SARA-CT Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
11/27/2021	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	7	0	No problems to report	Exoplanet transit.
11/26/2021	Todd Hillwig	Valparaiso University	None.	Andor CCD	8	0	No problems to report	PN central star monitoring.
11/23/2021	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	6	0	No problems to report	Standard Stars.
11/20/2021	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	Exoplanet. No issues.
11/22/2021	Priya Gokuldass	Florida Tech	Kamp	ccd	2	8	Clouds	TESS follow up observations. No new issues to report.
11/21/2021	Paulina Karczmarek	Universidad de Concepcion	None	Andor CCD	9	0	No problems to report	Observing program: absolute photometry in Sloan bands for local comparison stars of bright variables (Cepheids, RR Lyrae).
11/18/2021	Ross Silver	Clemson University	Dieter, Yong, Isaiah	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	Obtaining photometric redshift of blazars.
11/15/2021	Paulina Karczmarek	Universidad de Concepción	None	Andor CCD	8	0	Equipment Failure	Observing program: absolute photometry in Sloan bands for local comparison stars of bright variables (Cepheids, RR Lyrae). Dropout shutter would not open entirely and indicated "opening" all the time. I don't know if this is a software problem or actual problem with the shutter engine.
11/17/2021	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	7	0.5	Software/Control PC Issues	Asteroid Photometry. Lower shutter gave no indication that it was open so I kept it closed (which meant that I could not reach one of my low targets). Could not access the telescope computer when I first logged in, but cycling the APC power rack brought it back up. All worked fine after that.
11/16/2021	Albert, Icarus	Agnes Scott College	none	n/a	0	6	Connection Issues	Could not connect to telescope camera
10/30/2021	Albert, Icarus	Agnes Scott College	Emmett Dalton	Bessel IRVB filters	6	0	No problems to report	data collection
11/13/2021	Gillam	ERAU	Lilyanne Pepe, Aakash Thiyagarajan	Andor Camera	11	0	Equipment Failure	telescope control system indicated the dropout door hadn't opened all the way. We operated with that door closed. rOAp stars
11/12/2021	Keefe Kamp	Florida Tech	Van Putten, Corcoan	CCD	7	1	Equipment Failure	Dec and RA limits triggered at login (Cardinal directions displayed in limit boxes). Had to have Peter fix it. Dropout would not detect open however would be open. Note on notepad discusses how to open. Other than that no other problem occurred. TESS Follow up observations done.
11/11/2021	Emmett Dalton	ASC		CCD	1	4	Equipment Failure	Dropout shutter still not opening but was able to take a few images up high above it.
11/09/2021	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	CT griz	9	0	Equipment Failure	There is a problem with the limit switch on the dropout. Brian said that he will send someone to check it out.