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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
04/24/2025
Ken Watanabe
FGCU
Jacob Kinney, Max Smuda
Leach
3
4
Other
Dome had to be closed due to dust halfway through night
04/21/2025
Nayra Rodríguez Eugenio
IAC
none
ARC CCD
5
0
No problems to report
Student research projects on exoplanet transit and SN follow-up, 2nd half night.
04/21/2025
Ken Rumstay
VSU (Emeritus)
None
CCD camera
8.5
0
No problems to report
AGN variability program
04/20/2025
Billy Quarles
East Texas A&M University
None
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
TESS eclipsing binaries, clear skies, good night
04/19/2025
Billy Quarles
East Texas A&M University
None
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
TESS EBs, a little hazy, otherwise good night
04/18/2025
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
None
CCD
0
10
Clouds
Domes closed due to threatening clouds, and overcast skies forecast for the remainder of the night, so giving up early.
04/16/2025
James Webb
Florida International University
none
CCD
2
0
No problems to report
Blazars monitoring
04/15/2025
Gary D Henson
ETSU
Rutherford
Arc CCD and Spectrograph
4
5
Wind
Mountain shut down for high winds from about 10 pm to 2:30 am MST.
04/14/2025
Todd Vaccaro
Ball State University
n/a
ARC
4.5
4
Clouds
Eclipsing binary in Bessel BVR captured an eclipse with a late opening of the dome when the mountain opened domes around midnight MST, but clouds plagued sunrise and no flats were obtained. Telescope was found parked at zenith (not the stowed position).
04/11/2025
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
9
0
No problems to report
Exoplanets. No problems.
04/09/2025
Tali Natan
University of Delaware
Easton Honaker, Kaylee Grace, Patrick Stanley, Millie Dill, Zach Savery
ASCOM
10
0
Other
Spectra of bet CMi and T CrB - pointing was off by about 7' in Dec
04/05/2025
Todd Vaccaro
Ball State University
n/a
ARC
5
3
Clouds
EB program. R flats had a strange arcing shadow in bottom left (posted image in Discord kp channel) but didn't see the same thing in B or V, so I avoided R data for the night. Possible issue with first quarter moon near zenith where I was taking them? Clouds middle of night shut down mountain for a few hours.
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