SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
03/04/2023	Isaiah Cox	Clemson University	Yong Sheng, Dieter Hartmann	CCD	9	Equipment Failure	Clemson blazar study. Could not focus. Stars appear asymmetrical. No observations could be done.
03/03/2023	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	8	Equipment Failure	Triangular stars with FWHM at best focus of about 11 (my target could not be detected in the images). Many images had very significant trailing though that settled down after a while.
02/28/2023	Javier Licandro	Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias	Hissa Medeiros	Andor camera (JKT)	10	Equipment Failure	We had focus issues. The target and stars in the field were a non uniform shape (as triangle shape).
02/26/2023	Walter Van Hamme	FIU	Samec	CCD	11	Connection Issues	Scope will not respond to contact. No observing possible.
02/24/2023	Stephen D. Gillam	ERAU	Pepe, Romeo, Vansadia	ARC Camera	13	Connection Issues	Micro-variables. Unable to connect to the 0RM computers. This is probably due to the breaker issue reported earlier this week.
02/23/2023	Kurtis Williams	TAMUC	none	Andor	11	Humidity	High humidity and likely icing, so did not open dome. Computers unreachable anyway. I suggest either a piece of tape on the circuit breaker saying "!No tocar!" or electrifying the circuit breaker to give someone a nasty shock if they try to turn it off.
02/22/2023	Todd Vaccaro	BSU	N/A	Andor CCD	10	Humidity	Although the weather was horrible, I was never able to connect to any of the computers nor was someone who was on the mountain at the time.
02/19/2023	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	ccd	11	Humidity	humidity and "weather procedures are in force"
02/15/2023	james Webb	FIU	Observational Class	CCD	8	Other	Smoke warnings
02/18/2023	Martha Leake	Valdosta State University	none	Andor	11.5	Other	Notification that "ING bad weather procedures are in force." Problems could occur because of reduced staff and ice on domes as Brian noted. Did not open. Weather is improving, but humidity exceeded 80% several times before midnight UT.
02/17/2023	Kurtis Williams	TAMUC	none	Andor	11	Snow	Ice on domes, humidity, clouds, and rain. I decided it probably was not worthwhile to open.
02/16/2023	Kurtis Williams	TAMUC	none	Andor	11	Snow	Observatory closed due to snow and ice on dome.