SARA-CT Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
05/15/2021	Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	8	3	Clouds	asteroid photometry. Clouds the first three hours, else fine
05/14/2021	Michael Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	8	2	Clouds	Clouds early in the morning Filterwheel 2 is not responding to commands
05/13/2021	Stephen Levine	Lowell Observatory	C. Zuluaga, A. Bosh	Andor Camera	11	0	No problems to report	Outer solar system astrometry. One instance where the tracking stopped. Not clear why. Able to re-enable and keep going.
05/12/2021	Leila Alamos	Emrby-Riddle Aeronautical University	Stephen Gillam	Andor Camera	12	8	Clouds	Observing Program: ROAp stars Problems: It was very cloudy during the entire observation Suggestion: Filter wheel 2 might indicate a problem due to its constant blinking. *relates to the May 11th and May 12th night of observation
05/12/2021	Leila Alamos	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	Stephen Gillam	Andor Camera	12	6	Humidity	Observing Program: ROAp stars Problems: Humidity was very high towards the end of the night and so we had to pack up early. Suggestion: Filter wheel 2 might indicate a problem due to its constant blinking.
05/09/2021	Stephen Levine	Lowell Obs.	C. Zuluaga, A. Bosh	Andor Camera	0	11	Clouds	Outer solar system astrometry.
05/09/2021	Steve Gillam	ERAU	None	None	0	13	Connection Issues	ROAp stars A recent update to windows 10 killed the Cisco VPN client on my computer. I was unable to reinstall it. This is the 7th time in the last 3 years that I have had to reinstall the Global VPN client, the Cisco VPN client, the DNE program, and run Winfix.exe after a Windows update. Running winfix.exe corrupted the Windows Installer neccessitating a complete reinstallation of my Operating system. I strongly recommend replacing the Cisco VPN service, which is no longer supported by Cisco, with one that is supported and compatible with Windows 10.
05/06/2021	Michael Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	0	10	Clouds	Never opened cloudy all night
05/05/2021	Todd Christopher Hillwig	Valparaiso University	None	Andor CCD	10	0	No problems to report	None.
04/28/2021	Todd Christopher Hillwig	Valparaiso University	None	Andor CCD	10	0	No problems to report	PN central star monitoring
04/28/2021	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	Henson	CCD	5	0	No problems to report	Southern T Tauri stars. No problems-- everything worked well.
04/26/2021	Gary Henson	ETSU	Rutherford	Andor CCD	4	1	Equipment Failure	Lost first hour when Altitude Limit tripped. Telescope not near horizon, but Slew not recovered until ACE turned off switch to move telescope. Pointing, tracking, filter wheel sequence all worked fine so observations excellent once started.
04/24/2021	Walter Van Hamme	FIU	samec	camera	null	0	No problems to report	Observations of active solar type binaries.
04/23/2021	William Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	Andor CCD	11	0	No problems to report	H II regions near and far. Explored stray light mitigation by doing images with shutter open and telescope covers closed. Early on, a span of panic when it appeared that stars left charge trails along -y but this seems to have been asymmetric telescope bounce. Focus 126800, guide focus 2000. Pleased to see that the Andor CCD can recover control after an abort just by reopening the "observations" panel in ACE software. Guider was not able to correct for NS telescope motions near -65, 1hr west.
04/21/2021	William Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	Andor CCD	5	5	Clouds	Galaxies in H-alpha, checking out stray light. Focus=127800, guider focus 2000. Guider parameters had been corrupted; reset to X speed = Y speed=1, angle=0. The stray light between filters is puzzling - it looks brighter (in ADU/minute) in H-alpha than in R, and only slightly dimmer in B than in R. Its contrast across the field does seem to change with filter.