SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Observed	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
05/15/2025	Zach Savery	University of Delaware	Millie Dill, Kaylee Grace	CCD	0	10	Equipment Failure	Dome Broken
05/08/2025	Isaiah Cox	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	CCD	0	10	Equipment Failure	Closed due to dome.
05/05/2025	Kurtis A. Williams	ETAMU	none	none	0	10	Equipment Failure	Ongoing observatory closure due to dome failure
04/23/2025	Kurtis A. Williams	ETAMU	none	Andor	0	10	Equipment Failure	Observatory continued to be closed due to dome failure.
04/22/2025	Ken Watanabe	FGCU	Max Smuda, Jacob Kinney	RM	0	11	Equipment Failure	Dome still being repaired
04/18/2025	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	None	0	10	Equipment Failure	The dome is being repaired, so i can't observe.
04/19/2025	Matt Wood	ETAMU	NA	CCD	0	all	Equipment Failure	Mechanical problem with dome.
04/19/2025	Peter Mack	ACE	None	None	0	12	Equipment Failure	The dome is closed due to failure of a circuit board and mechanical linkage.
04/16/2025	William Keel	University of Alabama	0 cats	Andor CCD	0	9	Clouds	Thought I had it, but that cloud bank to the NW rolled in right at sunset. Left dome closed at PA 235. (Checked later to make sure it stayed closed.)
04/15/2025	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	7	0	Software/Control PC Issues	Exoplanet. After several hours of tracking a target across the sky, the scope was nearing HA 2 (where it often starts mistracking). The transit was over and I clicked the "abort" button on the telescope sequence control (I had miscalculated how many exposures I needed so had many left in the sequence when I needed to close up). Upon clicking the "abort" button, the telescope computer immediately rebooted. When it came back up, the connector client would not open. Since I was trying to close down, I used the duplicate controls on the CCD computer to close and park the dome (235 AZ), close the mirror cover, and zenith-park the telescope. After three or four restarts, the telescope computer did come back up and all appears fine now. Other than that, no issues.
04/14/2025	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	10	0	No problems to report	Exoplanets. No problems-- kept the scope on the eastern side of the pier though so none would be expected.
04/13/2025	Robert Berrington	Ball State University	none	Andor Camera	5.5	.5	Equipment Failure	Seeing and overall night quality was spectacular. The telescope worked flawlessly up until the 2 hrs tracking limit. I posted a snap shot the Telescope position and the MAXnet Status window at time of tracking loss on discord per Peter Mack' request. The camera computer crashed shortly afterwards. I did a full reset of the system--killed and restarted the ACE node service and cycled the power on the control cabinet. That fixed the problem on the first try. Closed up shortly afterwards because of approaching dawn. I parked the telescope at the "park" preset location, and closed the dome pointed toward home (Az=235).