SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Observed	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
05/30/2021	Todd Vaccaro	BSU	N/A	Andor	7.5	0.5	Software/Control PC Issues	Eclipsing binaries and variable stars. Dome had trouble tracking tele; closed/reopened, homed, and finally worked. ACE crashed when trying the focus routine, required a simple restart of ACE. Lost an eclipse as tracking failed at HA +3:50:00, tele wouldn't move, kept saying equipment failure, so a full restart of tele/ccd software/nodes required; happened again middle of the night, same reason. Keyboard on CCD must've been set to Spanish layout, I couldn't type login/pw to my Box folder with browser b/c shift+2 would give " instead of @ etc...Maybe someone can set it back to US standard?
05/28/2021	Todd Hillwig	Valparaiso University	None.	Andor CCD	5	0	No problems to report	PN central star, only second half of the night.
05/25/2021	Todd Hillwig	Valparaiso University	None	Andor CCD	9	0	No problems to report	PN central stars.
05/25/2021	Todd Hillwig	Valparaiso University	None	Andor CCD	8	0	No problems to report	PN Central Stars
05/19/2021	Javier Licandro	Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias	Hissa Medeiros	Andor camera (JKT)	4	4	Software/Control PC Issues	We have some problems with the GUI from the telescope computer. It was showing some bug and close the connection. The first time, at the beginning of the night, the problem was fixed. The second time, later, the movement of the telescope was not answered more and we finish the night.
05/23/2021	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	CCD	0	8.5	Wind	Wind gusting above 45 km/h all night.
05/23/2021	Alex	Clemson University	Dieter	Andor CCd	6	2.5	Software/Control PC Issues	Mix of software issues and cloudy weather.
05/21/2021	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	CCD	8.5	0	No problems to report	WDs, empty filter, focus 101500. No autoguiding.
05/21/2021	Martha A. Leake	Valdosta. State University	none	Andor	1	8	Other	Asteroid photometry. Calibration images(biases, darks, flats) made but I closed dome when I noted on NOT that aerosols were high. They remained high for 7 hours. Lost connection to saracamera repeatedly (radmin), but able to connect. Secured telescope at stow position. My computer then decided to reset. Programs had disconnected and weather had not changed.
05/19/2021	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	RM	0	10	Wind	The wind speed was very high initially. Though it dropped a little later, but it was still around the threshold values. So I was not able to observe for the whole night.
05/18/2021	Todd Christopher Hillwig	Valparaiso University	None	Andor CCD	9	0	No problems to report	PN central star photometric monitoring.
05/16/2021	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	CCD	8	0.5	Equipment Failure	WDs. Tried once more autoguiding with no success, both setting binning 2, all regions to 1, and auto ROI, or manually selecting a 400x400 box around a star in the guiding camera. No clear idea when hit the "stop" button at the guiding sequence to avoid the "unknown error" message that impedes to restart a sequence (e.g., changing exptime), and needs a full restart to try again.