SARA 

Kurtis Williams

none

Andor

0

10

Other

True story: I fell asleep on the couch while observing Saturday night and did something to my back that was excruciatingly painful all day Sunday. I took some good drugs to let me sleep, but I was not going to be able to operate the telescope safely. I offered the night at the last minute on Sara-tech but no takers.

Kurtis Williams

none

Andor

8

0

No problems to report

Beautiful night, no issues, moderate seeing (2.5")

William Keel

2 cats

Andor CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Comet, AGN hosts, SN locations. Focus 128200. Solar-system track rates still need the sign of dec rate changed.

William Keel

Sam Grunblatt, AY203

Andor CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Computers rebooted overnight. AGN hosts, comet SWAN, and class targets. Focus 125500.

William Keel

Sam Grunblatt, AY203

Andor CCD

7

2

Clouds

Focus 127800-->127000 during night. Clouds thickened, closed at 0300 local time.

Daniela Garcia-Lara

n/a

Telescope

7

2

Connection Issues

Weather conditions were great. The camera stopped connecting during the last two hours of my observing time, and I attempted to use the instructions on the notepad but was unable to follow.

Ken Watanabe

Jonathan Zielinski

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Other than camera disconnecting at the start all went well. I was quickly able to reconnect the camera by following the notepad instructions. Dome is returned home, telescope parked, shutters both closed, and mirror is covered.

Michael Fauerbach

none

CCD

9

0

No problems to report

Asteroid Photometry

Hernandez, Robinson,

Gillam

Telescope, Camera

9

0

No problems to report

N/A

Michael Fauerbach

M.P. Lucas

CCD

2.5

7.5

Connection Issues

Lost connection to SARA CT VPN. Could not reestablish connection. Call it a night at 1:30am EDT.

Michael Fauerbach

NA

CCD

4.5

6.5

Clouds

Asteroid photometry.

Billy Quarles

None

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

TESS EBs. Had to go through reconnection procedure for camera at beginning of night. No problems after that. Clear skies. Found focus at 127000

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

6

0

Equipment Failure

No issues except at some point, the CCD stopped writing the images to the target folder. i doubled-checked that I had the path right (and I did) so I have no idea what happened to them or where they went (or why the wouldn't save).

Ken Watanabe

Jonathan, Xavier

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

All went well. Telescope parked, mirror cover closed, dome closed and home.

Stephen Gillam

Matney, Hernandez

0.6 m

11

0

No problems to report

N/A

Michael Fauerbach

Mike Lucas

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

NEA astrometry

Gillam

TJ, Matthew, Nishi

0.6m

11

0

No problems to report

Microvariables. Focus: 125000

Billy Quarles

None

CCD

9

1

Software/Control PC Issues

TESS EBs; Mostly cloudy at twilight, but cleared after a couple hours. Found Camera was not connected to the telescope when taking darks. Had to go through connection procedure from txt file on telescope computer. Everything worked afterwards. Found focus at 127000

Ken Watanabe

Jonathan, Xavier

CCD

0

8

Software/Control PC Issues

Files would not save when I tried using the cameras. Do not know if camera was connecting correctly or what was happening. Exposures wouldn't fully run. No other issues to report. Dome closed and at home. Telescope stowed and mirror cover closed. 9/16/25

Ken Rumstay

None

CCD camera

9

0

No problems to report

AGN variability program. No problems, other than the sky being very bright by the nearly full Moon. The telescope pointing and tracking were excellent.

William Keel

none

Andor CCD

3

7

Clouds

Not aliens. Focus 126100.

Kaylee Grace

Millie Dill, Zach Savery, Evelyn Palmer, Ben Kaiser

CCD

11

1

Other

Observed a white dwarf. Had some issues with slewing being off at the beginning but after advice from Bob and Todd (thanks again!) the declination being off by ~10 minutes was fixed by sending the telescope to zenith and then slewing to the target again. No issues after that!

William Keel

DragonCon Live Astronomy

Andor CCD

0

4

Clouds

Fog.

William Keel

DragonCon Live Astronomy

Andor CCD

0

4

Clouds

Fog.

Robert Berrington

none

arc

9

0

Other

Everything worked well with the exception of the QSI camera for the guider was not responding. So no guiding...

Martha A. Leake

none

ARC

0

10

Humidity

Clouds, high humidity at nearby sites, precipitation earlier (snow and fog). Drying out after midnight, but frost expected for rest of the night. Did not open Looking better later in the weekend. .

Gary Henson

Flores Moraga

Andor CCD

0

8

Humidity

First Observing Night / standby training for new Chilean Observer. Fog and high humidity so never opened.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

3

8

Clouds

Pointing was off by over a field making it difficult to find my target though there were no other issues. Cloudy before sunset although clouds had moved away by then so was able to open. Clouds moved back in about four hours after sunset so closed up.

Isaiah Cox

Dieter Hartmann

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Clemson blazars.

Gary Henson

Rutherford

Andor CCD

6

0

No problems to report

Mainly training for Chilean observer, some Cirrus bands so a poor photometric night.

William Keel

2 cats

Andor CCD #2

3.5

0

No problems to report

Observer training. Focus 127800.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

0

11

Clouds

Cloudy all night-- never opened.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

0

8

Connection Issues

Unable to connect to CCD computer (made several attempts) -- not an issue with the VPN since I had no problem connecting to the telescope computer.

William Keel

Sam Grunblatt

Andor CCD #2

0

11

Snow

Webcam at dusk looked as if the whole mountaintop had fallen into diffuse colors.

Van Hamme

Samec

ANDOR Camera

0

10

Clouds

Observations of near contact binaries.

Walter Van Hamme

Samecv

ANDOR Cam

0

10

Clouds

Observations of Close Eclipsing Binaries.

Billy Quarles

ETAMU REU

CCD

0

10

Clouds

Cloudy all day, forecast to persist through the night with >90% coverage. Did not open.

Billy Quarles

Jacqueline Venuto

CCD

9

0

No problems to report

I was observing the exoplanet/Hot Jupiter HATS-12. Used a focus of 126502 for the entire duration.

Michael Fauerbach

NA

CCD

2

9

Clouds

Clouds after a couple of hours

Michael Fauerbach

NA

CCD

9

2

Clouds

Asteroid photometry, intermittent clouds

Michael Fauerbach

NA

CCD

7

4

Clouds

Asteroid photometry. Clouds throughout most of the night, until it became completely overcast.

Aarran Shaw

None

CCD Camera

7

4

Clouds

CV candidate. Clouds rolled in at around 2:30am so I called it a night.

Kaylee Grace

Maura Kelley

CCD

5

0

No problems to report

Did some imaging! No problems to report :)

Robert Berrington

none

arc

0

10

Clouds

Short Period variable star program. Persistent clouds prevented opening up.

Billy Quarles

Sierra Kunigus

Andor

10

0

No problems to report

Observing asteroid (5132) Maynard. No issues. Found focus at 128600.

Stephen Gillam

None

ARC Camera

10

0

No problems to report

Microvariables.

Billy Quarles

Sierra Kunigus

Andor

9

0

No problems to report

Observing asteroid (5132) Maynard. Found focus at 127401.

Kurtis Williams

ETAMU REU

Andor

0

12

Clouds

Sky was partly cloudy at sunset with clouds forecast to thicken and a slight chance of rain, so did not open.

Billy Quarles

Jacqueline Venuto

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

I observed a Hot Jupiter. No problems to report. Used focus 126756.

Billy Quarles

David von Meyer

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

Observing binary eclipsing stars.

Kaylee Grace

Maura Kelley

CCD

6

0

No problems to report

Observed some asteroids and some Messier objects!

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

No problems. Exoplanet.

Tom Rutherford

Faith Simmons

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

No problems. Exoplanet.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

No problems. Comet 3I/ATLAS.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

6

1

Other

Scattered clouds for the first hour or so but they eventually cleared. No issues (other than one I created).

XIANMING HAN

Aidan Cain

ccd

10

0

No problems to report

star

XIANMING HAN

Aidan Cain

ccd

10

0

No problems to report

star

XIANMING HAN

Luke Evans

ccd

10

0

No problems to report

star

XIANMING HAN

Luke Evans

ccd

2.5

8

Clouds

eclipsing binaries

Robert Berrington

none

arc

0

11

Clouds

Short period variable star program. Cloudy night, and did not open as a result.

Ava Webber

Dieter Hartmann

Andor CCD

11

0

No problems to report

Clemson Blazar study

Fauerbach

NA

CCD

12

0

No problems to report

Asteroid photometry

William Keel

1 cat

Andor CCD #2

10.5

1.5

Clouds

Nebulae and galaxies. Focus 124800.

Aarran Shaw

N/A

CCD

8.5

0

No problems to report

CV candidate. Cut run short due to having to catch an early flight. Best focus found at 124700

Billy Quarles

Sierra Kunigus

Andor

0

12

Clouds

Clouds and chance of rain in the forecast. Didn't open.

Tomomi Otani

None

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Hot subdwarf photometry time series. It was a good night.

Tomomi Otani

None

CCD

6

0

No problems to report

Hot subdwarf photometry time series. It was a great night.

Robert Berrington

none

arc

3.5

6.5

Clouds

Short Period variable stars. Night was not a very good night with periodic clouds interfering with observing. Decided to call it quits at ~12AM.

Martha A. Leake

none

Andor CCD13

13

0

No problems to report

Asteroid photometry and other objects. Pointing was great, connections good, sky clear.

Xianming Han

Luke Evans, Aidan Cain

ccd

8.5

0

No problems to report

asteroid

Billy Quarles

Sierra Kunigus

Andor CCD

6

0

No problems to report

Observing asteroid 6377 Cagney. Drop out says closing but not closed when logged on. Light clouds around sunset, dissipated by 12 AM UTC. Found focus at 124800.

Billy Quarles

David von Meyer

CCD

7

3

Clouds

Observed Hot Jupiter. No problems to report.

Isaiah Cox

Dieter Hartmann

CCD

0

11

Clouds

Cloudy all night.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

0

11

Clouds

Keefe Kamp

None

CCD

0

10

Clouds

Observatory was in the cloud layer

Keefe Kamp

None

CCD

2

8

Clouds

Feild Observations around Be Star. No problems to report. Clouds rolled in 2 hours in.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

0

11

Clouds

Couldn't get connected to the VPN. Night was cloudy until around midnight so might not have mattered.

Tom Rutherford

Gary Henson

CCD

11

0

No problems to report

Exoplanet. No problems-- all went well.

Garima Rajguru

Dieter Hartmann

Andor CCD

10

0

No problems to report

Clemson Blazar Study

Robert Berrington

none

arc

0

10

Clouds

Night started clear, but clouded up just in time to start on my object. It remained cloudy the rest of the night.

Michael Fauerbach

NA

CCD

8

2

Clouds

asteroid photometry. Clouds at sunset and early in the morning, but no technical issues.

Michael Fauerbach

na

CCD

9

0.5

Software/Control PC Issues

asteroid photometry had some issues with the telescope not moving at the beginning of the night. A telescope computer reboot did the trick.

Michael Fauerbach

NA

CCD

9

0

No problems to report

asteroid photometry. Plenty of cirrus clouds and the Moon, but no technical issues to report

Ken Watanabe

Jonathan

Andor

12

0

No problems to report

Observed AGN target, everything shut, telescope parked.

William Keel

3 cats

Andor CCD #2

11

0

No problems to report

AGN-ionized clouds. Focus 127500. Pointing good. Retrieved data using Google Drive through the VPN firewall thanks to a tip from Todd Hillwig.

XIANMING HAN

none

ccd

0

11

Clouds

never opened

XIANMING HAN

Luke Evans, Aidan Cain

ccd

10.5

0

No problems to report

asteroid

XIANMING HAN

Luke, Aidan

ccd

11.5

0

No problems to report

asteroids

Xianming Han

Luke Evans, Aidan Cain

ccd

11.5

0

No problems to report

asteroids

Zach Savery

Millie Dill, Kaylee Grace

CCD

0

13

Clouds

Was cloudy all night, also had a decent chance of rain

Ava Webber

Dieter Hartmann

Andor CCD

7

4

Software/Control PC Issues

The camera did not connect to the telescope as it should have when exposures were initiated. Peter helped fix the problem, and then I was able to observe the rest of the night.

Tali Natan

None

CCD

0

11

Clouds

Trying to get photometry on B star; unable to observe due to dense cloud cover

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

0

11

Clouds

Cloudy-- never opened.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

0

11

Clouds

Clouds-- never opened.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

0

11

Clouds

Clouds-- never opened.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

6

4

Clouds

Exoplanet. No issues, but clouds came in just after midnight. Pointing still very good.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

Exoplanets. An excellent night. Target was almost dead center so the pointing issue seems to have been resolved.

Billy Quarles

None

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

TESS EBs, clear skies, good night

Todd Hillwig

None

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Pointing was good. Some high thin clouds, but all else went well.

Michael Fauerbach

NA

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

Asteroid photometry. Time on camera computer within 1sec of actual time. Pointing was good.

Todd Hillwig

None

CCD

8

0

Other

Telescope pointed about 12 arcminutes East of target. Computer time was correct (to within a second or so, as far as I could tell), so not sure what the cause was.

Robert Berrington

none

Andor

10

0

Equipment Failure

Everything worked correctly except that the pointing of the telescope was consistently off by 950 seconds. To place the object in the center of the field required an offset applied of 950 seconds. This offset meant that the object was not within the camera field of view when the telescope was pointed to the object. The telescope control computer's clack was checked to see if it was off, but it was found to ahead of the time servers by approximately 5 seconds (4.7 seconds).

Martha A. Leake

none

Andor

12

1

Software/Control PC Issues

Software limit to western sky reached by previous observer. I was able to combine tips from Tom R. and Todd H. and the manual to use the softpad to back out of the HA = 05 22 55.2 position, using the finer motions, watching the horizon map in the manual, and reaching a point (at Dec of -32 degrees) that the program allowed me to go to Zenith Park and proceed with observing. Took darks and biases, morning flats, images, and started transfer of data. Next biggest issue was pointing; it seemed like I was off an entire frame. Bill's suggestion considered. No asteroid photometry this night, but did get some observations to complement classes. Weather excellent. Reached sub arc second FWHM twice. Needed to finish up by 7:15 am, and did, although report filed at 1 pm. All disconnected at present. Zenith pa

Mariel Lares Martiz

none

0.6

9

0

Software/Control PC Issues

When attempting to park the telescope at zenith to take twilight flats, the system displayed a "Reached software W limit" error. This prevented the telescope from moving further or completing the park to the zenith position. Additionally, it did not allow me to move the telescope manually or park it at coordinates (00:00:00, +15:00:00) or stow it. The issue could not be resolved during the session.

Ken Watanabe

Jacob Kinney, Max Smuda

Andor

4

0

No problems to report

AGN target 3C 279. No issues. Dome closed and parked at requested position

Kurtis Williams

none

Andor

12

0.5

Software/Control PC Issues

white dwarf time series. Weather was good. Only technical problem was needing to abort a series due to accidentally setting the binning to 1x2. The standard recovery didn't work, so had to try the auxiliary instructions. That worked but was slow due to lag. Accidentally closed ACE while shutting down for the night. Clocks were exact on Camera computer and 1.0 s fast on telescope computer. Pointing off by 9 arcmin west. Lots of lag on camera computer.

Matt Wood

NA

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

CV Time Series. Bill's offset (RA,DEC) = (+750,30) still good. SARACAM/SARATEL clocks were wrong by +00:01:31 and -00:00:11 respectively. Synced TEL and eventually got CAM set correctly manually. Peter will look at this later today (via Discord communication).

Matt Wood

NA

CCD

10

2

Clouds

Time series of CVs. Thanks to Todd for recovery after I had ACE freeze from errant keyboard stroke.

William Keel

1 cat

Andor CCD #2

6

5

Clouds

AGN hosts. Focus 128100. Most targets found after offset +750", -30" from telescope pionting.

Henry C Sanders

N/A

ARC Camera

6

0

No problems to report

ERAU, observing to get data for EP425 Observational Astronomy class, observed four T Tauri Stars for project, no issues encountered at all, and no suggestions to be made.

Yong Sheng

Dieter Hartmann

Andor CCD griz

11

0

No problems to report

Clemson blazar study. The night went well.

Ava Webber

Dieter Hartmann

Andor CCD griz

10

0

Software/Control PC Issues

When the Bessel R filter is in wheel 1, the camera stays idle and doesn’t expose when it’s switching from wheel 2 to wheel 1

JamesASC

Kayla, Lucia, Lia, Faith

ARC Camera

5

0

Clouds

RA offset, and cloudy, but we were able to make it work and get some good data.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

5

0

No problems to report

No issues except that the scope is mispointing. The target is just out of the field of view (by a little over half a field) to the east so scope is pointing too far west by 7-8 arc minutes. Checked the system clock and it seems to be behind by about 1 minute, 20 seconds so perhaps it is a time issue and not a pointing issue.

Yong Sheng

Dieter Hartmann

Andor CCD griz

10

1

Connection Issues

During start of the night, the remote connection experienced persistent connectivity issues. The Radmin suffered frequent disconnections, accompanied by significant latency. I couldn't take any flats due to this connection issue.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

When I first logged in, the telescope was at the western pointing limit, as if the previous observer had not parked it before closing up. Telescope returned to zenith without issue. No problems the rest of the night. Exoplanets were the target for the night.

Billy Quarles

None

Andor

10

0

No problems to report

Observed TESS EBs, clear skies, excellent night.

Ken Rumstay

None

CCD camera

10.5

0

No problems to report

AGN variability. No problems, save for telescope consistently slewing to a point about ten arcminutes west of target. An excellent night, with sub-arcsecind seeing.

AST 200L

N/A

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Tracker was slightly off.

Kaylee Grace

Tali Natan, Easton Honaker, Zach Savery

CCD

12

0

Software/Control PC Issues

Imaged a bunch of Messier Objects as part of our Messier Marathon! The sequencer wasn't saving images when we first attempted to use it, but closing and reopening the window seemed to fix it. The biggest issue was that our slewing seemed to always be off by about 2 arcminutes in right ascension, meaning that many of our objects were out of frame when we were supposedly at them. There was also a moment when auto done stopped working, after turning it off and back on all was well again.

William Keel

1 cat

Andor CCD #2

9

0

No problems to report

AGN-ionized clouds. Most targets needed offsets 600" W to center. Focus 128400.

Ken Watanabe

Max Smuda, Jacob Kinney

CT

1

10

Other

Managed to take bias/ darks and opened dome fine with tracking. When taking images, it looks like the mirror cover hadn't opened even though it said it had. Closed mirror cover and dome, set to park.

Emily Cunningham

NA

-

9

0

No problems to report

-

Henry C Sanders

N/A

FLI

7

0

No problems to report

ERAU EP 425 Class, for observation project. My project is on observing T Tauri Stars. I observed CE Antliae, TW Hydrae, T Chamaeleontis and CT Chamaeleontis. I used the g filter, i filter, and Ha 6563 filter. I encountered a problem with the filter wheel but I resolved it by using the "INIT wheel" buttons and returning the wheels to their home positions with an extra step in my sequence. Other than that, conditions were good and I got some good images.

Yong Sheng

Dieter Hartmann

Andor griz

11

0

No problems to report

Clemson blazar study.

Walter Van Hamme

Samec

Andor CCD

11

0

No problems to report

Observations of Southern Contact Systems.ASASSN-V J084417.51-181959.7, ASASSN-V J134702.89-572523.8.

Walter Van Hamme

Samec

Andor Camera

12

2

Other

Observations of contact binaries. Needed MAXIM DL but could not locate it.

Tom Rutherford

Henson

CCD

6

0.5

No problems to report

Variable star, exoplanet. No problems other than the scope was mis-pointing by quite a bit. G. Henson got that taken care of and everything seems to be working well.

Martha A. Leake

Marissa Norlund

Andor CCD

12

0

No problems to report

Student training; observed clusters and nebulae, then continued with southern objects for class. All worked well, thanks to Ken's hints, Marissa's skill, good weather, and a lack of glitches. Transferring files now and will close VPN after that. Renamed the Tarantula Nebula.

Billy Quarles

None

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

Observed TESS EB, clear skies, excellent night.

Mariel Lares Martiz

none

FLI imager in the 0.6m

7

0

No problems to report

I shared the night with Dr. Otani. I started at 10pm eastern time. The observation session was conducted successfully without any incidents. Data collection proceeded as planned.

Ken Rumstay

None

CCD camera

8.5

0

No problems to report

AGN variability program. Had to cycle power to the camera computer before starting. The telescope tracking was very good, but pointing was poor. The telescope consistently slews to a point west (by as much as 10') and north of target. A good night; one arcsecond seeing.

Tomomi Otani

Keefe Kamp, Priyadashini Gokul-Dass

CCD

3

1.5

Equipment Failure

This is the report for the first half of the night (until midnight). Public outreach. The pointing was off (~about min in RA); however, the offset value was different depending on the sky. And we had trouble pointing to the object.

James

AST 200 Lab

ARC Camera

4

0

Connection Issues

Observing AST 200L

Walter Van Hamme

Samec

ANDOR Camera

8

0

No problems to report

Observations of interacting Binaries, ASASS084417, ASASS1347.

Walter van Hamme

Samec

ANDOR

8

0

No problems to report

Observations of interacting Binaries, ASASS084417, ASASS1347.

Kaylee Grace

Millie Dill, Zach Savery

CCD

9

0

Software/Control PC Issues

When we initially logged on, the Camera Computer wasn't responding. After a restart through the ACE Switch Rack, it was working fine, no further issues with that. The telescope was not tracking very well, it was moving slightly south in Dec over the course of the night, but not so fast that we couldn't correct for it. We imaged a helium atmosphere white dwarf.

William Keel

2 cats

Andor CCD #2

9

0

No problems to report

Camera PC was unreachable in afternoon - rebooted and restarted software. Late in night, telescope tracking started to wander, very slowly writing in cursive on the sky. For last 3 targets (2hr E - 2hr W, dec -26 to -37) no more than half of 5-minute exposures were untrailed. Got "FAULTY ABSOLUTE DEC ENCODER" message when parking telescope at +30.

Aaran Shaw

N/A

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Perfect conditions, observed a radio-selected X-ray binary candidate all night

James

AST200L Students

ARC Camera

5

0

No problems to report

AST200L Class Observing

Berrington

none

arc

10

0

No problems to report

Short-Period Variable stars. Other than the guide camera not working, it was a good, clear and productive night.

Kaylee Grace

Zach Savery, Millie Dill

CCD

11

0

No problems to report

Observed a pulsating star. Telescope computer was a bit laggy, but no large issues. Clear night!

James

Roper, Sandrini

ARC Camera

5

0

No problems to report

All was fine

Kaylee Grace

Zach Savery

CCD

0

10

Other

Unfortunately our target object is just too close to the almost full moon. Every now and then we could get one or two good images, but between the moon and this one bank of clouds overhead, we called it. Beautiful night on the webcams! Not so much through the CCD.

Kurtis Williams

Emily Cunningham

Andor

8

0

No problems to report

Time series photometry of white dwarfs. Excellent night, no problems.

Ava Webber

Dieter Hartmann

Andor griz

8

0

No problems to report

Clemson Blazar Study

Tomomi Otani

Erin Abraham, Keefe Kamp

CCD

6

0

No problems to report

Hubbard James

AST-200L class

arc camera

5

0

Software/Control PC Issues

guiding appeared to be off.

Aarran Shaw

N/A

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Observing a bright radio-selected XRB candidate

Robert Berrington

none

arc

8

0

Other

Upon connecting to the telescope control computer, I immediately noticed that it must have been that the prior observer forgot to park the telescope. I found the telescope over at ~+6 hrs stopped at the west limit. I promptly backed off using the ACEpad and immediately moved to zenith. While this did not cause any time loss, It was clear that the prior observer did not finalize the night correctly.

Antonio

Dieter

CT

8

0

No problems to report

Observed 4FGL J0303, 4FGL J0533, SDS J122101 and monitored the variability of 4FGL J0719

Kaylee Grace

Zach Savery

CCD

9.5

0

Software/Control PC Issues

The telescope computer is running pretty laggy. No crashes or anything, just took quite a bit to respond to clicks. It was a beautiful night! Observing a WD, and saw the comet in the webcams thanks to Bill!

Kurtis Williams

Olive (feline)

Andor

9

0

No problems to report

Night from VSU; excellent weather, subarcsec seeing(!) if Maxim FWHM is correct. Time series photometry in Luminance 5 filter. Time.is suggests computer clock is off by 4.4 sec. Lots of lag all night.

Walter Van Hamme

Samec

ANDOR Camera

9

0

No problems to report

Observations of interesting contact systems, BC Eri, ASASSN1347-57,

Walter VanHamme

Samec

ANDOR camera

9

0

No problems to report

Observations of interesting contact systems, BC Eri, ASASSN1347-57,

Robert Berrington

nonw

arc

7

0

No problems to report

no problems.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

5

0

No problems to report

Mp problems. Exoplanet.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Exoplanet. No problems!

Kaylee Grace

Millie Dill, Zach Savery

CCD

9

0

No problems to report

Observed a pulsating white dwarf. Beautiful weather, no problems to report.

Kaylee Grace

Millie Dill, Zach Savery

CCD

9

0

Software/Control PC Issues

Telescope computer appeared to have turned off/was unresponsive between closing last night and attempting to connect today. A restart from the switch rack fixed it, and we had no more issues. Observed a pulsating white dwarf.

Kaylee Grace

Millie Dill, Zach Savery

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Our object rose early in the night so we stopped observations ~90 minutes earlier than we probably could have gone. All was well! No problems to report.

Ava Webber

Dieter Hartmann

Andor griz

6

0

No problems to report

Clemson Blazar study

Ava Webber

Dieter Hartmann

Andor griz

6

0

No problems to report

Clemson Blazer study

Robert Berrington

none

arc

7

0

Equipment Failure

Guide camera appears to be producing images, but the light from the telescope is not making it to the camera. I do not know if this is known, but at time of twilight flats, I took a guide camera image and minimal light was making it to the camera even just prior to sunset.

Walter Van Hamme

Samec

Andor Camera

8

0

No problems to report

Observing and analyzing interesting contact binaries.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Exoplanets. No problems.

Garima Rajguru

Dieter Hartmann

ANDOR CCD griz

9

0

No problems to report

Clemson Blazar Study

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Exoplanets. No problems.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Exoplanet. No problems.

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

0

8

Connection Issues

Could not connect to the CCD computer-- tried several times. Tried resetting the outlets, through the observatory computer, as well but that did not help.

Ava Webber

Dieter Hartmann

Andor griz

9

0

No problems to report

Clemson Blazar study

Tomomi Otani

None

CCD

6

0

No problems to report

subdwarf B photometry time series

Tomomi Otani

None

CCD

6

0

No problems to report

sdB photometry time series.

William Keel

Sam Grunblatt, AY203, 1 cat

Andor CCD #2

8.5

0

No problems to report

Class project, AGN hosts. Focus 127700. Telescope positions pretty far off; typical offsets to target (-920", -150")

William Keel

San Grunblatt, AY203 students, 2 cats

Andor CCD #2

8

0

No problems to report

Class project data, AGN hosts. Focus 126700. Pointing pretty far off - typical offsets needed to center target after slew were (-800", -250").

Yong Sheng

Dieter Hartmann

CCD griz

9

0

No problems to report

Clemson University blazar study

Kaylee Grace

Millie Dill, Zach Savery

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

Observed WD 0420-478. No problems to report! Was a clear night with no connection issues.

Millie D.

Kaylee G. and Zachary S.

Andor CCD

10

0

Connection Issues

Observing white dwarf W 0420-478. Issues: telescope computer kept disconnecting and then would freeze. Ra and Dec were only visible, hit esc and it went away. However, it would still freeze so it would take a while for it to go to original format.

Millie D.

Kaylee G., Zachary S.

Andor CCD

10

0

No problems to report

Observing white dwarf WD 0420-478

William Keel

2 cats

Andor CCD #2

8.5

0

No problems to report

AGN hosts, H II regions. Focus 127700.

William Keel

Dean Townsley, AY203 class

Andor CCD #2

8.5

0

No problems to report

Class projects. Focus 127200. There are still low-airmass regions of the sky where 5-minute exposures trail in changing directions.

William Keel

Sam Grunblatt, AY203 class

Andor CCD #2

8.5

0

No problems to report

Class objects, AGN hosts. Focus 128500.

Isaiah Cox

Dieter Hartmann

CCD

9

0

No problems to report

Clemson blazars

Yong Sheng

Dieter Hartamann

Andor CCD griz

9

0

No problems to report

Clemson blazar study

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

6

1

Connection Issues

Exoplanet. Had trouble connecting to the camera computer at first-- G. Henson was able to get that sorted out and all worked well from then on out.

William Keel

Sam Grunblatt, AY203 class

Andor CCD #2

8.5

0

No problems to report

Class project images - planets, stars, nebulae, clusters, galaxies. Focus 128500. Tracking accuracy varies wildly around the sky - longest exposures with round images range from 2-10 minutes depending on location.

Martha A. Leake

none

Andor CCD

9.5

0

No problems to report

I didn't have any takers for Nov. 8, so I used it for imaging galaxies, nearby stars, hoping to use those in class.. Weather great. Typical offset to south and west.

Berrington

none

arc

7.5

0

No problems to report

Telescope functioned properly except for one issue that did not stop observations. That is the connection issue with the guider.

Walter Van Hamme

Samec

ARC Camera

9

0

No problems to report

Observations of WW Phe Light curve.

Antonio Circiello

Dieter Hartmann

SARA CT

9

0

No problems to report

observed the following sources: 220100-300000, RBS 0097, 4FGL J0250.3-2422, BZQ J0324-2918, 4FGL J0501.0-2423.

Kurtis Williams

none

Andor

0

11

Other

Observer was traveling to ETSU and forgot to put the night up for general use.

Walter Van Hamme

Samec

ANDOR Camera

10

0

No problems to report

Observations of WW Phe.

Walter VanHamme

SWamec

ANDOR Camers

9

null

No problems to report

Light curve Observations of WW Phe.

Martha A. Leake

none

Andor

11

0

No problems to report

Asteroid light curve and southern objects. Wonderful night. Noted objects 4-5 arcminutes south of center of frame.

Catalina Ávalos-Vega

-

CCD

7

null

No problems to report

Transit observed from 04:00 to 09:00 UT. Focus: 129551, and exposure time of 180s. No problems to report.

Stephen Gillam

Jadia Ewing

Nador

7

0

Other

Pointing was off about 8 arcminutes in the west direction

Stephen Gillam

Jadia Ewing

Nador

7

0

Other

Pointing was off about 8 arcminutes in the west direction

Tom Rutherford

None

CCD

9

0

No problems to report

Exoplanet. No problems at all-- everything worked well.

Michael Fauerbach

NA

CCD

8

1

Clouds

focus on Trojan asteroid 317. Full Moon and clouds were not ideal and clouds got thick for a while in the middle of the night. Camera computer is 17seconds fast and I was unable to correct this. Pointing was off in both RA and DEC -object outside the FOV of telescope.

William Keel

Sam Grunblatt, Astro 203 class

Andor CD #2

6

0

No problems to report

Class targets and operations demo. Focus 128100. Typical offset to center target after telescope slew was (-740",-300"). Pleased to find that HA limit for LMC is greater than 6 hours.