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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
02/25/2025
William Keel
University of Alabama
3 cats
ARC CCD
8
1
Software/Control PC Issues
AGN-ionized clouds. Focus 504700, guider focus 32550. Weird event: started 60m exposure. Looked in later, noticed that the wrong filter was in place. On closer inspection, it had been running shorter exposures in the filter sequence in the sequence tab (though I clicked on the ACE Simple button). Restarted exposure - then countdown clock was running at something like 10x clock speed. I unchecked all lines in the sequence tab and things returned to normal.
02/25/2025
Emily Cunningham
Texas A&M University - Commerce
None
-
11
0
No problems to report
NA
02/22/2025
Aarran Shaw
Butler
N/A
CCD
7.5
0
No problems to report
Great night, my first good night at KP in a while. Observed an intermediate polar.
02/21/2025
Ken Rumstay
VSU (Emeritus)
None
CCD camera
10.5
0.3
Other
AGN variability program. Telescope pointing and tracking very good. When I started to take evening flat field frames I discovered that light was not reaching the CCD camera. Following Keefe Kamp's (email message of February 16th) I suspected that the spectrograph arm was blocking the beam. Recycling power to the spectrograph remedied the problem.
02/14/2025
Gary Henson
ETSU
Rutherford
CCD & Spectrograph
0
10
Humidity
High humidity, rain and snow threat for night.
02/13/2025
Gary Henson
ETSU
Rutherford
CCD & Spectrograph
0
10
Clouds
Heavy cloud cover all night.
02/12/2025
Gary Henson
ETSU
none
CCD & Spectrograph
0
10
Clouds
Not scheduled for the night, but tracking weather for the week and night would be lost to clouds anyway.
02/10/2025
Gary Henson
ETSU
Rutherford
CCD & Spectrograph
8
2
Clouds
No problems to report, some intermediate cirrus clouds with bright moon first couple hours then mostly clear skies.
02/08/2025
Todd Vaccaro
Ball State University
na
ARC
10
0
No problems to report
Lots of high thin clouds all night with an hour here and there mostly clear, but was still able to get a couple eclipses in.
02/07/2025
William Keel
University of Alabama
3 cats
ARC CCD
9.5
0
No problems to report
H II regions. Focus 500500, guider focus 32800. Seeing was good, so focus needed frequent tweaking to take advantage. Still see vignetting on W side; did an exI\posure sequence with dome tracking off as a test.
02/06/2025
James
Agnes Scott
Roper
ARC Camera
0
8
Equipment Failure
ARC camera failure
02/06/2025
Matt Wood
ETAMU
NA
CCD
13
0
Equipment Failure
Time series of CVs. Thank you to Kurtis Williams for reminding me the procedure for getting the auto guider working, and to Bill Keel for posting the starting focus value of ~31000 for focus for that. Problem: The x-stage does not seem to be moving at all. Every position gives the same field. I was fortunate to have a star in the position it is at, but pointed away from the galactic plane it could be an issue. Overall an excellent night.
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