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Date
Name
Affiliation
Other Observers
Instrument
Hours Observed
Hours Lost
Reason
Observing Program
03/24/2022
William Keel
University of Alabama
3 cats
Andor CCD #2
9
0
No problems to report
Merging galaxies. Focus 128300, guider focus 9000. Found telescope in afternoon at west limit 4h49W -15, Backed out with soft paddle. Also indicator said lower dome shutter was open.
03/22/2022
Keefe Kamp
Florida Tech
Gokuldass, Fowler, Murphy, Magalon
CCD
10
0
No problems to report
Be star observations. The only problem to report was it seemed the RA lock took a while to lock when parking the telescope at the end of the night.
03/22/2022
Nayra Rodríguez
IAC
none
ARC CCD
3
0
No problems to report
Student research project on NEO follow-up, 2nd half night (started at 7:00 UT)
03/16/2022
James Webb
Florida International University
Observational astronomy class
CCD
3
6
Clouds
Class project. Took VRI images of the Tarantula nebula for color combining.
03/15/2022
Tom Rutherford
ETSU
None
CCD
6
0
No problems to report
Asteroid. No problems.
03/14/2022
Stephen Levine
Lowell Obs.
None
Andor Camera
9
0
No problems to report
Outer solar system small body occultation.
03/08/2022
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
None.
Andor CCD
4
0
No problems to report
The night's observers had to call off at the last minute. Used the second half of the night while also observing at SARA-KP.
03/07/2022
Todd Hillwig
Valparaiso University
None.
Andor CCD
10
0
No problems to report
PN central stars. Some occasional pointing issues. As is typical, when this happens the telescope sets about 10 arcmin too far north.
03/08/2022
Ted von Hippel
ERAU
none
unused
0
0
Other
Student observer became sick. I offered to give away SARA-CT night only a few hours before it started (unfortunately) and there were no takers.
03/06/2022
Ross Silver
Clemson University
Dieter, Yong
CCD
9
0
No problems to report
Photometric redshift of blazars.
03/05/2022
Ted von Hippel
ERAU
Alondra Valentin-Torres
imaging
2
2
Equipment Failure
Camera was inoperable and rebooting it didn't help. I put out a request for help to SARA-Tech and heard back from Kurtis Williams (thanks!) with a suggestion to reboot the computers. Either he or an anonymous elf logged in and fixed the camera problem (though not by rebooting the computers), though I don't know what the solution was.
03/04/2022
Zorayda Martinez
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Kurtis Williams
Andor
7
0
No problems to report
White dwarf photometry, focus: 129999
03/03/2022
Kurtis Williams
TAMUC
none
Andor
9
0.5
Other
White dwarf time series photometry. T=15C, focus=129500 at start of night with sudden change of -1500 in late morning. Seeing was mediocre at start of night (2" across mountain) but improved to 1" after local midnight. Used guider, with generally very good results. Target was at Dec=-10; at HA=-1:30 the telescope moved south by about 1 arcmin over 5 minutes - this motion was too fast for the guider to compensate, and the ACE RA/Dec readout did not register any change in position. At RA=+2h, the reverse happened - telescope moved north by about 1' over 5 minutes without the positional readout changing - lost about 15 minutes each time futzing about, resetting guiding, etc.
02/28/2022
Robert Berrington
Ball State University
none
Arc
11
0
No problems to report
short period variable stars.
02/27/2022
Michael Fauerbach
Florida Gulf Coast University
NA
CCD
9
0
No problems to report
no problems to report
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