SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Observed	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
06/19/2023	Scott Joffre	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	CCD	4	3	Humidity	Near 90% humidity for the first 3 hours. fell drastically and could observe later
06/17/2023	Ken Rumstay	VSU (Emeritus)	None	Andor CCD Camera	10	0	No problems to report	AGN observations, Supernova in M101. The dome stopped tracking early in the night; cycling the dome azimuth remedied that. The telescope systematically points slightly (1-2 arcminutes) east of target after slewing.
06/12/2023	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	Andor CCD	8	1	Software/Control PC Issues	AGN host galaxies, M101 SN. Focus 99000, guider focus 0. Two issues: First, guider QSI CCD was not communicating with control software until after cycling camera power on PDU (and waiting for Andor CCD to cool back down) plus rebooting both computers. Also, images were strange in some parts of the sky and at some times, worst case making ENE-WSW lines 10 pixels long. A set of exposures stepping along the meridian every 15 degrees showed some poor location and some good ones, without a monotonic trend. The seeing was excellent (autofocus gave 0.8") so some of this mght not be obvious in more usual conditions.
06/10/2023	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	ccd	0	7	Humidity	Humidity high all night.
06/09/2023	Isaiah Cox	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	Andor CCD	7	0	No problems to report	Blazars
06/06/2023	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann, Kouser Imam	Andor CCD griz	0	8	Wind	The wind gust was around 40km/h through the whole night, so I didn't have the chance to open the telescope.
06/04/2023	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	0	7	Clouds	Clouds and humidity-- never opened.
06/04/2023	Kaylee Grace	MCAO/UDel	Henry Sanford-Crane	Andor	0	9	Humidity	Humid all night.
06/03/2023	Kaylee Grace	MCAO/UDel	Henry Sanford-Crane	Andor	0	9	Humidity	Humid all night
06/03/2023	Kaylee Grace	University of Delaware	Tali Natan, Zach Savery, Millie Dill, Judi Provencal	Andor	8	0.3	Equipment Failure	Observed GD358. Lost a bit of time at the beginning and middle of the night when the dome would not track. FIxed the issue by cycling the azimuth control. .
06/02/2023	Kaylee Grace	University of Delaware	Judi Provencal, Millie, Dill,	Andor	8	0.5	Equipment Failure	Observed pulsating white dwarf GD358. The dome would not track at the beginning of the night. This was fixed by parking the dome. The dome stopped tracking again near the end of the night. Recycled the azimuth control and parked the dome again.
05/31/2023	Judi Provencal	University of Delaware	Kaylee Grace, Zach Savery, Henry Sanford-Crane	Andor	0	8	Humidity	Humidity was high the entire night.