SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
03/16/2025	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	4	0	No problems to report	Variable Stars. No problems.
03/15/2025	Gary Henson	ETSU	Rutherford	CCD & Spectrograph	9	0	No problems to report	Massive Star Spectroscopy, everything working fine.
03/13/2025	Gary Henson	ETSU	none	CCD	0	10	Humidity	Clouds and Humidity / No observer on schedule but noted poor weather closed mountain so filing report for better usage statistics.
03/14/2025	Gary Henson	ETSU	Rutherford	CCD & Spectrograph	0	10	Humidity	High Humidity, rain & snow threat throughout night.
03/12/2025	Yong Sheng	Clemson University	Dieter Hartmann	Leach R	0	11	Humidity	Clemson blazar study. Didn't open due to humidity.
03/10/2025	Gary Henson	ETSU	Rutherford	CCD & Spectrograph	10	0	No problems to report	Colliding Wind Binaries spectroscopy and Variable Star Photometry
03/06/2025	Kaylee Grace	University of Delaware/Mt. Cuba Astronomical Observatory	Millie Dill, Zach Savery	CCD	0	11	Wind	Unable to open due to wind, threatening clouds, and rain/snow :(
03/05/2025	Kaylee Grace	University of Delaware/Mt. Cuba Astronomical Observatory	Millie Dill, Easton Honaker, Tali Natan	CCD	0	11	Clouds	Unable to open due to threatening clouds :(
03/04/2025	Kaylee Grace	University of Delaware/Mt. Cuba Astronomical Observatory	Millie Dill, Easton Honaker, Tali Natan, Zach Savery	CCD	12	0	No problems to report	Observing was good all night! Stayed in the green in terms of dust, so we were able to get ~8 hours of observations of a pulsating WD.
03/03/2025	james webb	FIU	none	CCD	0	12	Other	Blazar monitoring It was very clear, but I saw this on the kpno web site: Domes are CLOSED due to: dust/smoke in the air Elevated dust counts and dust settling on surfaces. So I immediately closed the telescope and dome. No sign of this on the all sky camera so i had no idea until I read the dome opening status. No sign of smoke on spacewatch all sky camera.
03/01/2025	Michael Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	0	10	Other	Just when I was about to log in, the Dome Opening Status changed to: Domes are CLOSED due to: dust/smoke in the air. Elevated levels of dust in the air. Never changed during the night.
02/26/2025	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	n/a	ARC	8	0	Other	EB program, T CrB monitor and ASASSN 24fw. I noticed that first half of night following things from E to W that the dome would lag tele by almost 40 degrees and there was a slight gradient across the field (no moon). I tried homing the dome and turning auto dome off/on and reset but it still stayed about 33 deg separate. This gradient seemed less or gone when I completely moved to a newly rising object far E for the rest of the night and was only 6 degrees separation of dome/tele, so is this gradient some vignetting???