" (also found in the notes).
05/12/2021
Chloe Nelson
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach, FL
Stephen Gillam and Kiara Richardson
Andor Camera
13
0
No problems to report
ROAP Stars No problems :))
05/13/2021
Chloe Nelson
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach, FL
Stephen Gillam and Kiara Richardson
Andor Camera
13 hours
none
No problems to report
ROAP Stars No problems :)
05/09/2021
James Webb
Florida International University
Viviana Arroyave, Luna Webb, Sparkle Webb
CCD
9
0
Other
blazar microvriability Wasn't able to park telesope in recommended position. It kept telling me that location was out of limits, so I left it zenith parked.
05/09/2021
Todd Vaccaro
BSU
None
Andor CCD
7
3.5
Humidity
Eclipsing binary; ACE crashed twice, but simple restart seemed to fix, but I had to reset most observing parameters; Humidity over 80% during last 3 hrs and never dropped to reopen.
05/07/2021
Ross Silver
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann
CCD
9
0
No problems to report
Photometric redshift of blazars.
05/05/2021
Ed Albin
Agnes Scott College
Amy Lovell
CCD
9
1
Software/Control PC Issues
Imaging training, M101 galaxy. Note: Focus setting for BVR filters was 98300. Focus setting for Empty filter was 100400. Software crashed "Ace Client software not working." Rebooted to restore session.
05/02/2021
Javier Licandro
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Hissa Medeiros
Andor camera (JKT)
7
3
Humidity
The humidity at the beginning of the night varied between 70% and 100%. The humidity was stable after 00:00 UTC.
05/30/2021
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
None
Andor CCD
0
10
Clouds
High humidity early followed by clouds.
05/01/2021
Stephen Gillam
ERAU
Savannah Caldwell, Leila Alamos, Aakash Thyigarajan, Lilyanne Pepe, Chloe Nelson Kiara Richardson
Andor CCD
11
4
Equipment Failure
ROAp stars. The dome azimuth rotation stopped working around 5 AM. We carried out the following procedures. 1. Full ACE client restart. Three times. No joy there. 2. Azimuth recycle. Twice. It worked on the second attempt. Dome did not need homing. The first attempt likely failed because we turned OFF the recycle, then turned it on.
04/28/2021
Saida Caballero
FIT
Kamp
CCD
0
10
Clouds
Massive star survey
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