SARA-CT Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
07/19/2023	Michael Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	0	11	Clouds	Clouds, never opened
07/15/2023	Tomomi Otani	ERAU	Julia Clark	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	Hot subdwarf photometry time series. It was a great night.
07/14/2023	Tomomi Otani	ERAU	Julia Clark	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	Hot subdwarf photometry time series. It was a good night.
07/12/2023	Martha Leake	Valdosta State University	none	Arc CCD	0	12	Snow	Humidity at or near 100% most of night. At 6:33 snow (1-2 inches) on the ground. Wind recorded at SOAR 40+ m/s. Sky clearing at 5:30 am to present (6:34). Did not open, but took biases and darks earlier. Camera connections good. Will not open this morning (July 12). Date recording on this form is not correct. This observation run began July 11; a second report filed on July 12 at 6:38 am. Weather should be better later today.
07/11/2023	Martha Leake	Valdosta State University	none	ARC CCD	0	12	Clouds	Clouds, rain, snow, fog at least until 12 midnight, then projected high humidity and clouds until 3-4 am; possible clearing forecast between 6-8. If snow, then dripping domes likely. Will file amendment in 4-5 hours. Intended to observe asteroids for light curve determination.
07/10/2023	Judi Provencal	University of Delaware	none	CCD	0	0	Clouds	CCD imaging
07/09/2023	Terry Oswalt	ERAU	Steve Gillam, Eden Kope, Ahnika Gee, Ryan Reynolds, Melinda Walls, Luca Guida, Krys Confeiteiro	Andor Camera	11	null	Clouds	Gyrochronology. It was very cloudy the entire time. We still observed though - this was mostly a training exercise for the students.
07/07/2023	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann, Kourse Imam, Antonio Circiello	Andor CCD griz	12	2.5	Equipment Failure	The focus was good but went bad during the night. I am not sure if it's a gradually continuous change in the focus or it's a sudden change, causing many scientific images to be useless. This has happened multiple times to me.
06/26/2023	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	3	7	Clouds	Exoplanet. Clouds rolled in around midnight-- tried to out wait them, but eventually gave up and closed up.
06/23/2023	Michael Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	8	3	Clouds	asteroid photometry clouds and very poor seeing at the beginning of the night.
06/22/2023	Michael Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	0	11	Clouds	clouds never opened
06/20/2023	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	Andor CCD griz	0	11	Clouds	Closed the telescope due to the clouds to avoid possible rains.
06/21/2023	Fangyi Zhu	Student	None	CTIO	9.5	4.5	Clouds	White Dwarf photometry
06/19/2023	Tomomi Otani	ERAU	Julia Clark	CCD	10	0	No problems to report	Variable sdbs
06/17/2023	Shayaan Zari	Texas A&M University Commerce	Lena Dietrich, S Johns, Dr Kurtis WIlliams	Andor	10.5	0	No problems to report	Asteroid photometry.