SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Observed	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
05/26/2026	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	Andor CCD	9	0	No problems to report	AGN-ionized clouds, galaxy nuclei. Focus 99228, guider focus 50. Cut it too close and ran into 3-hr west drive shutoff once. Caught dome trying to open once in afternoon (while dome-shutter power was off at APC switch). Guider x-stage remains stuck in position 0.
05/25/2026	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	1	7	Clouds	No telescope problems, but after about an hour, clouds rolled in so I closed down.
05/24/2026	Aarran Shaw	Butler University	None	Andor	5.5	1.5	Equipment Failure	Candidate CV observing program. Lost tracking at HA~3, which is strange because I got to HA=4 three nights ago on the same source. I managed to get the telescope going again but by that point it was only 1h20m until twilight and I didn't have a second source that was worthwhile only observing for that short a time.
05/23/2026	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	No problems at all. Exoplanet transit.
05/22/2026	Xianming Han	Butler University	none	ccd	7	1.5	Equipment Failure	Tracking stopped at HA=3 hours
05/21/2026	Aarran Shaw	Butler	None	Andor	6.5	0	No problems to report	Best focus found at 98487. Imaging of CV candidates. Made it all the way to HA=4, which is nice. Did not have another target to observe for the remaining hour so closing up.
05/20/2026	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	Andor CCD	9	0.3	Software/Control PC Issues	AGN-ionized clouds. Focus 98487, guider focus -50. After quick look at standard stars and Jupiter in twilight, images turned into 10-pixel E-W lines. Cycled camera/mirror support power, images were much improved. At one point, DS9 mysteriously crashed 4 times in quick succession, followed by Connector Client on the camera computer (unclear whether related). The guider x-stage is still stuck.
05/18/2026	William Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	Andor CCD	8	1	Software/Control PC Issues	AGN-ionized clouds. Focus 96875, guider focus -100. Had to reboot telescope PC, cycle power to ACE cabinet, restart connector client and ACE control to get guider controlling the QSI camera. Even after that, guider x-stage does not move.
05/16/2026	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	Parked telescope HA 0, Dec-28. Checked with Mercator webcam that dome is closed.
05/16/2026	Martha Leake	Valdosta State Univrsity	none	CCD Camera	0	10	Software/Control PC Issues	I hap problems opening the dome. Following the new script, I was not able to log in. Skies in the area looked clear, and received the "Everything OK" label from the NOT site.
05/06/2026	Garima Rajguru	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	Andor CCD griz	0	11	Humidity	Could not open at all due to high humidity and weather conditions.
05/14/2026	Kaylee Grace	UD/MCAO	Terry Lisansky, Rishi Sanjeev, Ava Showell	N/A	0	8	Humidity	Too rainy to open. Still was able to hold a training session on how the SARA telescopes are generally used.