SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Observed	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
09/11/2021	Roi Alonso	IAC	Lisa Altinier	ccd	6	2	Equipment Failure	WD photometry. Tracking issues after the first half of the night, getting more and more frequent until we surrendered (tracking failing only few minutes after a full restart sequence).
09/11/2021	Saida Caballero	FIT	Fowler, Gokuldass, Van Putten	CCD	1.5	10	Equipment Failure	Massive star survey. Telescope would not accept slew command and returned a "Telescope unable to slew due to equipment failure." Moving the telescope with the hand paddle seemed to work but was not practical. Tried a simple restart and still had the same error.
09/09/2021	Judith Provencal	University of Delaware/MCAO	none	Andor	0	9	Other	too dusty to open
09/09/2021	Andy Baran	ERAU	Tomomi Otani	Andor	9	1	Equipment Failure	1hr lost due to telescope failure, (frequently stops tracking after HA=2)
09/07/2021	Andy Baran	ERAU	Tomomi Otani	Andor	9	1	Equipment Failure	The telescope keeps stopping after HA=3hrs again.
09/06/2021	Andy Baran	ERAU	Tomomi Otani	Andor	9	1	Equipment Failure	The telescope keeps stopping after HA=2hrs, and this issue becomes very severe after HA=3hrs. Cycling ACE control cabinet power helps to get the telescope back in tracks but this task gets very irritating when one needs to do this every minute or so.
09/04/2021	Andy Baran	ERAU	Tomomi Otani	Andor	8	0	Equipment Failure	The same tracking issue happened at HA=2hrs. The telescope just stopped tracking and cycling the ACE cabinet power fixed the issue. The camera was taking images even though the D drive was full and the images were not saved. No notification showed up, so be careful.
09/03/2021	Andy Baran	ERAU	Tomomi Otani	CCD	6	2	Clouds	Cloud cover in the evening and during first 2 hours, the telescope stopped tracking right after HA=2hrs. restarting all ACE (including control cabinet) helped.
08/29/2021	Javier Licandro	Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias	Hissa Medeiros	Andor camera (JKT)	3	5	Equipment Failure	Asteroids photometry. Problems with the tracking after few hours. I had to fully restart the software a few times, but it did not fix the problem.
08/29/2021	Saida Caballero	FIT	Norton, Gokuldass, Kamp	CCD	6	6	Other	B star monitoring Dust counts were too high at the beginning of the night.
08/29/2021	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	M31, Landolt fields. No problems at all-- everything worked well.
08/27/2021	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	Andor CCD	8	2	Software/Control PC Issues	Galaxies in H-alpha. Focus=101500, guider focus=1000. Initially could not control QSI guide camera. Brian and Peter got it connected, but then nonsense offsets were shown on the graph and any guide move stopped the drive (additional drive stops at all declinations around 3 hr west). Late in night, saw inconsistent count rates between frames even when GTC camera did not show clouds.