SARA-RM Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hrs Observed	Hrs Lost	Reason	Observing Program
10/18/2020	James Webb	Florida International University	none	CCD camera	0	10	Humidity	Blazar microvariability
10/17/2020	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	Savannah Caldwell, Leila Alamos	Andor Camera	9	4	Wind	Program: rOAp stars. We shut down for most of the last half of the night variously due to rain, wind gusts and humidity. The filter wheel GUI or filter wheel wasn't working at the beginning of the night. We selected a filter and the indication that it was working came up. But, the arrow did not move to the selected filter. We followed the procedure for restarting the clients and ACE node services, and cycling the ACE power. This got everything running again. We also had to recalibrate the dome azimutth. It was off by about 8 degrees.
10/16/2020	Gillam	Erau	Alamos, Caldwell	Andor	9	4	Humidity	rOAp Stars, filter wheel was not changing filters and dome was not following telescope. Per the procedure, we did a stopped and restarted the ACE node services and recycled the power on the ACE power control. Humidity and a little rain ended the night at around 3 am.
10/16/2020	Gillam,	ERAU	Alamos, Caldwell	Andor	10	3	No problems to report	ROAp Stars. Focus = 98788, Seeing 1.4". Closed down for dust buildup above the 20 ug/m^3 limit.
10/07/2020	Núria Torres-Albà	Clemson University	Yong, Dieter	ORM	6h30min	3h	Humidity	Blazar observations. Problems: -Filter wheel often changes filters on its own. We had the problem twice, and had to do a restart in order to fix it. We saw it happen in both Wheel 1 and Wheel 2, even though we were only using Wheel 2.
10/03/2020	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	ccd	6	3.5	Wind	white dwarfs. Opened late only after wind gusts went below 45 km/h. Did a full restart before opening. Everything running smoothly, not even tracking problems when at low altitudes.
10/03/2020	Ken Watanabe	FGCU	Nicolas Rimbert	Andor CCD	1.5	6	Wind	Blazars. Winds limit reached; humidity at 72/100 and bright moon. Weather station last report was 45 hours ago, Used NOT weather data instead.
09/25/2020	Martha A. Leake	Valdosta State University	none	Andor Camera	0	9	Clouds	Did not open. Dust was bad as well as weather. I had KPNO the same night, and it was closed. This is a late report.
09/30/2020	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	Gary Henson	Andor CCD	6	0	No problems to report	Primary target was M31. Received a message about the shutter being "ajar" as I was opening up, but retrying worked without issue. Used the autoguider and it worked well, although the second time I started it the plots would not update although the guider seemed to be working-- 10 minute exposures.
09/26/2020	Roi Alonso	IAC	none	CCD	0	10	Wind	Wind gusting above 45 km/h most of the night.
09/22/2020	James Webb	Florida International University	none	CCD camera	0	10	Clouds	Blazar microvariability BL Lac
09/19/2020	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	Melanie Isenbarger	Andor camera	8	1	Software/Control PC Issues	EB photometry. Had to do a full reset of tele/ccd Ace/nodes before we could do anything. Also had to do full reset 2 other times during the night as the ccd froze during sequences.