SARA 

Harum Ahmed

TAMUC

Kent Montgomery

Andor

9

0

Other

Asteroid Photometry Problems: The telescope moved North for 3 min at Alt. of 32 degrees, H.A. was -4:46:41 and Azimuth was 126. Had streaks in the image. Weather: Clear skies.

Harum Ahmed

TAMUC

Kent Montgomery

Andor

7

1

Other

Asteroid Photometry Problems: Closed observation due to reaching the limit of 30 degrees altitude. Weather: Clear with thin clouds.

Stephen Gillam

ERAU

None

Andor camera

9

1

Other

rOap stars. Stormy weather in Daytona Fl. caused internet outage which prevented connection to SARA-CT at the start of the night.

William Keel

University of Alabama

3 cats

Andor CCD

11

0

No problems to report

Dead quasar survey, H II regions. Focus 128200 start, 126700 end, guider focus 0. Some equatorial targets took multiple slew commands to get to the right place.

XIANMING HAN

Butler Univ

none

CCD

10

0

No problems to report

binaries, Jupiter satellites

Ross Silver

Clemson University

Dieter, Yong

CCD

0

10

Equipment Failure

Photometric redshift of blazars. The DEC tracking would not work. We reset the whole system and the tracking but could not get it to work.

Mabel Clausen

TAMUC

Kurtis Williams

Andor

0

9

Clouds

Thick clouds at the start of the night unlikely to clear.

Mabel Clausen

TAMUC

Harum Ahmed

Andor

5

4

Clouds

White Dwarf Time Series Photometry Problem: Telescope moved South for Image 98. For more details see last nights report was the same. Weather: Thickening clouds had to close early

Mabel Clausen

TAMUC

Harum Ahmed & Kurtis Williams

Andor

9

0.5

Equipment Failure

White Dwarf Time Series Photometry Problem: Near start of night and at end of target run telescope moved north/south over several exposures HA: -2:51, Az: 84, ALT: 50 Telescope moved south 87 arc sec over 9 min HA: +3:39, Az: 269, ALT: 39 Telescope moved north 79 arc sec over 15 min We were not using auto guider Telescope pointing was steady otherwise Note: ACE disabled telescope limits: at their request we kept telescope at altitude greater than 30 degrees all night Weather: High thin Cirrus all night Seen: 2-3 arc sec Focus: 12770

Gergely Hajdu

Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center

Paulina Karczmarek

Andor camera

10

2

Equipment Failure

Observing program: backup program (griz time series of V445 Oph and V Ind), due to thin clouds making the original program unfeasible (absolute photometry of Cepheid comparison stars in the Sloan bands). There were technical problems on two occasions, first when observing V445 Oph around azimuth ~ 0, the camera FoV would produce very strange vertical (DEC direction) PSFs while exposing. Sometimes the length of these reached over 300 pixels! This lasted for about an hour, ending around UT03. Secondly, while observing V Ind, around UT06:50 the telescope got completely stuck. I couldn't move it with giving it movement orders, offsets, or the paddle. The only thing I could do is to close the mirror cover and the dome, to leave the telescope in a safe state. As this happened near the end of the night, we didn't lose too much time, but I couldn't attempt doing sky flats.

Stephen Gillam

ERAU

None

Andor Camera

13

0

No problems to report

R0Ap stars.

Michael Fauerbach

FGCU

NA

CCD

12

0

No problems to report

no issues, other than the Full Moon

Gary Henson

ETSU

Rutherford

Andor CCD

7

2.5

Clouds

Asteroid 18488 Light Curve Dec Oscillation at around -1 HA while tracking object. Problem appeared as reported by other observers, went to Zenith park and then back on target with no further occurrences. Band of cirrus clouds after midnight. Seeing and tracking with autoguider excellent most of night.

Tomomi Otani

ERAU

Andy Baran

Andor CCD

12

0.3

Software/Control PC Issues

Photometry time series of a hot subdwarf star. Thank you very much, Brian, for adding the decimal points to the observation time of the image header. Everything was good but the telescope started moving to the DEC direction at the Hour Angle ~ +3 hours. This was the same issue that we experienced the last night, so it may repeat again in future.

Otani

ERAU

Andy Baran

Andor CCD

12

0.5

Software/Control PC Issues

Photometry time series to check pulsations. The telescope suddenly started moving to the DEC direction (the target's y position moved 2 pixels/image). So I moved the telescope to the zenith and moved it back to the target, then the issue was solved. The camera connection suddenly disappeared while taking images, so I used the regular procedure to reconnect the camera. The header's observation time did not have decimal digit (so we could not obtain less than 1 second accuracy).