SARA-CT Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
03/26/2021	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	Henson	CCD	6	0	Other	Asteroid light curve. Due to the filter wheel issue, I set wheel #2 to clear (where it was supposed to have been already, but wasn't) and moved wheel #1 to "R." Both wheels seemed to behave normally. Did no filter changes from this point onward-- everything else behaved properly and I had no problems with the scope except for a sudden jump toward the south by an arc minute or so (something that has happened to me before with CT) halfway through the run.
03/18/2021	James Webb	Florida International University	keslo Estil	CCD	4	0	Other	Imaging nebula and galaxies Tracking was horrible at 2 hours before transit. Not even the auto guider could correct guiding errors. Every where else, tracking was great.
03/21/2021	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Alex McDaniel, Dieter Hartmann	g, r, i, z filters of CT	1	10	Equipment Failure	We can't observe because of the filter issue on the wheel 2. It won't change to the correct filter, and it got stuck.
03/17/2021	Stephen Levine	Lowell Obs.	Carlos Zuluaga	Imaging camera	11	0	No problems to report	Outer solar system astrometry. At sunset, clear, T=12.6C, RH=56%, Windspeed=4.4mph A smooth night.
03/16/2021	Keefe Kamp	Florida Tech	Caballero, Zamora	CCD	10	0	No problems to report	Observed Comets for ObsAstro Class and Standard Feilds with help from guide camera for ETC. Everything behaved normally
03/12/2021	Todd Christopher Hillwig	Valparaiso University	None	FLI CCD	10	0	No problems to report	PN central star monitoring. Only used Filter Wheel #1 and had no issues with it.
03/11/2021	William Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	FLI CCD	10	0	No problems to report	Dead quasar survey, galaxy dust lanes. Focus 132200. guider focus 2000.
03/10/2021	Martha Leake	Valdosta State University	students	FLI Cam	2	7	Clouds	Added comment: I attempted to change filters from SDSS_R to empty, in order to use the Bessel filters in Wheel 1. The filter change didn't progress, and looked like a blockage of the frame. Ran the initialization of Wheel 2 with unknown success. Filter remains sdss_r.
03/10/2021	Martha Leake	Valdosta State University	Students in Tools class	FLI Cam	2	7	Clouds	80 percent high clouds, star fields visible through it, however. Predicted high humidity reached near morning twilight. Student participation delayed because of local connection issues.
03/07/2021	Ross Silver	Clemson University	Yong, Alex, Dieter	CCD	0	10	Equipment Failure	Photometric redshift of blazars. Filter wheel 2 is still not reliable and working consistently, therefore we could not observe.
03/06/2021	Amy Lovell	Agnes Scott		CCD	10	0	No problems to report	Objects for lab - images and lightcurves
03/04/2021	Saida Caballero	FIT	Malagon	CCD	10	0	No problems to report	Standard star fields. No issues to report.
03/04/2021	Amy Lovell	Agnes Scott College	AST200L: Kimbarl King Krahm Nguyen	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	Imaging a variety of objects with AST200 lab students
03/02/2021	Keefe Kamp	Florida Tech	Caballero	CCD	4	0	No problems to report	Observed Various Targets with Observational Astronomy Class. Telescope tracking seemed slightly off as stars were elongating even with short (~10 sec) exposures.
02/25/2021	Saida Caballero	FIT	N/A	CCD	0	10	Clouds	Too cloudy to open. From previous night (24 Feb) forgot to mention that the guide camera was not working. Did not test it tonight.