SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
06/25/2025	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	None	ARC Camera	0	10	Connection Issues	Micro-variables. Unable to connect to the computers.
06/22/2025	Ken Rumstay	VSU (Emeritus)	None	CCD	0	8	Connection Issues	The connection problem with Kitt Peak persists. Not only can we not connect to the computers in the SARA facility, but several NOIRLab websites cannot be reached. Unfortunate; it looked like an excellent night.
06/21/2025	Jonathan	FGCU	Xavier	CCD	0	10	Connection Issues	Unable to observe due to connection Issues. Tried connecting to telescope/camera, but could not. Weather conditions also would not load.
06/20/2025	Gary Henson	ETSU	Rutherford	Spectrograph and CCD	0	8	Connection Issues	Internet connection to mountain down all night. Couldn't access observatory computers or any NOIRLab sites.
06/18/2025	Isaiah Cox	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	CCD	0	8	Connection Issues	Very slow and laggy connection. Was kicked off at one point and took over half an hour to reconnect. Didn't try observing anything for fear of losing access with the dome open.
06/19/2025	Billy Quarles	ETAMU	Jackie Venuto	CCD	8	2	Software/Control PC Issues	I was observing the transit of the Hot Jupiter TrES-1b. I was not able to refocus the telescope as the aperture could not read the FWHM of the center. of the target. As such, I was unable to continue until sunrise.
06/16/2025	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	n/a	ARC	8	0	No problems to report	EB program. Tele pc screen resolution was low and needed to be adjusted in the advanced display settings to get it back to see the whole control window. I tried to connect the auto guider cam, but it didn't want to connect and I was already beginning my Johnson V and Cousins R sequence for my target and didn't pursue getting it to work, so I don't know if there was an actual issue or not.
06/14/2025	Billy Quarles	ETAMU	Piper Spraker, Jackie Venuto, David Von Meyer, Sierra Kunigus	CCD	8	0.5	Connection Issues	Variable White Dwarf, Connection issues with VNC, would not let us log in for 40 minutes and timed out on connection. Was able to observe the rest of the night. Likely due to connection issue on mountain. Clear skies and good weather. Focus of 514886
06/13/2025	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	2	0	No problems to report	M31. Scope was not in use so I got a quick set of data on M31 just before twilight began.
06/12/2025	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	2	0	No problems to report	M31. Scope was not in use so I grabbed an observation of M31 just before twilight at the end of the night.
06/11/2025	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	Leach Bessel R	9	0	No problems to report	Clemson transients study.
06/10/2025	Gary Henson	ETSU	none	Spectrograph	8	0	No problems to report	Spectroscopy of Colliding Wind Binaries (WR star) Still had guide camera hang up twice, even after computer restart.