SARA 

Tom Rutherford

ETSU

None

CCD

0

8

Connection Issues

Unable connect -- no problems with the VPN, but the telescope and CCD computers failed to connect. Made numerous attempts throughout the night.

Keefe Kamp

ERAU

NA

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Nothing to Report. Normal Night observing fields around Be stars

Tom Rutherford

ETSU

None

CCD

7

0

No problems to report

Exoplanet. No issues-- everything worked well (once I got a connection issue figured out-- faulty setting on my computer.)

Robert Berrington

Ball State University

none

arc

3.5

6.5

Equipment Failure

Short period variable stars. Noticed a darkening on the CCDimage. I will post an example of an image on the Discord server, but I tried homing the dome, as well as initializing the filter wheel to see if that would fix the problem. It did not.

Keefe Kamp

ERAU

Caballero

CCD

7

0

Connection Issues

Observing Fields around Be stars went well. Could not connect to SOAR site conditions until the morning.

Patrick Stanley

University of Delaware

Tali Natan, Easton Honaker, Kaylee Grace, Olivia Grace

Andor Camera

10

0

No problems to report

Photometry of lam pav

Patrick Stanley

University of Delaware

Tali Natan, Kaylee Grace, Easton Honaker

Camera

8

3

Clouds

Photometry of lam Pav

Xianming Han

Butler University

none

ccd

10.5

0

No problems to report

eclipsing binary

Xianming Han

Butler University

none

ccd

5.5

4.5

Clouds

eclipsing binary

Xianming Han

Butler University

none

ccd

10

0

No problems to report

eclipsing binary

Xianming Han

Butler University

none

ccd

11

0

No problems to report

eclipsing binary

Xianming Han

Butler University

none

ccd

11

0

No problems to report

eclipsing binary

Michael Fauerbach

FGCU

NA

CCD

0

12

Connection Issues

local -on my side- connection issues

Catalina Ávalos-Vega

Universidad de Antofagasta

Penélope Longa-Peña

-

7

1

Connection Issues

The observation started around 21:00 (UT). At the beginning of the observation a problem was encountered with the telescope computer connection, in this case the vnc connection took a long time to connect to the computer. To solve this problem the telescope computer was rebooted. This solved this problem for most of the night. The calibration images were obtained during 10-11 (UT). The shots were taken from the g and u filters of the SDSS. During the night, some standard stars were observed to know the response, limits and characteristics of the telescope. The target for the night was TOI-181, which experienced a transit starting at 03:51 (UT) and ending at 09:22 (UT). The star was visible starting at 3 am (UT), field identification took 20 minutes. Telescope pointing was correct by a few arc minutes of the target star. Imaging of the target was started from 7:00 (UT), but there were a couple of connection errors during this process so imaging was resumed regularly from 7:31 (UT). The transit was observed using the defocusing technique, which consists of defocusing the telescope to improve the reading noise of the measurements. For this purpose, the focus was changed from 127000 to 120502 defocused. Windowing was also performed to optimize the CCD readout time, with Left=0; Bottom=0; Right=1400; Top=2048. The end of the measurements occurred at 09:45 (UT). Additional calibration images were obtained from up to 7:30 a.m. (Chilean time). The telescope closed at 7:25 am (Chilean time). The nighttime characteristics were: Night temperature: -2.8 to 2.8 °C. Humidity: 45-50%. Wind speed: 1 mph during most of the night. Cloudiness: ranged from 40-66%. Summary of errors: - The calibration image type does not appear in the name preview, but the name is correctly saved in the directory afterwards. - Time was off by a few minutes from local time. - Constant vcn connection failures on the Telescope computer.

Patrick Stanley

University of Delaware

Kaylee Grace, Easton Honaker, Tali Natan

CT telescope

3

7

Clouds

Photometry of lam pav