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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
01/30/2024
Todd Vaccaro
Ball State University
N/A
ARC
0
12
Clouds
Eb's, but high clouds all night with bright moon, so never opened.
01/27/2024
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
Erin Abraham, Adrian Moraga
CCD
1
7
Humidity
Public Outreach Focus was off. We only spent one hour before we closed the dome due to high humidity so we could not find the right focus.
01/25/2024
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
0
8
Humidity
High humidity-- never opened.
01/23/2024
Gary Henson
ETSU
Rutherford
Spectrograph & CCD
0
9
Humidity
High Humidity, threatening clouds/rain, Never Opened.
01/22/2024
Yong Sheng
Clemson University
Dieter Hartmann
Andor griz
0
11
Humidity
Very cloudy and humidity was too high to open the dome.
01/21/2024
Gary D Henson
ETSU
Rutherford
Spectrograph & CCD
0
9
Humidity
High Humidity, threatening clouds/rain, Never Opened.
01/20/2024
Martha A. Leake
Valdosta State University
none
ARC
0
12
Clouds
Asteroid photometry. Cloudy, with showers likely later. 100% cloud cover falling to 90, from 10-11, and 70-60% from 1-3. Never opened. Operations and set up had no problems.
01/18/2024
Kaylee Grace
University of Delaware/MCAO
Tali Natan, Patrick Stanley, Millie Dill, Zach Savery
Spectrograph
8
0
No problems to report
First time attempting the use the spectrograph. Couldn't line up our objects on the fiber, likely due to our own inexperience. Clear night, but no data taken other than some calibration frames.
01/20/2024
Todd Vaccaro
Ball State University
N/A
ARC
0
12
Clouds
Too cloudy to open.
01/15/2024
William Keel
University of Alabama
3 cats
ARC CCD
11
0
No problems to report
AGN-ionized clouds. At start, focus readout was 1194394 and drifting upward (out of range so could not do focus jogs). Rezeroed focus position and encoder, and focus was 463000. Guider focus close to 0.
01/13/2024
Todd Vaccaro
Ball State University
n/a
ARC
12.5
0
No problems to report
eclipsing binaries in BVR. Some high thin clouds during the middle of the night for couple hours, but not too bad.
01/08/2024
Stephen Gillam
ERAU
Divyeshwari Vansadia
ARC Camere
12
0
No problems to report
Micro-variables in open clusters. The weather stations available (WIYN 2.1-m etc.) don't work reliably. The SARA 0.9-m weather station doesn't work at all.
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