SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Observed	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
08/14/2022	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	0	8	Clouds	M31
08/13/2022	Ron Kaitchuck	BSU	none	CCD	6	3	Equipment Failure	Dome stopped turning at 320 deg AZ I was not able to recover, but clouds came in antway.
08/12/2022	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	7	0	Software/Control PC Issues	Asteroid, M31. Autofocuser did not finish routine.
08/11/2022	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	7	0	Equipment Failure	Asteroid, M31. Autofocuser would not operate.
08/10/2022	William Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	Andor CCD	9	0	No problems to report	H II regions, radio galaxies. Focus in BVR 100300. Mirror cover remains open after close command.
08/09/2022	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	Andor CCD	10	0	No problems to report	Clemson University Blazar study The observation is pretty smooth.
08/08/2022	William Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	Andor CCD	9	0.5	Software/Control PC Issues	H II regions, radio galaxies. Focus 102300; software lost control of focus early on, cycled power on ACE cabinet at Brian Brondel's suggestion. (This also seems to have fixed the mirror covers not reaching their open limit switches when first opening). Never did get QSI camera to finish a readout to try guiding even after the restart. Note: mirror covers did not close at end of night (no response at all to clicking the CLOSE button).
08/05/2022	Javier Licandro	Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias	Hissa Medeiros	Andor camera (JKT)	6	2	Other	Asteroid photometry. The dust was over the limit for couple of hours.
08/04/2022	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	Andor CCD	8.5	0.1	Equipment Failure	WDs photometry. Autoguider working, all good. Dome stuck at AZ=315 (coming from higher values). Solved with dome AZ reset, and manually turning the dome in the other direction (steps of 90 degs) until AZ 300, and then linking the dome again. Mirror petals not closing.
08/02/2022	Michael Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	Had to restart several times, MaximDL crashed not sure what happened, maybe the CCD computer needs to be rebooted? Else No issues, good night.
08/01/2022	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	Jacob Romeo	Andor Camera	8	2	Clouds	rOAp stars. One technical problem occurred. The dome rotation failed when the dome reached an azimuth of 313 degrees. We did an azimuth recycle and homed the dome. Note that the "home" did not work until we had moved the dome a small angle with the "GO" button.
08/01/2022	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	None	Andor Camera	8	2	Clouds	ROAps. The dome stopped tracking late in the night. The dome azimuth was 314 degrees. An azimuth recycle got it going. Again, I had to move the dome manually before it would home, after the recycle. There is a bug in the RA, Dec offset GUI. When an RA offset is commanded of >60 arc seconds, or perhaps >59", the scope tracking is turned off. "IDLE" is indicated. No errors are reported. The scope can be slewed. But, it will not track when it reaches the target coordinates. This was fixed by closing down the telescope ACE node service, power-cycling the ACE control cabinet, and re-starting the ACE nodes service.