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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
06/17/2021
Michael Fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
9
3
Clouds
Clouds off and on throughout the night. Heavy cloud cover in the morning.
06/15/2021
Kurtis Williams
TAMU-C
Mabel Clausen & Harum Ahmed (REU students)
N/A
0
12
Clouds
A text note was open on the desktop saying that due to testing the telescope limits had been disabled and the telescope should not be used. Was that a one-day affair, or is this ongoing for multiple nights? If the latter, perhaps a note should go out to sara-tech... (This didn't affect us since clouds were thick and the weather forecast poor)
06/13/2021
Stephen Levine
Lowell Obs.
C. Zuluaga, A. Bosh
Andor Camera
1
9
Equipment Failure
Outer solar system astrometry and Pluto occultation. When trying to pre-set to the night's occultation field, which was going to be very low and rising, the telescope became stuck in the limits and would not back out. No motions responded from the hand paddle. In the end, we closed things up as it was.
06/12/2021
Yong Sheng
Clemson University
None
CT griz
13
0
No problems to report
Clemson Blazar study.
06/10/2021
Ken Rumstay
VSU (retired)
None
CCD camera
12.5
0
No problems to report
AGN monitoring program. An excellent night, with a dark sky and sub-arcsecond seeing.
06/09/2021
William Keel
University of Alabama
3 cats
Andor CCD
7.5
0
No problems to report
Nebulae, galaxies behind dust. Focus=126500, guider focus 9000.
06/07/2021
Stephen Levine
Lowell Obs.
C. Zuluaga, A. Bosh
Andor Camera
2
0
No problems to report
Outer solar system astrometry.
06/06/2021
Steve Gillam
ERAU
None
Andor Camera
12
0
No problems to report
ROAp stars
06/01/2021
Michael Fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
7
4
Equipment Failure
As mantioned in my email to sara-tech, the whole telescope computerACE crashed after a CCD abort. After recovering, the Default DEC Encoder fault kept flashing. Tried to reboot computer etc but nothing got rid of it. I was able to park, close the covers and close the dome shutters -at least it said it did. I have not seen this error before, and I was not able to recover from it.
05/21/2021
XIANMING HAN
Butler Univ
none
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
eclipsing binaries
05/20/2021
XIANMING HAN
Butler Univ
none
CCD
0
10
Clouds
none
05/19/2021
XIANMING HAN
Butler Univ
none
CCD
0.25
10
Clouds
eclipsing binary
05/31/2021
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
7
0
No problems to report
Landolt Fields. Open Clusters. No problems at all.
05/28/2021
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
0
9
Clouds
Clouds all night-- unable to open.
05/23/2021
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
7
0
No problems to report
Landolt fields. No problems-- everything worked perfectly.
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