SARA-CT Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
01/14/2023	Priya Gokuldass	Florida Tech	None	CCD	8.3	0	No problems to report	ultra long GRB host galaxy observation.
01/13/2023	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	Andor CCD griz	8	0	No problems to report	Clemson blazar study.
01/12/2023	Priya Gokuldass	Florida Tech	None	CCD	10	0	No problems to report	ultra long GRB host galaxy observation. Had initial connection issues for few minutes.
01/04/2023	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	Andor CCD #2	7	2	Equipment Failure	LMC str-forming regions. Focus 127000, guide focus 8900. Drive shut down once near 0H -70. Had several connection interruptions (possibly local), decided to shut down after recovering from one 30m before twilight for safety.
12/29/2022	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	Andor CCD #2	8	0	No problems to report	Calm midsummer night. Merging galaxies outside Legacy Survey coverage. Focus 127600, guider focus 9330. One incidence of guider running away to SW, near 3h30 E -26. Internal stray light still present. CCD computer still accessible only via RAdmin, so using Mac I had to connect to telescope computer with VNC and the use RAdmin from there.
12/27/2022	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	Andor griz	9	0	No problems to report	Clemson blazar study
12/24/2022	Isaiah Cox	Clemson University	Yong Sheng, Dieter Hartmann	Andor CCD	8	0	No problems to report	Blazars
12/13/2022	Van Hamme	FIU	Samec	CCD	10	1	Equipment Failure	Observations of Eclipsing Interactive Binaries. WISE042533.6., TYC6462 195 1.
12/13/2022	Van Hamme	FIU	Samec	CCD	11	0	No problems to report	Observations of Eclipsing Interactive Binaries. WISE042533.6., TYC6462 195 1.
12/17/2022	Martha Leake	Valdosta State University	none	New Intel NUCExposure start failed	0	7	Equipment Failure	Asteroid light curve. New equipment just installed and I was unable to have a complete readout and reset without the message "Exposure start failed." Next exposure prevented, countdown of remaining seconds not running. Closing and Opening the Operating menu id not solve the problem. Also, was unable to save images and unclear about latest image storage drive (D, Z, or "image storage (\\ISP address)). No files showed up, binning uncertain. Cause could lie in guider menu or connection of other CCD on menu. Seemed that de-interlace choice changed. Peter left message for help to which I replied. Closed down, never opened.
12/14/2022	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	7	0	No problems to report	Standard Stars, Exoplanet
12/03/2022	Laina Tallman Bogusta	ERAU	N/A	N/A	11	0	No problems to report	Super clear night. Got some solid data. Everything was working properly although when I tried to about an exposure, the telescope computer seemed to freeze? I was done anyways so I logged out and logged back into the system and closed everything up. Great night.
12/04/2022	Jacob R. Romeo	Student Researcher	Dr. Stephen Gillan	ANDOR	9	0	No problems to report	Observations went smooth for the imaging of star HD45698 (a field roAp), I hit abort on accident in the beginning so had to cycle everything, besides that nothing to complain about! Got 1300 exposures, 20 seconds each, at a median of 1.2 Mil counts for Intensity and 20k for Source. No cloud coverage with an average humidity of 40% and 1 mph winds! Beautiful night.
12/02/2022	Scott Joffre	Clemson University	Yong Sheng, D. Hartmann	CT	9.5	0.5	Equipment Failure	Clemson University Blazar observation program Issue with auto-tracking failing to be calibrated correctly after a few runs. Seems to correct if point away to a different location and then point back.
12/01/2022	Ken Rumstay	VSU	Apollo the cat	Andor CCD	9.5	0	No problems to report	AGN observations. As noted previously, the telescope points 1-2 arcminutes north of target after slewing.