SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Observed	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
10/29/2025	Ava Webber	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	Andor CCD griz	2	8	Humidity	Clemson blazar study. A lot of time was lost due to humidity. The dome was parked to 235 degrees at the end of the night.
10/28/2025	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	0	10	Humidity	High humidity all night-- never opened.
10/26/2025	Robert Berrington	Ball State University	none	arc	0	10	Clouds	Clouds and high humidity prevented opening the dome. So we did not open for the night.
10/25/2025	Patrick Stanley	University of Delaware	Jarrod Bieber	CCD	10	0	No problems to report	Wet observing run. Fixed the issue with the mirror cover gui always showing opening by resetting ACE. However the DIO96 diagnostic still does not look correct.
10/24/2025	Angel Strobach	University of Delaware	Caitlyn Mattison, Kaylee Grace, Patrick Stanley	SARA RM Telescope	12	0	No problems to report	Dome was vignetting after being unlinked and parked for the night
10/22/2025	Patrick Stanley	University of Delaware	Millie, Kaylee, Zach	Andor CCD	10	0	No problems to report	WET run. Still having problems with the mirror cover gui always showing "opening". The open and close buttons still work. We used the dio96 diagnostic to tell if the cover was open or closed
10/22/2025	Jarrod Bieber	MCAO / Univ. of Delaware	Patrick Stanley, Caitlyn Mattison, Evelyn Palmer, Ben Kaiser	SARA-RM	6	4	Humidity	Minor issue with the Mirror Cover. The control window for the mirror always says "Opening" regardless of whether it is actually open or closed.
10/19/2025	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	Andor CCD	7.5	3	Humidity	AGN-ionized clouds. Focus 98870, guider focus 1000. One incidence of dome sticking at PA 75, cleared not just by cycling dome azimuth power but by restarting node service and connector client plus a slew. Left dome shutter power after shutdown, off per Peter's recent instructions (note to self: turn off night light after opening dome and before observing).
10/17/2025	William Keel	University of Alabama	None	Andor CCD	0	10	Humidity	If it wasn't the cloud cap it was the humidity. Dome exhibited interesting follies - onsite workers reported it was open when software said closed. Would not respond to commands; closed under weather sensor when rain appeared. Peter Mack recommends turning dome-shutter motor off during operation and when closed (now in the instructions on the telescope computer desktop) to avoid uncommanded opening/closing.
10/15/2025	William Keel	University of Alabama	Sam Grunblatt, AY203	Andor CCD	1	10	Humidity	Clouds plus humidity. Found that computers had rebooted overnight; had to cycle ACE cabinet power, dome control, restart all the software. Sucker holes gave just enough time to verify focus. Guider focus is +1000 (after initializing the focus stage), which is a change.
10/12/2025	Ken Watanabe	Florida Gulf Coast University	Jonathan Zielinski	CCD	0	8	Equipment Failure	Appears I had similar problem to the last report. Telescope would not slew to any object (I tried different ones) and would say "Unable to complete slew due to an equipment error". All images would come out completely black or with some white streaks. However, they were saving properly. Dome closed and at home. Mirror cover closed and telescope slew should be canceled.
10/09/2025	Mai	Agnes Scott Collegw	Alexandra Yep	Andor Camera	6	6	Equipment Failure	Dome failed to slew to telesecope. Telescope failed to slew to object. "Unable to complete slew due to an equipment error". Images seems to replace image file instead of making a new one. Dome PDU log in failed. Images all failed due to heavy bars, sliced lighting and overall poor quality.