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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
04/19/2023
Ken Rumstay
VSU (Emeritus)
None
CCD camera
8
0
No problems to report
AGN observations. Everything worked find until the end, when I tried to observe 3C-390.3, which was near the NCP (HA ~ -4 hours, Dec. = +79 degrees). No stars appeared in the image. I suspect the dome may not have been aligned with the telescope, but it was pretty cloudy towards the north at that time.
04/18/2023
Kurtis Williams
TAMUC
Fangyi Zhu
ARC camera
5
0
No problems to report
White dwarf time series photometry; First training night for Zhu. No problems.
04/17/2023
Matt A Wood
Texas A&M University-Commerce
NA
CCD
11
0
Other
Time series observations of cataclysmic variables. A good night and nice to be "back in the saddle". The only issue was that getting a focus was tedious. I eventually ran to zero and reset the encoder, so my best focus at end of night at 50F/10C was 395000 through the "IR Blocking" filter.
04/15/2023
Xianming Han
Butler Univ
none
CCD
10
0.2
Equipment Failure
eclipsing binary filter wheel stuck
04/14/2023
Xianming Han
Butler Univ
none
CCD
10
0.2
Equipment Failure
eclipsing binary filter wheel stuck
04/13/2023
Xianming Han
Butler Univ
none
CCD
9
1
Equipment Failure
eclipsing binary filter wheel stuck
04/09/2023
Stephen Gillam
ERAU
Jacob Romero, Rhiannon Hicks, Stephen Barnier, Avery Reynolds.
ARC Camera
5
7
Clouds
Micro-variables. At one point, the focus position changed on its own. I had command it to the saved position and stop this command in order to get the spurious motion to stop.
04/07/2023
Michael Fauerbach
FGCU
NA
CCD
8
0
No problems to report
if you change the filters make sure the wheel goes to the correct position. Had it twice go to a different position in the wheel. Else no issues to report.
04/06/2023
Amy Lovell
Agnes Scott College
Oralyn, Yazmin, Daniela, AST200L
ccd
6
0
No problems to report
cluster and eclipsing binary imaging for student projects, a few clouds early on...
04/05/2023
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
8
0
No problems to report
Exoplanet Transit
03/31/2023
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
None
CCD
6
3
Software/Control PC Issues
Hot subdwarf photometry time series. Both ACE and ACE connect suddenly closed 5 times (both closed simultaneously). They closed when I was not touching anything at least 2 times, but I noticed that they also close when I clicked the "StellaCam 3" tab on "Auxiliary Instruments". The filter wheel did not work well and the camera position moved between two filters at one point. It was fixed when I initialized the filters.
03/30/2023
Amy Lovell
Agnes Scott
AST200L
CCD
.4
8
Clouds
student projects, clouds rolled in early
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