SARA-CT Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
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.
09/02/2022	Priya Gokuldass	Florida Tech	None	CCD	0	5	Equipment Failure	Telescope (camera) is not operational at the moment.
09/01/2022	Michael Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	0	11	Equipment Failure	CCD still kaputt
08/31/2022	Priya Gokuldass	Florida Tech	None	CCD	0	5	Equipment Failure	Telescope (camera) is not operational at the moment.
08/29/2022	Ross Silver	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	CCD	0	10	Equipment Failure	Telescope is not operational at the moment.
08/26/2022	James Webb	FIU	Jonathon Barata	CCD	0	8	Connection Issues	Stars f Star Trek, blazar microvariability My home computer with VPM wouldn't connect, it is old and fickle. Couldn't log in. I wasn't sure of the other problems at CTIO were fixed anyway.