SARA-CT Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
10/16/2024	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	9	0	No problems to report	Exoplanet. No problems at all-- everything worked well.
10/14/2024	Michael Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	8	1	Clouds	focus on Trojan asteroid 317. Full Moon and clouds were not ideal and clouds got thick for a while in the middle of the night. Camera computer is 17seconds fast and I was unable to correct this. Pointing was off in both RA and DEC -object outside the FOV of telescope.
10/15/2024	William Keel	University of Alabama	Sam Grunblatt, Astro 203 class	Andor CD #2	6	0	No problems to report	Class targets and operations demo. Focus 128100. Typical offset to center target after telescope slew was (-740",-300"). Pleased to find that HA limit for LMC is greater than 6 hours.
10/13/2024	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	None	CCD Camera	0	9	Clouds	Microvariables.
10/10/2024	Catalina Ávalos-Vega	Universidad de Antofagasta	-	CCD	2	8	Humidity	The cloud level decreased during the night, however the humidity remained high during the night, reaching 80% > humidity. On the other hand, the temperature with the dew point had a difference of less than 5 units during the night. Therefore, only calibration images were taken.
10/08/2024	Billy Quarles	TAMUC	Matt Wood	CCD	0	12	Humidity	Closed due to humidity; increasing cloud cover for next 12 hours
10/06/2024	Catalina	Universidad de Antofagasta	-	CCD	null	null	Clouds	No observation due to the dense clouds in the sky.
10/02/2024	William Keel	University of Alabama	4 cats	Andor CD #2	10	0	No problems to report	AGN hosts, nebulae. Focus 126800. Only issue was that tracking became very poor near 3 hours east, -10 degrees.
10/02/2024	Catalina Ávalos-Vega	Universidad de Antofagasta	-	CCD	6	1	No problems to report	Observation started at 22:30 UT and ended at 7:30 UT. During the night transit of TOI-4282 was observed with filter i' (00:57-05:41 UT) and focus 127201. Good weather conditions.
09/30/2024	Easton Honaker	University of Delaware	Kaylee Grace, Zach Savery, Millie Dill	Andor	0	10	Clouds	Did not observe due to cloud coverage. Tried offloading older data following instructions from Discord. Could not because no internet on any computers. Radmin file transfer requires a windows computer but CTIO VPN is nearly impossible to install on windows. VNC file transfer requires a paid subscription.
09/29/2024	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	Samuel Quinutolo, Jadia Ewing, TJ Matney	ARC Camera	9	0	Other	ROAp stars. At around 11:40 pm, we found the dome azimuth was very different to the telescope azimuth. i.e. Done: 317 deg vs. tele: 61 deg. Our images were not occluded or vignetted so we surmised that the dome encoder was reading incorrectly. An hour later the azimuths agreed again within a few degrees.
09/25/2024	Catalina Ávalos-Vega	Universidad de Antofagasta	-	CCD	7	2	No problems to report	The photometric quality of the night improved during the night. Transit of TOI-181 observed using SDSS i' filter. Good weather conditions. The camera PC is still not connected to the Internet.
09/21/2024	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	0	8	Clouds	Clouds-- never opened.
09/14/2024	Robert Berrington	Ball State University	none	arc	10	0	Connection Issues	Telescope and new Cisco AnyConnect VPN connection worked as expected for most of the night. At the beginning, before flat time the VPN connection was very unstable and quit several times. But once flats started the connection did not disconnect. I will note that it appears that the Dropbox connection does not appear to work under the new VPN connection. Therefore, must be downloaded via the Radmin file transfer protocol, and is considerably slower than transfer via Dropbox method
09/13/2024	Martha A. Leake	Valdosta State University	none	Andor CCD	10	0	No problems to report	Asteroid rotation rate and objects in southern sky. Some pointing issues, to south and west, but easy to work around. Weather good. Took flats in morning.