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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hrs Observed
Hrs Lost
Reason
Observing Program
06/14/2020
Walter Van Hamme
FIU
Samec, Faulkner
1-m
8 hours
0
No problems to report
All went well.. Observations of interacting Binaries.
06/10/2020
Brian Brondel
ACE
None
Andor
6
6
Clouds
Tested new software for deployment at ORM. Worked on diagnostics on the pointing, but did not run a full pointing model. I will be tweaking the pointing model in coming days. Looked at trouble with guiding. I can report that the guider is not guiding in the wrong direction, but the reason for the guiding trouble is unclear. More information is needed, but I was interrupted by clouds that moved in around midnight.
06/12/2020
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
Christopher De La Paz, Brian Herbster, Lorena Sanabria
Andor CCD
7
2
Software/Control PC Issues
Observing Program: Photometry Time Series. K2 and TESS follow up. Problems: Camera stopped working (it happens every time we changed the readout mode to 0.05 MHz.). Also, we could not slew the telescope a few times. For both cases, rebooting the system (we follow the instruction on the Desktop of the telescope control PC) worked.
06/10/2020
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
Christopher De La Paz, Brian Herbster, Lorena Sanabria
Andor CCD
9
0
No problems to report
Photometry Time Series. K2 and TESS follow-up observation to check the rotational period of stars.
06/08/2020
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
Brian Herbster, Christopher De La Paz, Lorena Sanabria
Andor CCD
9
0
No problems to report
Photometry Time Series. K2 and TESS follow-up observation to check the rotational period of stars.
06/07/2020
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
Brian Herbster, Christopher De La Paz
Andor CCD
9
0
No problems to report
Photometry time series. K2 and TESS follow-up observation to check the rotational period of stars. Everyting was working well tonight.
06/02/2020
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
Gary Henson
CCD
0
8
Humidity
Rain, clouds, and high humidity for the entire night. No observations.
06/02/2020
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
Christopher De La Paz, Lorena Sanabria, Brian Herbster
Andor Camera
9
0
No problems to report
TESS, Kepler K2 follow-up observation for checking the rotation periods of stars. Good night, and no problem occured. We turned off the camera cooler since it was written in the note on the telescope control PC.
05/31/2020
Chris Karwin
University of Clemson
Yong Sheng, Nuria Torres-Alba, Dieter Hartmann
RM
6
1
Software/Control PC Issues
Fermi-LAT BL Lacs.
05/30/2020
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
Gary Henson
CCD
7
0
No problems to report
Asteroid 6031 Ryokan
05/29/2020
Martha A. Leake
Valdosta State University
none
Andor CCD at JKT
7.5
1
Clouds
Asteroid photometry. Clouds at beginning and end of night. Lost Radmin connection to camera often but easy to reconnect. No problems with programs on each computer. This was my first time observing from home. Pointing placed object southwest of center. Focus found at 99945 (not bad), used focusing tool and reset to 100364 (not the best). Cousins R filter used. Ambient T 14.1 on ClarityII, 11.9 C at NOT. Noted same slant pattern on R flats.
05/26/2020
James Webb
Florida international university
Luna and Twinkle
FLI CCD
10
0
Equipment Failure
Blazar microvqriability
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