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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
03/17/2021
Stephen Levine
Lowell Obs.
Carlos Zuluaga
Imaging camera
11
0
No problems to report
Outer solar system astrometry. At sunset, clear, T=12.6C, RH=56%, Windspeed=4.4mph A smooth night.
03/16/2021
Keefe Kamp
Florida Tech
Caballero, Zamora
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Observed Comets for ObsAstro Class and Standard Feilds with help from guide camera for ETC. Everything behaved normally
03/12/2021
Todd Christopher Hillwig
Valparaiso University
None
FLI CCD
10
0
No problems to report
PN central star monitoring. Only used Filter Wheel #1 and had no issues with it.
03/11/2021
William Keel
University of Alabama
3 cats
FLI CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Dead quasar survey, galaxy dust lanes. Focus 132200. guider focus 2000.
03/10/2021
Martha Leake
Valdosta State University
students
FLI Cam
2
7
Clouds
Added comment: I attempted to change filters from SDSS_R to empty, in order to use the Bessel filters in Wheel 1. The filter change didn't progress, and looked like a blockage of the frame. Ran the initialization of Wheel 2 with unknown success. Filter remains sdss_r.
03/10/2021
Martha Leake
Valdosta State University
Students in Tools class
FLI Cam
2
7
Clouds
80 percent high clouds, star fields visible through it, however. Predicted high humidity reached near morning twilight. Student participation delayed because of local connection issues.
03/07/2021
Ross Silver
Clemson University
Yong, Alex, Dieter
CCD
0
10
Equipment Failure
Photometric redshift of blazars. Filter wheel 2 is still not reliable and working consistently, therefore we could not observe.
03/06/2021
Amy Lovell
Agnes Scott
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Objects for lab - images and lightcurves
03/04/2021
Saida Caballero
FIT
Malagon
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Standard star fields. No issues to report.
03/04/2021
Amy Lovell
Agnes Scott College
AST200L: Kimbarl King Krahm Nguyen
CCD
8
0
No problems to report
Imaging a variety of objects with AST200 lab students
03/02/2021
Keefe Kamp
Florida Tech
Caballero
CCD
4
0
No problems to report
Observed Various Targets with Observational Astronomy Class. Telescope tracking seemed slightly off as stars were elongating even with short (~10 sec) exposures.
02/25/2021
Saida Caballero
FIT
N/A
CCD
0
10
Clouds
Too cloudy to open. From previous night (24 Feb) forgot to mention that the guide camera was not working. Did not test it tonight.
02/24/2021
Saida Caballero
FIT
Kamp, Klare, Le, Zamora
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Class project for creating an Exposure time calculator. No problems to report. CCD was back online after having stopped when aborted the night before.
02/23/2021
Saida Caballero
FIT
Kamp
CCD
10
0
Software/Control PC Issues
Starting taking darks before the end of the night and had to abort the observations for morning flats. Followed the restart instructions for the camera (even restarted both computers) and was not able to get the camera back online. Message is "Exposure start failed."
02/20/2021
Amy J Lovell
Agnes Scott College
CCD
6
5.5
Equipment Failure
Started okay, but then camera disconnected, required ACE intervention. Once restored, no problems to report.
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