SARA-CT Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
06/13/2022	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	1	10	Clouds	Asteroid. No mechanical issues, but clouds the whole night so no data.
06/12/2022	Xianming Han	Butler Univ	Josh Wanninger	CCD	9	2.5	Clouds	eclipsing binary
06/11/2022	Xianming Han	Butler Univ.	Josh Wanninger	CCD	11	0	No problems to report	eclipsing binary
06/10/2022	Xianming Han	Butler Univ	Josh Wanninger	CCD	11	0	No problems to report	eclipsing binary
06/09/2022	Xianming Han	Butler Univ.	Josh Wanninger	CCD	10	0.5	Equipment Failure	telescope could not slew properly. ACE helped found a temporary fix.
06/09/2022	Stephen Levine	Lowell Obs.	N/A	Andor Camera	0	10	Equipment Failure	Outer Solar System astrometry program. Telescope locked a Dec limit on first slew. I thought it was reasonably above the nominal pointing limits, but apparently not. I would have expected a possible E limit, if anything. Once the Dec limit was set, it would not unset. The telescope was mobile in E/W, but no N/S motion. Dec is at about -00:12. If you bring up the hand paddle and try a manual move, the direction of the button push changes the Dec limit to that direction (ie, push S button, the read back registers Dec Limit S). Closed up.
06/07/2022	Otani	ERAU	Julia Clark, Adrian Moraga	Andor CCD	6	4	Software/Control PC Issues	Student observation. Photometry time series. The telescope control panel showed the DEC reached both the N and S limit and stopped slewing. The touch panel did not work. We rebooted the ACE and rebooted the telescope PC. When I had the similar issue before, I was suggested to move the telescope to -4h and -89 degrees, then move it over to +4 and -75 degrees. We tried that too but nothing worked, so we ended the observation.
06/06/2022	Otani	ERAU	Adrian Moraga, Julia Clark	CCD	9	1	Software/Control PC Issues	Hot subdwarf photometry time series. CCD camera disconnected once. The regular procedure fixed the issue.
05/31/2022	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Scott Joffre, Dieter Hartmann	CT griz	1	9	Clouds	Too cloudy. Only took bias and darks.
05/08/2022	Michael Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	10	0	No problems to report	Noticed that I forgot to send a report for this night, sorry
05/28/2022	Michael Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	0	11	Clouds	clouds, never opened
05/27/2022	Todd Hillwig	Valparaiso University	None	Andor CCD	10	0	No problems to report	PN central stars
05/26/2022	Xianming Han	Butler Univ	Josh Wanninger	CCD	9	0	No problems to report	eclipsing binary
05/24/2022	Ken Rumstay	VSU	None	CCD camera	11	0	No problems to report	AGN photometry. Increasing clouds towards dawn.
05/23/2022	James Webb	Florida International University	none	CCD	0	10	Other	Observing Star Trek stars in southern hemisphere and blazar microvariability. Computer with VPN wouldn't boot so I couldn't log onto the telescope. Put the night up for grabs but don't think anyone took it.