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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
11/14/2022
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
7
0
No problems to report
Exoplanet
11/13/2022
Yong Sheng
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann
Andor griz
6
4
Clouds
There were a lot of clouds for the first half of the night. I also noticed that there was an out-of-focus problem.
11/09/2022
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
None
CCD
7
1
Clouds
Photometry time series. Everything was working well.
11/01/2022
VanHamme
FIU
Samec
photometer
10
0
No problems to report
Observations of interacting binaries. Wise042533.0 Samec
10/28/2022
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
Erin Abraham, Adrian Moraga
CCD
5
0
No problems to report
Public Outreach. Great night with no problem.
10/27/2022
William Keel
University of Alabama
Class
Andor CCD #2
9
0
No problems to report
Class demo, galaxies. Focus 126600, guide focus 1000. Guiding had apparent hysteresis (did not keep up with drifts), or gave sawtooth pattern in RA, in some parts of the sky.
10/25/2022
William Keel
University of Alabama
AY20 class
Andor CCD #2
8
0
No problems to report
Class demo, star clusters, galaxies, nebulae. Focus 125700 (changed around the sky), guider focus +1000.
10/22/2022
Matt Wood
Texas A&M University Commerce
NA
CCD
0
12
Software/Control PC Issues
Connection Client not working on SARA CAM. Without this, time of exposure start is not written to FITS header, so I can't use the data for time series. I will email sara-tech to see if anybody needs imaging data and doesn't care about time precision.
10/21/2022
Matt Wood
Texas A&M University-Commerce
None
CCD
0
12
Software/Control PC Issues
Time series photometry of intermediate polars. First time on CTIO in a long time. Got things going with a little help from Brian and Kurtis and Todd. DS9 was not displaying images, but I managed. At about 06:00 UT I realized that the exposure start time was not being written to FITS headers, so data are basically useless. The Connector Client is not working on Camera computer. It will not start - crashes every time. I restarted the computer and that did not help. I did a reboot from the PDU, and that did not help. Tried again, and now I can't even get SARACAM back in VNC. So I'm shutting down for the night. It was a beautiful night with reported sub-arcsecond seeing. It would be helpful to have instructions on how to get things going again on the desktop or website. Nowhere could I find the instructions for how to restart everything from scratch. Such a document would be useful to have on the desktop. Why is "other observers" a required field of this form? (yes, I'm grumpy).
10/20/2022
Kyle Pellegrin
Clemson University
N/A
CCD
3.5
0
No problems to report
Good conditions at the observatory.
10/19/2022
Lilyanne Pepe, Jacob Romeo
ERAU
Stephen Gillam
ARK
0
3.5
Connection Issues
Camera GUI would not connect, tried restarting NODE service multiple times , restarted both computers, recycled ARK camera power and camera computer and eventually lost VPN connection to the camera computer in the process. roAp research
10/14/2022
Martha Leake
Valdosta State University
none
Andor
10.5
0
No problems to report
Great weather and conditions; all equipment worked. Pointing a bit north of center as Ken noted.
10/13/2022
Michael Fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
9
0
No problems to report
asteroid photometry
10/13/2022
Lilyanne Pepe, Divyeshwari Vansadia
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Steve Gillam
ARC Camera
8.5
0
No problems to report
The telescope computer was a little slow starting up, but after the first 30 minutes, there were no issues. Weather was fantastic and collected lots of data! roAp research team
10/10/2022
Gary Henson
ETSU
none
Andor CCD
6.5
0
No problems to report
Asteroid light curve, no problems all systems working fine.
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