SARA 

Steve Gillam

ERAU Retired

Martina Dequer and Desiree Robinson

Andor Camera

7

0

Equipment Failure

ROAp stars in Open Clusters. Twice the telescope pointing jumped unbidden by about 1 arc. minute in declination. The telescope stooped tracking at HA~1.5 hrs with no error reported. Slewing to the target again got the tracking going.

Tom Rutherford

ETSU

Asher Suter

CCD

8

No problems to report

Exoplanet, M31, M57, M27, a couple NGC targets. No problems, although when I first logged on, the mirror cover was hung on “opening.’ A recycle of everything cleared it and all worked OK after that. Closed everything up, cut power to the shutter, and parked the dome at 235.

Billy Quarles

ETAMU

Caysen Mayo

CCD

4.5

0.5

Software/Control PC Issues

Asteroid, had to fully restart twice. The first time was because the filter wheel wouldn't select the correct filter. Then during last the 30 minutes of observation, tracking was lost and and the telescope refused to park with the error, "Unable to complete slow due to an equipment error". After the second reboot, dome was closed and parked at 235 degrees.

Kurtis Williams

ETAMU

Raven Powers

Andor

5.5

1.5

Software/Control PC Issues

Observing rotating white dwarf. ACE crashed after a couple hours so I went through restarting procedure and was able to begin observing again. Then tracking failed and telescope would not slew. Closed everything and rebooted again and got everything working properly but it was close to sunrise at this point so that ended the night.

Aarran Shaw

Butler U

None

Andor

7

0

Equipment Failure

CV candidate observing program. Best focus at 100800 and guider at -70 (although couldn't get guider to actually guide). Had a loss of tracking for my first source at HA 02:25, but ACE cabinet reset fixed it and I moved on to second source.

Yong Sheng

Clemson University

Dieter Hartmann

Andor CCD griz

8

0

Software/Control PC Issues

Clemson blazar study. The dome was closed and parked at 235 degrees at the end of the night. The dome power was switched off and the dome light was switched on. After clicking the dome close button, the dome begins closing normally. However, before it finishes closing, it switches back to opening mode, so the dome never fully closes. I resolved the issue by performing a full restart of the telescope system.

Todd Vaccaro

Ball State University

n/a

Andor

7.5

.5

Equipment Failure

EB and novae BVR photometry. Early in the eve when I went to jog the position an arc min or two the tele stopped tracking and it required a full restart. Later, when the dome reached 0 AZ it stopped tracking and I had to unlink dome, park dome, and relink dome to get it to track again. Then at hour angle 3 the tele tracking stopped as it has typically done. Another target I tracked to about 3 HA and decided to stop for the night before it required another full system restart again. I made sure to shut the dome shutter off once things indicated they were closed.

Tom Rutherford

ETSU

None

CCD

0

8

Wind

Wind kept pushing the closing limits so I never did open.

Tom Rutherford

ETSU

None

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

Exoplanet Transit, M31. No problems.

Michael Fauerbach

FGCU

NA

CCD

7

0.5

Software/Control PC Issues

The Telescope PC rebooted in the middle of the run. Maybe there was an update scheduled? I did not see anything on the screen and the camera PC did not reboot. Due to the Full Moon, I worked on some pretty pictures for class projects instead of asteroid photometry.

Yong Sheng

Clemson University

Dieter Hartmann

Andor CCD griz

8

0

No problems to report

Clemson blazar study. The dome was closed and parked at 235 degrees at the end of the night. The dome power was switched off and the dome light was switched on.

Roi Alonso

IAC

none

CCD

4

4

Humidity

Closed due to humidity.