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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
02/16/2023
James Webb
FIU
Observational Astrophysics class
CCD
6
0
No problems to report
Class observing Tarantula Nebula Blazar variability: OJ 287, 0420-01
02/18/2023
Xianming Han
Butler Univ
Eric Reed
CCD
8.5
0
No problems to report
eclipsing binary
02/02/2023
Walter Van Hamme
FIU
Samec
Camera
10
0
No problems to report
Observations and Modeling of interacting Binaries.
01/28/2023
Walter Van Hamme
FIU
Samec
Camera
10
1
Connection Issues
Observation and Analysis of Eclipsing Binaries.
02/14/2023
Van Hamme
FIU
Samec
Camers
11
0
No problems to report
Observing and modeling interacting bi9naries.
02/11/2023
Martha Leake
Valdosta State University
Jordan Hewins
Andor
9.25
0
No problems to report
Asteroid light curve and several other objects (galaxies, clusters, planetary nebulae). Great night.
02/06/2023
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
5
0
No problems to report
Asteroid. Cloudy at first but soon cleared.
02/05/2023
Priya Gokuldass
Florida Tech
None
CCD
2
3
Clouds
ULGRB host galaxies observation. Was cloudy at the beginning.
02/04/2023
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
0
8
Clouds
Clouds all night
01/26/2023
Martha A. Leake
Valdosta State University
Tools class of 10 for 2 h, then none
Arc Camera
6
3
Connection Issues
Asteroid photometry after class. Unable to access the camera computer. Help from Todd, Ken and Yong Sheng (and Bill). Todd power cycled the camera computer and it responded to radmin. I activated connector client and the telescope PC was able to send images to the camera PC. No problems after that. Thank you to all.
01/25/2023
William Keel
University of Alabama
2 cats
Andor CCD
8
0
No problems to report
Merging galaxies, LMC H II regions. Focus 128500, guider focus 8900. Reset guider parameters.
01/24/2023
Scott Joffre
Clemson University
Hartmann
CCD
4
null
Software/Control PC Issues
Had tracking/slewing issues - after 1-2 300s observations. Would slew away and slew back, correcting for only a short time. May also have had some focus issues in conjunction, became difficult to correct for both.
01/21/2023
Ken Rumstay
VSU (Emeritus)
Apollo the cat
Andor camera
9
0
No problems to report
AGN observations. Telescope tracking very good. Telescope tends to point north of target by varying amounts (depending on declination) after slewing.
01/20/2023
jim webb
Florida International University
none
ccd
4
0
No problems to report
Blazars monitoring, Stars of Star Trek, tarantula nebula
01/17/2023
Isaiah Cox
Clemson University
Yong Sheng, Dieter Hartmann
Andor CCD
9
0
No problems to report
Clemson blazar study
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