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SARA
The Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy
Date | Name | Affiliation | Other Observers | Instrument | Hours Observed | Hours Lost | Reason | Observing Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11/30/2022 | Kurtis Williams | TAMUC | none | Andor | 0 | 10 | Other | Unable to observe due to inflexible class and laboratory duties; night put up on sara-tech at the last minute and there were no takers. |
11/29/2022 | Kurtis Williams | TAMUC | none | Andor | 0 | 10 | Other | Forgot about the night despite having this on my calendar.. I'm embarrassed. Sorry. |
11/28/2022 | William Keel | University of Alabama | 2 cats | Andor CCD #2 | 7.5 | 0 | No problems to report | Artemis, Didymos, SMC, search for NEA Scout. Focus 128500. Guider didn't have enough authority in some parts of sky. |
11/27/2022 | Martha A. Leake | Valdosta State University | none | ARC | null | 0 | No problems to report | Asteroid photometry for light curves. Weather was great. |
11/17/2022 | William Keel | University of Alabama | 3 cats | Andor CCD | 8.5 | 0 | No problems to report | Galaxies. Focus 127500, guide focus 1000. |
11/14/2022 | Tom Rutherford | ETSU | None | CCD | 7 | 0 | No problems to report | Exoplanet |
11/13/2022 | Yong Sheng | Clemson University | Dieter Hartmann | Andor griz | 6 | 4 | Clouds | There were a lot of clouds for the first half of the night.
I also noticed that there was an out-of-focus problem. |
11/09/2022 | Tomomi Otani | ERAU | None | CCD | 7 | 1 | Clouds | Photometry time series. Everything was working well. |
11/01/2022 | VanHamme | FIU | Samec | photometer | 10 | 0 | No problems to report | Observations of interacting binaries. Wise042533.0
Samec |
10/28/2022 | Tomomi Otani | ERAU | Erin Abraham, Adrian Moraga | CCD | 5 | 0 | No problems to report | Public Outreach. Great night with no problem. |
10/27/2022 | William Keel | University of Alabama | Class | Andor CCD #2 | 9 | 0 | No problems to report | Class demo, galaxies. Focus 126600, guide focus 1000. Guiding had apparent hysteresis (did not keep up with drifts), or gave sawtooth pattern in RA, in some parts of the sky. |
10/25/2022 | William Keel | University of Alabama | AY20 class | Andor CCD #2 | 8 | 0 | No problems to report | Class demo, star clusters, galaxies, nebulae. Focus 125700 (changed around the sky), guider focus +1000. |
10/22/2022 | Matt Wood | Texas A&M University Commerce | NA | CCD | 0 | 12 | Software/Control PC Issues | Connection Client not working on SARA CAM. Without this, time of exposure start is not written to FITS header, so I can't use the data for time series. I will email sara-tech to see if anybody needs imaging data and doesn't care about time precision. |
10/21/2022 | Matt Wood | Texas A&M University-Commerce | None | CCD | 0 | 12 | Software/Control PC Issues | Time series photometry of intermediate polars.
First time on CTIO in a long time. Got things going with a little help from Brian and Kurtis and Todd. DS9 was not displaying images, but I managed. At about 06:00 UT I realized that the exposure start time was not being written to FITS headers, so data are basically useless. The Connector Client is not working on Camera computer. It will not start - crashes every time. I restarted the computer and that did not help. I did a reboot from the PDU, and that did not help. Tried again, and now I can't even get SARACAM back in VNC. So I'm shutting down for the night. It was a beautiful night with reported sub-arcsecond seeing.
It would be helpful to have instructions on how to get things going again on the desktop or website. Nowhere could I find the instructions for how to restart everything from scratch. Such a document would be useful to have on the desktop.
Why is "other observers" a required field of this form? (yes, I'm grumpy). |
10/20/2022 | Kyle Pellegrin | Clemson University | N/A | CCD | 3.5 | 0 | No problems to report | Good conditions at the observatory. |
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