SARA 

Todd Vaccaro

Ball State University

n/a

ARC

7

2

Clouds

eclipsing binary and other. Mountain closed first two hours for threatening clouds, so no eve flats. All seemed fine till the last hour when target was around +1.5 HA and the focus looked bad and couldn't recover; seemed a spontaneous shift out of nowhere. I was also thrown off for the first few hours of Bessel BV data as I had set the binning to single in the ARC Simple window, but the sequence had previously been used with the setting of the first two filters for 2 and I had BV double binned and my R single binned that worked with my flats obtained in the morning and the darks/bias frames from earlier before sunset, so I've asked on Discord for Bessel BV double binned flats and bias frames if someone can share. Shortly after zenith parking the scope and starting my morning flats I lost connection to both computers and it took a few minutes to regain connection, but all was still as I left it and I rushed to finish flats. I stowed the scope, shut the mirror covers and dome and homed the dome, watching with the camera.

Walter Van Hamme

FIU

Samec

ARC Camera

10

0

No problems to report

BVRI Observations of Short Period Binaries, ASASSN-V123133.54+683809.2.

Van Hamme

FIU

Samec

ARC Camera

10

0

No problems to report

BVRI Observations of Short Period Binaries, ASASSN-V123133.54+683809.2.

Kurtis Williams

ETAMU

none

ARC

6

1

Software/Control PC Issues

Stable, clear night. Sequence froze on ACE software; about 1 total hour lost recovering - quick recovery method worked, but this groggy brain just took 20 min to notice it was frozen and took things very slow during recovery. Temp steady at 8.4C all night; focus steady at 423500 for Bessell V.

Aarran Shaw

Butler

NONE

CCD

0

8

Humidity

Didn't even open. 100% humidity and threatening clouds.

Martha A. Leake

Valdosta State University

none

CCD

0

9.5

Other

Combination: Unable to connect to SARA KP (using Radmin), weather issue: 20-35 km/h winds caused Dome Closure:"Domes closed due to Dust/smoke in air" at 2021 NST, Waited an hour after this before filing report. The connection issue may just be Valdosta and our Radmin program. Now we are under a thunderstorm, which was not the case two hours ago. Time here: 12:49 am EDT. I did not open the dome because of the connection issue.

William Keel

University of Alabama

2 cats

ARC CCD

9

0.2

Software/Control PC Issues

AGN-ionized clouds. Focus 423600, guider focus 32250. ACE control crashed once, apparently after a filter move took too long.

Matt Wood

ETAMU

NA

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

CV time series. Great night. Focus 421840.

Matt Wood

ETAMU

NA

CCD

4

4

Connection Issues

Time series of CVs. About 4 hours in lost contact with SARATEL. Couldn't reconnect. Shut down observatory. Emailed Todd and Peter.

Kurtis Williams

ETAMU

none

ARC

8

0

No problems to report

Time series photometry. Only minor issue was with autoguiding. I was able to connect camera, focus (eventually), and start guiding, but it never stabilized (star faded error when it wandered too far away). I tried twice with same star and result, then gave up since I didn't need guiding. No other problems. Pointing was excellent.

Matt Wood

ETAMU

NA

CCD

4

4

Other

KPNO Domes closed due to dust/smoke, so I did, too. Time series of AM CVn. Focus 419400. Autoguider wasn't connecting, but I forgot to ask for help with that and was too lazy to reboot.

Matt Wood

ETAMU

NA

CCD

8

0

No problems to report

CV Time series. Focus 419400.