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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hrs Observed
Hrs Lost
Reason
Observing Program
01/15/2021
Roi Alonso
IAC
none
ccd
0
12
Snow
Low temperatures and ice at the Mercator telescope webcams before sunset. The ING weather station looks frozen, the NOT is reporting high winds . Did not open, in case there is still some ice on the dome (could not find any webcam showing JKT, but it seems no telescopes are operating tonight). The different meteo stations seem affected (humidity from 6 to 100%, winds from 0 to 60 km/h, temps from -4 to 24 degrees)
01/14/2021
michael fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
0
12
Connection Issues
Connection issue and dome completely iced over.
01/13/2021
Ken Watanabe
FGCU
Nick Rimbert
CCD
0
9
Connection Issues
Bad Wx and not able to connect. Mx aware of the issue.
01/11/2021
William Keel
University of Alabama
3 cats
Andor CCD
0
12
Clouds
Dead quasar survey. If it wasn't the clouds, it was the humidity, and if not that, the leftover ice.
01/07/2021
Michael Fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
0
12
Humidity
Never opened, wet all night long.
01/06/2021
Judi Provencal
University of Delaware and MCAO
None
Andor
0
8
Humidity
Rain and humidity.
01/03/2021
Roi Alonso
IAC
none
CCD
0
12
Humidity
Raining.
01/02/2021
Javier Licandro
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Hissa Medeiros
Andor camera (JKT)
0
12
Software/Control PC Issues
The telescope showed one error (on telescope position window - Telescope limits: Hardware HA/Az axis positive and Hardware Dec/Alt axis positive). I did the full restart two times and I try to send the telescope to zenith position, but the telescope did not move and it did not respond. Beyond that, all night was cloudy.
12/30/2020
Roi Alonso
IAC
none
CCD
0
12
Humidity
100% humidity.
12/29/2020
Alec Neal
Ball State University
Robert Berrington
ARC
7
3
Software/Control PC Issues
High humidity beginning the night. High aerosol throughout night. ACE client crashed a few times, required multiple resets and restarting telescope computer.
12/26/2020
Javier Licandro
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Hissa Medeiros
Andor camera (JKT)
0
12
Humidity
The humidity was 100% all night.
12/23/2020
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
Gary Henson
Andor CCD
11
0
No problems to report
M31, asteroid. No problems.
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