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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
06/19/2024
Kaylee Grace
University of Delaware/MCAO
Easton Honaker, Millie Dill, Tali Natan, Ben Mayhew, Zach Savery
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Observed a hot Helium atmosphere WD. The filter wheel is quite dusty (at least the Bessel V that we used) and a cleaning of it the next time someone's at KP would be much appreciated. No issues other than that!
06/15/2024
Martha A. Leake
Valdosta State University
none
ARC CCD
8.3
0
No problems to report
Observed asteroid Heard and M57. Weather clear without smoke or dust. Noted pointing still to west slightly, but was able to find the subject in a busy field. According to WIYN data, seeing was 1 arc second, at least in second half. Used SkyView VIrtual Observatory and JPL Horizons Web to find and track asteroid.
06/14/2024
William
University of Alabama
3 cats
ARC CCD
7
0.5
Equipment Failure
AGN with extended emission clouds. Focus 507000, guide focus 0. Guide camera disconnected soon after local midnight and I never did get it to reconnect with MaxIm. (I did not try the power cycling that has sometimes been needed before, because that also warms up the CCD and takes ~1 hour out of the night)
06/13/2024
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
None
CCD
6
2
Clouds
Hot Subdwarf photometry time series. No issue occurred.
06/13/2024
Oswalt
ERAU
Boyer, Reynolds, Curtis, McGinley
Andor Camera
5
5
Clouds
Smoke or dust contributed to problems.
06/11/2024
Sherman Losey
TAMUC
Fardowsa Abdulle, Kurtis Williams
ARC Camera
6
0
No problems to report
White Dwarf photometry Good weather and no problems.
06/07/2024
Todd Vaccaro
Ball State University
N/A
ARC CCD
8
0
No problems to report
No real problems, but lost focus at end and never seemed to recover as good as it was. Best focus was around 2", seeing should've been at least that good. Eclipse timing in B and V with some early data on recurring nova T CrB pre outburst.
06/05/2024
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
Leah Shafer, Hunter Wood
ARC CCD
6
0
No problems to report
Finished a little early...morning drive down to Tucson for our flight out.
06/04/2024
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
Hunter Wood, Leah Shafer
ARC CCD
8
0
Software/Control PC Issues
Focus was still at non-physically high values. Ran to zero and reset. No focus problems after that.
06/03/2024
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
Leah Shafer, Hunter Wood
ARC CCD
8
0
Software/Control PC Issues
The focus values ran away positive, eventually stopping at an encoder reading of 1269999. However, the actual telescope focus did not appear to change at all. Since the focus was good and we did not know what would happen if we attempted to change it, we did not do so.
06/02/2024
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
Hunter Wood, Leah Shafer
ARC CCD
10
0
No problems to report
On site observing. No issues.
06/01/2024
Xianming Han
Butler University
none
CCD
8.5
0
No problems to report
eclipsing binary. The network for Kitt Peak is perfect today.
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