SARA 

Kurtis Williams

ETAMU

none

Andor

0

0

No problems to report

Addendum: so don't know if the issue was windshake or not. After that the oscillation damped out. Dome parked at 235 degrees and verified closed.

Kurtis Williams

ETAMU

Emily Cunningham

Andor

10.5

0

No problems to report

Time series photometry. No problems to report other than a noticeable E-W oscillation in the first hour or so on the first target; wind was 10 m/s

Matt Wood

ETAMU

Kurtis Williams

CCD

2

10

Equipment Failure

Kurtis started the night for me as I had class. He had an issue that the light came on at some point. It didn't appear that any observers had connected, so this is a mystery. I took over at about 22:00 UT, and by 23:00UT I was getting Dome Vignetting error. Dome stuck at 51 deg. I tried the PDU off-on, software off-on, and finally full reboot. No joy. Closed dome and parked telescope.

Xianming Han

Butler University

none

ccd

12

0

Other

there is a thing layer of clouds

Xianming Han

Butler University

none

ccd

4

2

Equipment Failure

telescope could not track at about HR=3 hours

William Keel

University of Alabama

None

Andor CCD

0

10

Clouds

I got suckered in - after an afternoon of blue sky and good weather, a cloud cap appeared just after sunset, joined later by spiking humidity.

Todd Vaccaro

Ball State University

Robert Berrington

Andor

10

1

Equipment Failure

EB program. Missed sunset flats b/c weather was uncertain with RM's main weather page down all night and wind was near 40mph and humidity was coming down; SARA tele pc weather panel wasn't updating, so conditions were uncertain. Connection was lost several times and the cam pc seemed to reboot itself and both needed a full restart. Another full restart was needed after reaching +2 HA and telescope refusing to move. Also, at the beginning of the night after the dome was parked and then linked the telescope kept saying vignetting, even at zenith but cleared after I went to my first object. I took morning flats and watched the dome close after parking the scope.

Tom Rutherford

ETSU

None

CCD

5

0.5

Equipment Failure

Images began to trail at HA of about 2, but I misread the read-out and thought that it was mis-tracking near the meridian. Sent it to zenith park (took a couple of attempts) and then back to my target, where it started tracking again. I eventually realized that the scope was over beyond HA 3 but it was tracking. The scope eventually stopped tracking again so I repeated what I did above and sent it back to the target. The scope tracked until it reached about 40 degrees from the western horizon and then started mis-tracking again. I was due to turn the scope over to another observer so at this point I sent it to zenith park and closed up with the dome at azimuth 235. No issues other the mis-tracking, but no issues recovering from that.

Jennings

Agnes Scott College

ASC200L

ARC Camera

5

1

Equipment Failure

Slew equipment error

James

Agnes Scott

ASC Students

ARC Camera

0

9

Humidity

Bad weather all night

Michael Fauerbach

FGCU

NA

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

Asteroid photometry plus interacting galaxies at the end of night (pretty picture for use in class). Checked that dome was closed with camera (AZ 135) and then moved it to AZ 235

Michael Fauerbach

FGCU

NA

CCD

6

5

No problems to report

Asteroid photometry logged in late, but no issues to report other than telescope stopped tracking @ Ha=1:45. checked that dome is closed with camera and then moved it to AZ 235