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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hrs Observed
Hrs Lost
Reason
Observing Program
04/26/2021
Roi Alonso
IAC
none
CCD
6
2
Humidity
WDs. Tried autoguiding without success. Setting binning to 2, regions all to 1 and "auto ROI" worked for a few images, then the star moved out of the field. Making any change in the autoguiding setup typically involves a full reset. Without autoguiding I noticed some DEC sudden jumps (about 30 px) during the night, probably the reason of the failure above. Dome got stucked at az aprox. 330, and the end of the night the humidity was unstable.
04/26/2021
Ken Rumstay
VSU
None
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
AGN monitoring program. Had to recycle dome azimuth power once.
04/22/2021
Javier Licandro
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Hissa Medeiros
Andor camera (JKT)
8
2
Other
The weathering at the beginning of the night was good, but it was getting worse until be impossible to observe (the seeing reached 5.8'').
04/22/2021
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
None
Andor CCD
9
1.5
Other
some time lost to tracking turning off for targets in the northwest at an airmass of about 1.7 One hour lost to clouds at the end of the night.
04/21/2021
Saida Caballero
FIT
Observational Astronomy class
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
End of the semester observing for class. Did not try to use guider due to the previous nights report.
04/18/2021
Roi Alonso
IAC
none
ccd
7
1
Equipment Failure
WDs, no filter. Focus 100426. Tried autoguiding, but despite having an apparently good star in the window, there were no offsets sent. Stopping the guiding sequenece to e.g. increase the exp. time makes the autoguiding camera unresponsive and needs a full reset to get it back. Observed with no guiding. Tracking issues (stopped in RA) at end of the night, not solved with the usual RA reset; needed a full reset.
04/17/2021
Martha Leake
Valdosta State University
none
Andor
9.75
0
No problems to report
Asteroid photometry for light curves and selected objects for Stars and Galaxies class. No problems. Weather OK with some wind. Transfer in progress.
04/15/2021
Javier Licandro
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Hissa Medeiros
Andor camera (JKT)
8
2
Other
The humidity raised to 100% during a couple of hours. After the humidity dropped and stabilized, it was possible to observe normally until the end of the night.
04/05/2021
James Raymond Webb
Florida International University
none
CCD
0
10
Connection Issues
local network down
04/14/2021
Michael Fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
2
8
Other
Misunderstanding about availabilty of the night. CCD computer is very slow and has warning that disk space is low. Deleted all my files at end of the night. Autofocus failed multiple times. MaximDL has issues. I assume this is all due to the full disk space?
04/12/2021
XIANMING HAN
Butler University
none
CCD
0
10
Clouds
The computer disks are quite full. Please take a look at it.
04/08/2021
XIANMING HAN
Butler University
none
CCD
0
10
Clouds
none
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