SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Observed	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
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.
05/08/2023	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	8	2	Wind	Asteroid. High winds prevented opening for the first couple of hours. Then, the dome would not track accurately but after three resets began to do so. Dome shutter also acted up a bit but a reset took care of that also. After that-- no problems.
05/06/2023	Xianming Han	Butler Univ	none	ccd	6	2	Equipment Failure	Dome stopped tracking and could not move. After fixing this problem following the instruction in the text file, the shutter could not open. After some time, the shutter opened, but now the dome did not move, and could not fixed following the instructions. At the end of the night and stowed the telescope, the dome mysteriously started moving.
05/05/2023	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	Gary Henson	CCD	8	1	Humidity	Exoplanets. Dome would not track at first but a reset took care of it. Everything else went well, although humidity started to climb toward morning so I closed up about an hour before twilight began.
05/03/2023	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	8	1	No problems to report	Exoplanets. Some passing clouds at first but then clear the remainder of the night.
05/02/2023	William Keel	University of Alabama	nobody	Andor CCD	8	1	Clouds	Galaxies in H-alpha. Focus 98842, guide focus +100.
04/27/2023	Matt A Wood	Texas A&M University-Commerce	NA	Andor	10	0	No problems to report	Time series observations of white dwarf and cataclysmic variable. Excellent night.
04/27/2023	Matt A Wood	Texas A&M University-Commerce	NA	Andor	9	1	Equipment Failure	REVISED for ORM: 1) Dome stuck beginning of night. Restarted system a couple times and eventually it worked rest of night. 2) Telescope got stuck in NW at just less than 2 airmasses. Tried to back out with handpaddle, but no joy. Brian Brondel (ACE) logged in and got it fixed (thanks, Brian!).
04/26/2023	Matt A Wood	Texas A&M University-Commerce	NA	Andor	10	0	No problems to report	Time Series observations of cataclysmic variables. Focus 444000
04/23/2023	Priya Gokuldass	Florida Tech	None	CCD	9	0	No problems to report	ulGRB host galaxies observation
04/21/2023	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	andor	8	0	No problems to report	WDs photometry. Some issues with the dome at the beginning, needing to home it a couple of times. Autoguider camera not responding.
04/20/2023	Amy Lovell	Agnes Scott College	AST200L	CCD	0	8	Humidity	Student projects - started too humid and then as humidity decreased wind picked up...