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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
04/04/2025
Billy Quarles
East Texas A&M University
None
Andor
10
0
No problems to report
Observed TESS EBs, clear skies, excellent night.
04/03/2025
Ken Rumstay
VSU (Emeritus)
None
CCD camera
10.5
0
No problems to report
AGN variability. No problems, save for telescope consistently slewing to a point about ten arcminutes west of target. An excellent night, with sub-arcsecind seeing.
03/30/2025
AST 200L
Agnes Scott College
N/A
CCD
8
0
No problems to report
Tracker was slightly off.
03/29/2025
Kaylee Grace
University of Delaware/Mt. Cuba Astronomical Observatory
Tali Natan, Easton Honaker, Zach Savery
CCD
12
0
Software/Control PC Issues
Imaged a bunch of Messier Objects as part of our Messier Marathon! The sequencer wasn't saving images when we first attempted to use it, but closing and reopening the window seemed to fix it. The biggest issue was that our slewing seemed to always be off by about 2 arcminutes in right ascension, meaning that many of our objects were out of frame when we were supposedly at them. There was also a moment when auto done stopped working, after turning it off and back on all was well again.
03/28/2025
William Keel
Univ of Alabama
1 cat
Andor CCD #2
9
0
No problems to report
AGN-ionized clouds. Most targets needed offsets 600" W to center. Focus 128400.
03/26/2025
Ken Watanabe
FGCU
Max Smuda, Jacob Kinney
CT
1
10
Other
Managed to take bias/ darks and opened dome fine with tracking. When taking images, it looks like the mirror cover hadn't opened even though it said it had. Closed mirror cover and dome, set to park.
03/26/2025
Emily Cunningham
East Texas A&M (Commerce)
NA
-
9
0
No problems to report
-
03/22/2025
Henry C Sanders
ERAU
N/A
FLI
7
0
No problems to report
ERAU EP 425 Class, for observation project. My project is on observing T Tauri Stars. I observed CE Antliae, TW Hydrae, T Chamaeleontis and CT Chamaeleontis. I used the g filter, i filter, and Ha 6563 filter. I encountered a problem with the filter wheel but I resolved it by using the "INIT wheel" buttons and returning the wheels to their home positions with an extra step in my sequence. Other than that, conditions were good and I got some good images.
03/20/2025
Yong Sheng
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann
Andor griz
11
0
No problems to report
Clemson blazar study.
03/14/2025
Walter Van Hamme
FIU
Samec
Andor CCD
11
0
No problems to report
Observations of Southern Contact Systems.ASASSN-V J084417.51-181959.7, ASASSN-V J134702.89-572523.8.
03/13/2025
Walter Van Hamme
FIU
Samec
Andor Camera
12
2
Other
Observations of contact binaries. Needed MAXIM DL but could not locate it.
03/12/2025
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
Henson
CCD
6
0.5
No problems to report
Variable star, exoplanet. No problems other than the scope was mis-pointing by quite a bit. G. Henson got that taken care of and everything seems to be working well.
03/08/2025
Martha A. Leake
Valdosta State University
Marissa Norlund
Andor CCD
12
0
No problems to report
Student training; observed clusters and nebulae, then continued with southern objects for class. All worked well, thanks to Ken's hints, Marissa's skill, good weather, and a lack of glitches. Transferring files now and will close VPN after that. Renamed the Tarantula Nebula.
03/04/2025
Billy Quarles
East Texas A&M University
None
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Observed TESS EB, clear skies, excellent night.
03/01/2025
Mariel Lares Martiz
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
none
FLI imager in the 0.6m
7
0
No problems to report
I shared the night with Dr. Otani. I started at 10pm eastern time. The observation session was conducted successfully without any incidents. Data collection proceeded as planned.
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