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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
02/04/2022
Martha Leake
Valdosta State University
none
Andor
9
0
No problems to report
Asteroids. Remembered to check Autosave. Good night. Adjusted to objects slightly below and right of center. Seeing good but best focus produced stars 2.5 arcsec or larger.
02/02/2022
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
None
Andor CCD
9
0
Other
There was a jump in best focus values during the night. I could not tell if the best focus actually changed significantly in a short time (unlikely since the temperature changed slowly and steadily), if the focus encoder value changed, or some other issue.
02/01/2022
Michael Fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
6.5
2
Clouds
asteroids
01/31/2022
William Keel
University of Alabama
3 cats
Andor CCD #2
7.5
1
Clouds
Galaxy mergers, 30 Dor. Tape installed by TELOPS did NOT eliminate stray-light problem. Focus 129400, guider focus 10500. Seeing improved dramatically during the night. Iimage quality (and shape) at best focus varied noticeably with position.
01/27/2022
Ken Rumstay
VSU
None
CCD camera
10
0
No problems to report
AGN monitoring program. The telescope slews to points slightly north (by varying amounts) of target.
01/24/2022
Ross Silver
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann
CCD
4
4
Equipment Failure
Photometric redshift of blazars. The telescope stopped tracking objects and would not move to the input coordinates. It moved to some unrecognizable field. After restarting the system, these issues were still present.
01/21/2022
Stephen Gillam
ERAU
Alondra Valentin-Torres (ERAU)
Andor camera
11
0
No problems to report
ROAp stars.
01/21/2022
Ted von Hippel
ERAU
Alondra Valentin-Torres
imaging
2
0
No problems to report
Training for student. Used two hours, then passed telescope to Steve Gillam (ERAU) for his work.
01/17/2022
William Keel
University of Alabama
3 cats
Andor CCD #2
8.5
0
No problems to report
JWST light curve (it's a technosignature). Focus 128500, guider focus 8400.
01/15/2022
James Webb
Florida International Univerrsity
none
CCD
0
10
Connection Issues
I couldn't go in to observe and my laptop at home doesn't have VNC on it. I tried to give it away, but no takers.
01/16/2022
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
None.
Andor CCD
7
1.5
Humidity
PN central star monitoring. Humidity rose at end of night and had to close for the last hour and a half.
01/10/2022
Alex McDaniel
Clemson University
Dieter
Andor CCD
5
4
Clouds
Clemson blazer redshift study. Had some clouds for about half the night after midnight, otherwise ok.
01/04/2022
Yong Sheng
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann
CT griz
9
0
No problems to report
Clemson blazer redshift study. The night went well, no problem to report.
01/03/2022
William Keel
University of Alabama
2 cats
Andor CCD #2
8
0
No problems to report
Merging galaxies, Comet Leonard, 30 Dor, JWST. Focus 127200, gudie focus 0. After working fine for the last couple of weeks, solar-syste rates acted almost random near 0h, dec=0. Some exposures were at sidereal rates, others wandered in both coordinates. Focus changed a lot at end night; in some parts of the sky best images were still elongated E-W.
12/29/2021
Van Hamme, Walter
FIU
Samec
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Observations of GSC 7093 0006 and 75170134.
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