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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
11/02/2021
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
Johnathan Hodge
Andor CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Hot Subdwarf photometry observation for time series. Everything was working well tonight.
11/01/2021
William Keel
University of Alabama
2 cats
Andor CCD #2
3
5
Clouds
NGC 1531, dodging clouds. Focus 128300, guider focus 8400. Very poor seeing early in night.
10/31/2021
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
none
Andor CCD
7
0
Clouds
Hot subdwarf photometry time series. When I slew the telescope, the RA did not move. If I click the "slew" button again, it started moving with no problem.
10/30/2021
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
Johnathan Hodge
Andor CCD
8
2
Equipment Failure
When we logged into the telescope control screen at the beginning of the night, we saw DEC limit (we saw all "N", "S", "W", "E") and could not slew the telescope. We also could not slew telescope using the pad. However, the airmass was 1.4. Peter helped me to fixed it. Peter said that it happened due to Loose wire on the telescope, or faulty tilt sensor, or something like that.
10/29/2021
Paulina Karczmarek
Universidad de Concepción
None
Andor CCD
7
1
Clouds
Thin clouds for majority of the night, so backup targets observed. Thick clouds in the last 2h of the night hindered observations of even backup targets.
10/27/2021
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
Johnathan Hodge
Andor CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Hot subdwarf photometry observation. No problems to report.
10/26/2021
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
8
1
Software/Control PC Issues
Standard stars, variable star. No issues other than one I caused by closing the wrong window-- a full restart fixed it.
10/24/2021
XIANMING HAN
Butler University
none
CCD
7.5
0
Other
eclipsing binary. The telescope was parked beyond the west limit from previous day, and I could not move it back. Peter from ACE helped moving the telescope back to operation range. The CCD camera was also way out of focus such that no stars were visible initially and got me confused for awhile, but I was able to realize the problem and fixed the focus.
10/26/2021
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
None
Andor CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Hot Subdwarf photometry time series. No problem to report. Focus 129000 (no filter). CCD temperature: -55 C
10/23/2021
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
6
2
Software/Control PC Issues
Exoplanet. Image downloads were VERY slow (several minutes for each bias frame). Rebooted the CCD computer and it worked after that. The CCD sequence control on the telescope computer failed to work so rebooted the telescope computer as well-- took several tries to get it back up and running.
10/22/2021
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
None
Andor CCD
8
0
No problems to report
Testing new Andor CCD. PN central stars.
10/21/2021
Keefe Kamp
FIT
Gokuldass, Norton
CCD
9
0
No problems to report
TESS Follow-up Observations. Was able to connect this time with Ubuntu. No new problems to report
10/20/2021
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
8
0
No problems to report
Exoplanet Transit, variable star
10/19/2021
Keefe Kamp
FIT
Gokuldass, Norton
CCD
9
1
Software/Control PC Issues
TESS follow-up observations. Could not connect to VPN from Ubuntu but from Mac worked. Ace froze when abort was pressed. Simple closing and reopening ACE fixed it. Weird banding artifact present in observations strongest in B caused low SNR.
10/18/2021
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
8
0
No problems to report
No problems-- all went well.
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