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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
03/06/2023
Gary Henson
ETSU
none
Spectrograph
0
8
Clouds
Cloudy all night, some rain in the morning. Mountain closed to observing all night.
03/04/2023
Amy Lovell
Agnes Scott College
AST200L students
CCD
7
0
No problems to report
student imaging projects, steady focus, great night
03/03/2023
Priya Gokuldass
Florida Tech
None
CCD
3
6
Clouds
ULGRB host galaxies observation.
03/02/2023
Vero Petit
University of Delaware
Judi Provencal, students
spectrograph
0
n/a
Humidity
Did not open, the humidity was high. We used the opportunity to show students how to use the spectrograph.
03/01/2023
Martha Leake
Valdosta State University
Tools class til 10 pm
CCD
0
9
Wind
Not opening tonight. Winds up to 66 mph, humidity at 100%, blowing snow in weather predictions and domes now closed because of threatening clouds. We will not attempt to open or connect. Thursday looks similar on KPNO/Sells predictions (20% chance of more snow showers before 9 am). Leaving campus (9:15 MST).
02/28/2023
Gary Henson
ETSU
Rutherford
Andor CCD
0
8
Clouds
Exoplanet transit light curve. CCD cooler functioning, no equipment problems but clouds increasing at sunset and didn't clear until last few hours of night after transit ended.
02/28/2023
Todd Vaccaro
Ball State University
none
Arc CCD
0
10
Equipment Failure
Wrote off the night when I never got a response about the cooler. The fix by Brian late that night did not get through in the thread of emails, so I was never aware in time that the cooler of the ccd had been turned back on. Only after Bob Berrington forwarded an email to my gmail account did I see that it was turned back on.
02/26/2023
Robert Berrington
Ball State University
none
arc
0
12
Equipment Failure
The CCD camera appears to have warmed to 13 C despite the set point for the cooler being set to -110 C. All breakers on the switches are set as expected, but the camera was showing a strong gradient in the bias frames that ranged from ~2000 at low row numbers to 65535 (saturated) at 1500+ row numbers. This of course rendered the camera useless. I did not open because of the nonfunctional camera.
02/24/2023
Tomomi Otani
ERAU
Erin Abraham
CCD
0
8
Equipment Failure
Public Outreach. We noticed that the camera cooler is not working. We reboot the systems but it did not help. Weather is not good anyway so we ended the observation.
02/23/2023
Kurtis Williams
TAMUC
Fangyi Zhu
ARC
0
11
Snow
Didn't open dome due to ice
02/20/2023
William Keel
University of Alabama
2 cats
ARC CCD
0
10
Clouds
I had in mind looking at clouds around distant AGN rather than quite so locally.
02/19/2023
Xianming Han
Butler Univ
none
CCD
0
10
Clouds
did not open
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