SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
06/09/2025	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	Leach Bessel R	9	0	No problems to report	Clemson transients study.
06/07/2025	Gary Henson	ETSU	none	Spectrograph	8	0	No problems to report	Spectra of Colliding Wind Binaries - NOTE: Guide camera stopped responding twice during long exposures. Restart of CCD computer seemed to fix problem, perhaps a Windows garbage file issue with repeated I/O steps over time.
06/06/2025	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	None	Leach Camera	9	0	No problems to report	Microvariables. No problems.
06/03/2025	Kaylee Grace	University of Delaware/MCAO	Millie Dill, Zach Savery, Jarrod Bieber, Evelyn Palmer	CCD	9	0	No problems to report	Observed a pulsating white dwarf. The weather was beautiful, and observing went well. If the filter wheel at KP could be cleaned in the near future it would be much appreciated as its getting rather dusty. It's getting more difficult to find good places to put our target and comparison stars.
06/02/2025	Kaylee Grace	University of Delaware/MCAO	Millie Dill, Zach Savery	CCD	0.5	8.5	Humidity	Took calibration frames and then got told there were threatening clouds and not to open. The warning was lifted at 2:38 AM KP time, but ~2 hours of observing time isn't great for our purposes.
06/01/2025	Kaylee Grace	University of Delaware/MCAO	N/A	Andor CCD	0	10	Clouds	Cloudy and rainy :(
05/30/2025	Xianming Han	Butler University	Luke Evans, Aidan Cain	ccd	4	4	Clouds	active star, clouds
06/30/2025	Xianming Han	Butler University	Luke Evans, Aidan Cain	ccd	6	2	Other	stars, dusk in the early evening
05/29/2025	Xianming Han	Butler University	Luke Evans, Aidan Cain	ccd	7	1	Clouds	Active star, clouds came in the morning
05/28/2025	Xianming Han	Butler University	Luke Evans, Aidan Cain	ccd	8	0	Other	The Chrome web onedrive is locked to Ball State University. No one can access onedrive unless you are with Ball State University. I tried to click find if there is a way to untie Chrome from Ball State University without success.
05/27/2025	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	n/a	ARC	7	1	Other	Eclipsing binary. The filter wheel 1 failed a couple times and required an initialization and cancelling/starting sequence (Bessel BVR) and first time went unnoticed for 30 minutes since it looked like the auto guider was going fine. I also spent over an hour on finding the right focus for the science cam, which ended up being 449249 to begin with and around midnight AZ time reduced about 1k to bring back into focus. I'm not sure MaxDL is giving the right arc sec seeing or if the small aperture size was deceiving me early on or what? The ccd pc doesn't seem to have a way to sync the clock? The server doesn't seem to be set on that machine to allow it to be done while the tele does, though I didn't think doing it put it spot on and it always was 0.5 or so off (more off on the ccd pc, but it finally came back as spot on in the internet browser).
05/25/2025	Todd Hillwig	Valparaiso University	Osterhus, Blanton, Wood, Webber	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	The dome was not aligned properly at the beginning of the night. It was off by about 15 degrees and our first flat fields showed this clearly in the shape of the dust donuts. Adjusted by hand for flats. Sent the dome home after that and didn't notice any other problems during the night.