SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Observed	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
05/29/2023	Isaiah Cox	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	Andor CCD	6	1	Humidity	Humidity was too high at the beginning and end of the night.
05/25/2023	William Keel	University of Alabama	not even time for cats to arrive	Andor CCD	0	9	Humidity	Transient night. If it wasn't the humidity it was the clouds .I did a full software restart in the afternoon because images were not displaying to DS9.
05/24/2023	William C. Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	Andor CCD	5	4	Humidity	AGN clouds, M101. Focus 97020, guide focus 0. Humidity high at start and end of night.
05/23/2023	Kaylee Grace	University of Delaware	Judi Provencal, Zach Savery, Henry Sanford-Crane	Andor	7	0.5	Connection Issues	Imaged M101 supernova, observed pulsating star GD358. Had some issues with the dome losing alignment at the beginning of the night. The problem was resolved by parking the dome.
05/21/2023	Priya Gokuldass	Florida Tech	None	CCD	0	12	Software/Control PC Issues	Had issues with saving the images. It kept saying exposing and got stuck. Had to reboot the telescope and camera computer and stope the node service to resolve the issue. Then the dome state became unknown. Rebooted the computer and recycled the power, nothing worked. Tried to home the dome but the ACE crashed.
05/18/2023	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	Andor CCD	9	0	No problems to report	[O III] clouds around AGN hosts. Dome stopped moving once - required 3 azimuth recycles plus setting first to park position before it responded normally. Focus 98620, guider focus 0-70 depending on filter. Pickup of stray line voltage during readout looks reduced, improving low-background performance.
05/17/2023	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	Stephen Barnier, Jacob Romeo, Avery Reynolds, Kaelyn Weddle	Andor Camera	0	12	Humidity	Micro-variables.
05/16/2023	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	Stephen Barnier, Jacob Romeo, Avery Reynolds, Kaelyn Weddle	Andor Camera	12	0	Equipment Failure	Micro-variables. Dome stopped tracking the scope. This was remedied by recycling the ACE Node service.
05/15/2023	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	Jacob Romeo, Stephen Barnier, Avery Reynolds, Kaelyn Weddle,	Andor Camera	5	6	Clouds	Micro-variables. The dome would not home at the start of the night. It was tracking the telescope but offset from the corrected azimuth. This was remedied by stopping and starting the ACE Node service.
05/13/2023	Roi Alonso	IAC	None	CCD	9	0	No problems to report	No problems, entire night with autoguider. Dome did not go through the 313 az, and tracked ok all night.
05/13/2023	Ken Rumstay	VSU (Emeritus)	Stefan Geier	Andor Camera	9.5	0.5	No problems to report	Stefan took the first four hours, as I had to attend a funereal event in the afternoon. He observed the asteroid 471 Papagena; I was delighted to learn that a second minor planet was named for a character from Die Zauberflöte (the first being 539 Pamina). He noted that when starting the dome was not properly aligned with the telescope, but that was quickly remedied thanks to advice from Bill Keel. I took over at about 1:30 UT, and observed AGNs until dawn with no difficulties.
05/10/2023	Scott Joffre	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	RM Camera	0	all	Wind	Wind speeds starting around 8:30 UTC at 40 km/hr and then rose to ~55 km/hr and were sustained for much of the night.