SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Observed	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
03/23/2021	Keefe Kamp	Florida Tech	Caballero, Zamora	CCD	11	1	Software/Control PC Issues	At the beginning of the night, ACE crashed when taking flats and had to perform a full restart. The guide camera stopped working partway through the night had to do a full restart 2x to get everything back to normal. When a minor planet is used as a target the Telescope position pane constantly resizes to the entire width of the screen.
03/16/2021	James Webb	Florida International University	Viviano Arrayave	CCD	10	0	No problems to report	Blazar microvariability
03/16/2021	James Webb	Florida International University	Viviana Arroyav	CCD	10	0	No problems to report	Blazar microvariability No problems.
03/22/2021	Javier Licandro	Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias	Hissa Medeiros	Andor camera (JKT)	10	2	Software/Control PC Issues	We did have problems at the beginning of the night with the control of the telescope, but it was fixed.
03/09/2021	Javier Licandro	Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias	Hissa Medeiros	Andor camera (JKT)	10	0	No problems to report	No problems
03/22/2021	Tomomi Otani	ERAU	Brian Herbster, Sima, Lorena Sanabria	CCD	8.5	1	Equipment Failure	photometry time series to find the star rotation periods for Gyrochronology. The telescope suddenly started moving once and reached the software limit. So we needed to cycle the control cabinet. Brian helped us and moved the telescope back using the control pad (Thank you so much, Brian!) and we could start our observation again.
03/20/2021	Nuria Torres-Alba	Clemson University	Alex McDaniel, Dieter Hartmann	ORM	9	0	No problems to report	Clemson University, Blazar Observations, Photo-z measurements
03/19/2021	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	CCD	9	0.5	Equipment Failure	WDs observed with guiding. After a full reset before starting obs, everything running smoothly. Some tracking losses at the very end of the night, when the target was at around 35 degs above the horizon. RA-DEC resets solved them for a short time.
03/17/2021	William Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	Andor CCD	10	0.3	Equipment Failure	Dead quasar survey. My first time with new all-on-one guider panel. It was much more reliable - lost control once and had to restart software all around to restore it. Excellent night. BVR focus 97353, guider focus 330.
03/16/2021	Tomomi Otani	ERAU	Brian Herbster, Lorena Sanabria	Andor CCD	9	0	No problems to report	Rotation periods search for gyrochronology. Good night and no problem to report.
03/14/2021	Michael Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	8	2	Clouds	Lots of clouds early on. Cleared up towards the morning. I turned off the cooler -not sure if we still are supposed to do this or not.
03/11/2021	Todd Hillwig	Valparaiso University	None	Andor CCD	8.5	1.5	Equipment Failure	Tracking turned off six times. Did a full restart before the night began, then did another halfway through the night when the tracking turned off three times in less than half an hour. Tracking turned off twice after that. Clouds came in just before morning twilight.