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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
09/02/2022
Priya Gokuldass
Florida Tech
None
CCD
0
5
Equipment Failure
Telescope (camera) is not operational at the moment.
09/01/2022
Michael Fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
0
11
Equipment Failure
CCD still kaputt
08/31/2022
Priya Gokuldass
Florida Tech
None
CCD
0
5
Equipment Failure
Telescope (camera) is not operational at the moment.
08/29/2022
Ross Silver
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann
CCD
0
10
Equipment Failure
Telescope is not operational at the moment.
08/26/2022
James Webb
FIU
Jonathon Barata
CCD
0
8
Connection Issues
Stars f Star Trek, blazar microvariability My home computer with VPM wouldn't connect, it is old and fickle. Couldn't log in. I wasn't sure of the other problems at CTIO were fixed anyway.
08/20/2022
Martha Leake
Valdosta State University
none
Andor
0
11
Equipment Failure
No camera at present. From Todd on Friday "Fault in camera connection at SARA-CT, ...part being shipped...estimated several days to a week" (paraphrased). No observing tonight. (Weather was also turning cloudy later.)
08/16/2022
Ross Silver
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann
CCD
0
10
Equipment Failure
I could not observe due to issues with the telescope.
08/17/2022
Yong Sheng
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann
Andor CCD griz
0
12
Equipment Failure
The Andor camera and the QSI camera are not working
08/15/2022
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
0
8
Equipment Failure
M31. CCD would not download images so restarted everything-- telescope limit warnings began flashing when everything came back up, even though no commands had been sent to the telescope.
08/11/2022
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
7
0
Other
Autofocuser would not operate correctly-- everything else worked well.
08/11/2022
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
0
5
Equipment Failure
Camera would not download images. Cloudy all night so it ended up not being a a usable night anyway.
08/06/2022
Alex
Clemson University
Dieter
CCD
0
10
Humidity
Clemson Blazar Photo-z measurement program. High humidity and clouds so did not observe
08/03/2022
William Keel
University of Alabama
3 cats
Andor CCD #2
11.5
0
No problems to report
Transient night - a quilt of asteroids, a comet, supernovae, planets, and the odd filler galaxy. CCD computer sometimes had such poor connection that VNC went down to "low" screen quality, although Dropbox uploads from it stayed very fast. Focus 125000, guider focus 0. Guiding in some parts of the sky acted as if it had little control authority.
08/01/2022
Michael Fauerbach
Florida Gulf Coast University
NA
CCD
10
1
Clouds
High Cirrus and rather poor seeing, but no technical problems to report. Asteroid photometry
07/26/2022
Michael Fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
8
3
Clouds
intermittent clouds, not sure how good data will be. Else no problems to report
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