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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
04/20/2023
Kurtis Wiliams
TAMUC
Fangyi Zhu
Andor
7.5
0
No problems to report
White dwarf time series photometry; night 2 of training for Zhu. Excellent weather. Autoguider still nonfunctional (known problem). ACE telescope control app was showing incorrect civil time (what it claimed was EST was really EDT+1), but computers had correct chilean time, FITS headers are correct and pointing was correct.
04/15/2023
Xianming Han
Butler Univ
none
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
eclipsing binary
04/11/2023
William Keel
University of Alabama
3 cats
Andor CCD #2
9.5
3
Clouds
Also used spectrograph (H-alpha sure is bright in Eta Carinae!). Focus 128000 (Andor CD), 129500 (spectrograph). Could not connect to QSI guide camera. Had to restart Connector Client once during night, and cycle spectrograph power on APC #2 at start of night. Guiding on light around spectrograph fiber with ZWO camera works well. Gotcha: MaximDL camera selection may spontaneously switch 1/2 when going between guiding and regular imaging. Stray light in Andor images may be gone now.
04/10/2023
Isaiah Cox
Clemson University
Yong Sheng, Dieter Hartmann
CCD
7
2
Equipment Failure
Blazars. Problem with autoguider. Used 80s exposures.
04/06/2023
Yong Sheng
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann, Antonio Circiello, Kouser Imam
Andor CCD griz
2
9
Equipment Failure
There is something wrong with guiding. Contacted the SARA tech but it can't be fixed
04/08/2023
Priya Gokuldass
Florida Tech
None
CCD
6
0
No problems to report
ulGRB host galaxy observations
04/07/2023
Gary Henson
ETSU
none
Spectrograph
9.5
0
No problems to report
Spectroscopy of Massive (WR) stars
03/29/2023
Michael Fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
no problems, good night
04/05/2023
Berrington
Ball State University
none
arc
8
0
No problems to report
short period variable stars, no issues with the telescope.
04/03/2023
GARY HENSON
ETSU
none
Spectrograph
9
0
No problems to report
Spectroscopy of Massive (WR) Stars, Some cirrus clouds limiting Flux, but took time to tweak Guider settings and now dialed in!
04/02/2023
Gary Henson
ETSU
none
Spectrograph
9
0
No problems to report
Massive Star, WR star spectroscopy, Did have issue of autoguider oscillation, might be cycling too fast with too short of exposure.
04/02/2023
Berrington
Ball State University
none
arc
8
0
No problems to report
no problems.
03/30/2023
Amy Lovell
Agnes Scott
AST200L students
CCD
7
0
No problems to report
student projects for intermediate lab
03/28/2023
Gary Henson
ETSU
none
Spectrograph
9
0
No problems to report
Spectroscopy of Massive Stars (WR Stars). All worked fine, did have a few connection dropouts to the Spectrograph computer, but Maxim stayed running until logged back in so no disruptions.
03/28/2023
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
Julia Clark, Lindsay Spence
CCD
9
1
Connection Issues
Hot subdwarf stars photometry time series. We could not use the telescope during the first hour because of losing connections. After we build the connection back, we did a little experiment and found out that if more than two devices connect to the telescope, the telescope operating PC does not work.
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