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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 |
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10/19/2022 | Lilyanne Pepe, Jacob Romeo | ERAU | Stephen Gillam | ARK | 0 | 3.5 | Connection Issues | Camera GUI would not connect, tried restarting NODE service multiple times , restarted both computers, recycled ARK camera power and camera computer and eventually lost VPN connection to the camera computer in the process.
roAp research |
10/14/2022 | Martha Leake | Valdosta State University | none | Andor | 10.5 | 0 | No problems to report | Great weather and conditions; all equipment worked. Pointing a bit north of center as Ken noted. |
10/13/2022 | Michael Fauerbach | FGCU | NA | CCD | 9 | 0 | No problems to report | asteroid photometry
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10/13/2022 | Lilyanne Pepe, Divyeshwari Vansadia | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | Steve Gillam | ARC Camera | 8.5 | 0 | No problems to report | The telescope computer was a little slow starting up, but after the first 30 minutes, there were no issues. Weather was fantastic and collected lots of data!
roAp research team |
10/10/2022 | Gary Henson | ETSU | none | Andor CCD | 6.5 | 0 | No problems to report | Asteroid light curve, no problems all systems working fine. |
10/08/2022 | Tom Rutherford | ETSU | None | CCD | 6 | 0 | No problems to report | Exoplanet. |
10/03/2022 | Todd Hillwig | Valparaiso University | None | Andor CCD | 8.5 | 1.5 | No problems to report | photometric monitoring of WD binaries. Bright moon, thin clouds and poor seeing early on. Took the night from someone else (thanks Ted) late in the day and had a few already scheduled things that kept me from using a few hours of the night. |
10/02/2022 | Priya Gokuldass | Florida Tech | None | CCD | 2 | 3 | Connection Issues | Ultra long GRB host galaxy observation. The air mass was high during the initial hours of observation and high level clouds. The connection to the computers got disconnected for few minutes while observing. |
09/29/2022 | William Keel | University of Alabama | 2 cats | Andor CCD #2 | 7 | 0 | No problems to report | Galaxies, Didymos dust trails. Focus 126300. At one point telescope control system crashed but left a frozen window, confusing me mightily until I sent CTL-ALT-DEL from VNC and made everything refresh. At one point near 4h W -77, guider could not keep up with NS daifts (or didn't have the control authority against backlash to do so?) |
09/28/2022 | Yong Sheng | Clemson University | Dieter Hartmann | Andor CCD griz | 11 | 0 | No problems to report | Blazar study at Clemson University |
09/27/2022 | Todd Hillwig | Valparaiso University | None | Andor CCD | 3 | 7 | Clouds | Photometric monitoring of hot WDs. Clouds most of the night. |
09/24/2022 | Michael Fauerbach | FGCU | NA | CCD | 6 | 3 | Clouds | cery cloudy at beginning of the night, but it cleared up late |
09/21/2022 | Ken Rumstay | VSU (Emeritus) | Apollo the cat | CCD camera | 10 | 0 | No problems to report | AGN monitoring program
Telescope points north of target after slewing, by as much as three arcminutes (amount varies with hour angle). |
09/19/2022 | James Webb | Florida International University | none | CCD | 0 | 10 | Equipment Failure | Blazar Microvariability and star of Star Trek
Informed telescope was down , but later on after too late it became available. Could not at that time log in to use it. Should be good now. |
09/14/2022 | Steve Gillam | ERAU | Lilyanna Pepe, Jacob Romeo, Laina Talman-Bogusta | Andor Camera | 0 | 7 | Equipment Failure | rOAp stars.
At the beggining of the night, I could not connect to Telescope computer. I power-cycled it. And it is now working and I can access the TCS.
I cannot connect to the Andor camera.
I to connect to the guider camera. This failed. I then tried stopping and starting the camera ACE node service. Didn’t fix the connection to the camera. I then tried closing and reselecting the main camera service. The ACE connector client failed. This likely indicates that it cannot connect to the camera. This probably requires a restart of the camera and a full ACE services restart. The failed guide cam together with this failure suggests something systemic is wrong.
I power-cycled the camera. This did not restore the connection to the ACE connector client.
I then tried to power-cycle the camera computer because the broken ACE connector client remained that way, even after stopping and starting the ACE node service. It appears that the camera computer would not reboot completely as I cannot connect to it.
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