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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
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
01/14/2023
Priya Gokuldass
Florida Tech
None
CCD
8.3
0
No problems to report
ultra long GRB host galaxy observation.
01/13/2023
Yong Sheng
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann
Andor CCD griz
8
0
No problems to report
Clemson blazar study.
01/12/2023
Priya Gokuldass
Florida Tech
None
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
ultra long GRB host galaxy observation. Had initial connection issues for few minutes.
01/04/2023
William Keel
University of Alabama
2 cats
Andor CCD #2
7
2
Equipment Failure
LMC str-forming regions. Focus 127000, guide focus 8900. Drive shut down once near 0H -70. Had several connection interruptions (possibly local), decided to shut down after recovering from one 30m before twilight for safety.
12/29/2022
William Keel
University of Alabama
2 cats
Andor CCD #2
8
0
No problems to report
Calm midsummer night. Merging galaxies outside Legacy Survey coverage. Focus 127600, guider focus 9330. One incidence of guider running away to SW, near 3h30 E -26. Internal stray light still present. CCD computer still accessible only via RAdmin, so using Mac I had to connect to telescope computer with VNC and the use RAdmin from there.
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