SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Observed	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
09/20/2026	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	Andor CCD	4	0	No problems to report	M31, NGC 7331. No problems.
09/19/2026	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	Andor CCD	6	0	No problems to report	M31, GSC 03308-00462. No real problems, although the telescope did stop tracking a couple of times when first getting started but worked fine the rest of the night after that.
09/17/2026	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	ccd	4	0	No problems to report	Loss of tracking pointing west at 40deg altitude.
09/16/2026	Ken Watanabe	Florida Gulf Coast University	Evelyn, Jonathan	CCD	7	1	Software/Control PC Issues	At the beginning, when taking flats, camera images came out completely white despite Sun being down. Quick reset resolved this issue. Dome home was closed and powered off, mirror cover was closed, and night light is on.
09/15/2026	William Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	Andor CCD	10.5	0	No problems to report	AGN-ionized clouds. Focus 100482, guide focus 0. 2 instances of connector client on CAM (only) hanging when deselecting SAOimage display for QSI camera after locating guide srar.
09/14/2026	Kaylee Grace	UD	Evelyn Palmer, Zach Savery	CCD	3	2	Other	Observed a PG1159 star. The telescope hit a limit at +2.5 HA which cut our night short.
09/13/2026	Kaylee Grace	UD	Zach Savery, Evelyn Palmer, Ben Kaiser	N/A	0	8	Other	Dusty and windy on and off all night. Didn't open as the gaps would've been worse for our data than not taking it at all.
09/12/2026	Kaylee Grace	UD	Zach Savery, Caitlyn Mattison	N/A	0	8	Other	Dust was over the limit as soon as we opened to prep for flats. After closing it rose above 50 mug/m3 so that's the night!
09/07/2026	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	ccd	3	6	Other	Closed early as dust was rising above 50mug/m3 in WHT and INT sensors. Sloan-r2 filter, QSI focus 970, focus 101385.
09/07/2026	Aarran Shaw	Butler University	N/A	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	Dust was reported on NOT weather page but all other telescopes were open so I chose to open too. CV time-series. Very minor loss of tracking at HA=0 but quickly fixed, only lost about 5 mins of observing time.
09/06/2026	William Keel	University of Alabama	DragonCon Live Astronomy	Andor CCD	3	0	No problems to report	Outreach targets. Focus 100600. Autoguider not running QSI camera, too little time for power cycle to try fixing it.
09/06/2026	Billy Quarles	ETAMU	Kody Walker, Jarrod Bieber	CCD	7	0	No problems to report	Observed TESS EBs. Found focus at 100252. Closed mirrors and dome; left PDU window open for next observer (Keel), but turned off dome shutter door.