SARA 

Keefe Kamp

ERAU

Clark

Spectrograph

2

0

No problems to report

Public Outreach. Spectrographic observations. No problems to report.

Todd Hillwig

Valparaiso University

None.

ARC CCD

0

12

Clouds

Cloudy for at least the first half of the night. Suffering from a bad cold and having classes the following morning, I opted to not stay up to see if it eventually cleared.

Gary Henson

ETSU

none

Spectrograph

0

9

Clouds

Never Opened, high level thin to thick clouds streaming over all night with bright moon.

Todd Vaccaro

Ball State University

n/a

ARC

5

4

Clouds

eclipsing binaries and T Cr Br monitoring; no problems.

William Keel

University of Alabama

3 cats

ARC CCD

7

2

Software/Control PC Issues

Previous problem with guide camera disconnecting on starting any exposure persists even after cycling power on QSI camera via telescope outlets on APC switch rack. (When I did that, focus also jumped by -10,000 units; caught it later slipping quickly by another 4000). Thanks to Gary for pointing out I restarted SAOimage in the wrong order for current setup when restarting. Switched to edges of my AGN program which could be done stacking 5-minute exposures.

Martha A. Leake

Valdosta State University

none

CCD

0

8

Humidity

Clouds, high humidity, chance of precipitation 70%, current closure of the domes, possible snow. These predictions are forecast to last until about 2 am, but the humidity may remain high and the domes will be dripping.I will not be observing this Jan 24/25 and am filing my report now (7 MST Jan 24).

Kurtis Williams

ETAMU

none

ARC

0

12

Clouds

Did not open due to forecasted clouds for entire night

Ken Watanabe

Florida Gulf Coast University

Jonathan Zielinski

CCD

0

8

Clouds

Unable to observe due to clouds and rain.

Kurtis Williams

ETAMU

Breadstick (feline)

ARC

11

0

Other

White dwarf time series photometry. Problem logging on traced to human error. On Discord I said it was VPN but later found it was an incorrect port. Guide camera stopped with "Guider Error" in Maxim ~4 hr into night; Maxim lost connection. Disconnected and reconnected multiple times; guider would reconnect but fail the instant an image was requested. Since guider was not crucial I went ahead without. Breadstick was a terrible observing assistant. She vociferously warned me when it was time for night lunch but did not tell me about changing focus issues. No treats for her.

William Keel

University of Alabama

3 cats

ARC CCD

11

0

No problems to report

AGN-ionized clouds. Had to switch guider x,y speed settings from 1,-1 to 1,1 for proper guiding. Focus 312000, guider focus 29000. At the start of the night, best-focus images were seasonally appropriate snowman figures, but after a couple of hours and moving the telescope far to the south, they improved. Tried solar-system rates for one object; it took almost 15 minutes to catch up to the input rates (usually takes 5 for sidereal rate on a new target).

Yong Sheng

Clemson University

Oscar Conley, Dieter Hartmann

Andor CCD UBVRI

10

0

No problems to report

Clemson student observation training.

Todd Vaccaro

Ball State University

n/a

ARC

10.5

0

No problems to report

EB and novae. No issues.