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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
12/28/2021
Van Hamme/Samec
FIU
none
Andor CCD
0
10
Clouds
Winter Storm activity, never opened.
12/27/2021
Van Hamme/Samec
FIU
none
Andor CCD
0
10
Humidity
Early Clouds, High Humidity, High Winds, mountain remained closed all night with touch and go weather.
12/26/2021
Gary Henson
ETSU
none
Spectrograph
0
8
Clouds
Partly Cloudy skies most of night, no ACE backup with poor weather forecast so didn't open.
12/25/2021
Gary Henson
ETSU
none
none
0
0
Other
Observatory Holiday Closure
12/24/2021
Gary Henson
ETSU
none
none
0
0
Other
Observatory Holiday Closure
12/23/2021
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
0
4
Equipment Failure
Shutter appears to still be an issue-- all images looked like biases.
12/22/2021
William Keel
University of Alabama
1 cat part-time
ARC CCD
0
13
Equipment Failure
Tried test images at sunset; only got bias pattern. Checked filter wheels, spectrograph pickoff, dome position, all OK. Brian Brondel connected and did a bunch of wizard incantations, and concluded the CCD shutter has probably failed. ACE will take a spare to the mountain tomorrow.
12/19/2021
Kyle Pellegrin
Clemson University
none
ARC CCD
7
0
No problems to report
Monitoring starburst galaxies.
12/18/2021
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
5
0
No problems to report
M31. No real problems except that filter wheel #1 would hang on "moving,' during filter changes, although initializing it seemed make it work.
12/14/2021
Stephen Gillam
ERAU
None
Andor Camera
1
9
Wind
ROAp stars
12/14/2021
Stephen Gillam
ERAU
None
Andor Camera
1
9
Clouds
ROAp stars.
12/12/2021
Gary Henson
ETSU
none
spectrograph and ccd
8
0
No problems to report
Spectroscopy of Massive Magnetic Stars & M31 Nova Monitoring Track Rate: 15.060, +0.012
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