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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
06/16/2023
S Johns
TX A&M University Commerce
Lena Dietrich, Dr Kurtis Williams
Andor
10.5
0
No problems to report
Observing program was asteroid photometry
06/14/2023
Xianming Han
Butler University
Spencer Decker
CCD
8
1
Clouds
eclipsing binary
06/13/2023
Xianming Han
Butler University
Spencer Decker
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
eclipsing binary
06/12/2023
Xianming Han
Butler University
Spencer Decker
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
eclipsing binaries
06/10/2023
Martha Leake
Valdosta State University
none
Andor CCD
9
2
Clouds
No problems but clouds near 3 am; I closed and finished up, but other scopes are still in use, observing through partly cloudy skies and moonlight. All equipment worked well. Time now 4:20 am.
06/08/2023
William Keel
University of Alabama
2 cats
Andor CCD #2
12
0
No problems to report
AGN hosts, H II regions. Focus 128000. Once while tweaking focus, a message box popped up about initializing a controller (I didn't get its number, but the spectrograph was not selected before or after). Clicking on that, the auxiliary instruments, focus, and observations panels were whited out for a few minutes, then the drive and auto dome had turned off .Tracking does get more irregular in both axes west of about 1h45m west. A few exposures looked as if they had crosstalk during readout only for part of the chip roughly y<750.
06/05/2023
Berrington
Ball State University
none
arc
10
0
Connection Issues
Telescope control computer was unresponsive upon first connection. Todd was able to revive the computer, but it prevented getting evening flats. Fortunately i was able to get morning flats instead.
06/03/2023
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
0
10
Clouds
Exoplanet.
05/31/2023
Yong Sheng
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann
Andor griz
1
10
Equipment Failure
The tracking issue showed up again. It went bad without any indication. The images taken are just all useless for analysis.
05/29/2023
Yong Sheng
Clemson University
Dieter Hatrmann
Andor CCD
11
0
No problems to report
Clemson blazar study
05/30/2023
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
3
9
Clouds
Exoplanet. When I logged in to the telescope, it was far over in the west at the pointing limit and would not move away from that. Eventually that was taken care of and I could use it but cirrus and bright moon made observations difficult so I closed up around midnight.
05/28/2023
Fangyi Zhu
Student
None
CTIO
0
15
Clouds
Clouds, ACE software Reached W. software limit
05/27/2023
Fangyi Zhu
Student
None
CTIO
15
0
No problems to report
Time series for white dwarfs.
05/24/2023
Michael Fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
asteroid photometry
05/22/2023
Michael Fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
0
10
Clouds
clouds never opened
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