SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Observed	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
06/14/2021	William Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	Andor CCD	6	3.5	Equipment Failure	Dead quasar survey, nebulae. Focus 99940. Cloudy at sunset, cleared after twilight. Lost 1.5 hours of long exposures to tracking shutdown (we could really use an obvious indicator for that). Guiding worked very well even during intermittent clouds.
06/14/2021	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	8	0.5	Software/Control PC Issues	Asteroid, M31. Other than a restart about 6 hours in, no issues to report.
06/12/2021	Alex	Clemson University	Dieter	Andor CCD	9	2	Software/Control PC Issues	Had to reboot following the instructions in the READ.ME a couple times which typically fixed any issues. At one point towards the end of the night (~5 UTC) even after rebooting the ACE program would crash while I was trying to setup an observation.
06/11/2021	Martha Leake	Valdosta State University	none	Andor	8.3	0	Other	Asteroid photometry. No major problems. One instance of "ace-client-gui exec stopped working" on telescope computer. Closed the program, noted red exes; did a quick restart and that fixed it. Tracking did not stop and dome remained open. One instance of lost tracking; reset coordinates, slewed and continued. Good weather, no dust this night
06/10/2021	William Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	Andor CCD	0	9	Other	Closed due to high dust levels.
06/09/2021	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	Andor CCD	0	9	Other	Stayed closed due to high dust levels.
06/07/2021	Javier Licandro	Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias	Hissa Medeiros	Andor camera (JKT)	0	8	Humidity	We had clouds at the beginning of the night. After the humidity grew up and reaches values bigger than 70%.
06/07/2021	Ken Watanabe	FGCU	Nick Rimbert	N/A	0	8	Clouds	Blazars
06/04/2021	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	CCD	8	0	Software/Control PC Issues	WDs, empty filter, focus 100574. At some point, ACE connector client in telescope computer with all "x" in red, but system kept tracking and responding from the camera computer. Observed with the camera computer, and at the end of the night killed the ACE client task in the telescope computer to go back to "normal".
06/02/2021	Judi Provencal	University of Delaware/MCAO	none	Andor	8	0.3	Software/Control PC Issues	Observed the DBV GD358. There were issues again tonight with the telescope gui. It stopped several times. The program seemed to hang twice, requiring stopping the program via the Task Manager, and then restarting. The first time the program hung, the telescope stopped tracking and the dome closed.
06/01/2021	Judi Provencal	University of Delaware/MCAO	none	Andor	8	0	Software/Control PC Issues	Observed the DBV GD358. Minor software issues include the telescope ace gui crashing three times, and issues with the dome tracking. No observing time was lost.
05/31/2021	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	8	0.5	Software/Control PC Issues	Open Clusters. Had to restart everything on one occasion-- everything was fine except unable to reach the power switch to recycle it due to a constant warning message from the browser about the connection being insecure. Everything did fine without resetting that part.