SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
06/26/2026	Billy Quarles	ETAMU	Raven Powers	CCD	5	3.5	Clouds	Observing rotating white dwarf GALEX J180833.3+462207. Did not start observing until clouds cleared at 12:00. Used focus value 147000.
06/25/2026	Billy Quarles	ETAMU	Alan Briseno	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	Hot Jupiter. Found focus at 135000 with R filter. All went smoothly, No problems.
06/24/2026	Gary Henson	ETSU	none	Spectrograph	8	0	No problems to report	Spectra of WR Stars - Only issue was several instances of QHY guide camera hanging during long tracking sequences. Restarts quickly, but a couple of long exposure images lost.
06/22/2026	James Webb, Asa Bluck	FIU	NSF students	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	Galaxies, poor focus but circular.
06/22/2026	James Webb	FIU	Asa Bluck + outreach class	CCD	8	2	Connection Issues	NSF grant program, galaxies 1. The telescope computer was not communicating with the camera computer. Thanks Gary for solving that issue. Never got a good focus. The images were elongated. Spend an hour or 2 trying to get id of the peanuts. Not sure what I was doing wrong, never had this problem before.
06/20/2026	Ken Watanabe	Florida Gulf Coast University	Jonathan Zielinski	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	All went smoothly, No problems. Dome closed and home. Mirror cover closed and telescope parked.
06/19/2026	Kaylee Grace	UD/MCAO	N/A	CCD	0	0	No problems to report	didn't have any observers available and didn't realize until too late to offer up :(
06/18/2026	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	ARC CCD	5	2	Software/Control PC Issues	AGN-ionized clouds. Focus 453000 after reset (was 38000 before, then slipped below zero so had to reset the zero point). Guider focus 2000. Had to cycle power on telescope outlets and reboot camera computer to get guide camera working. Shut down early due to announcement of expected mountaintop internet outage between 0000-0500 MST.
06/18/2026	Billy Quarles	ETAMU	Alan Briseno	CCD	6	2	Clouds	Hot Jupiter. Found focus at 35000. Lost 2 hours due to threatening clouds at beginning of night.
06/16/2026	Kaylee Grace	UD/MCAO	N/A	CCD	0	7	Humidity	Unable to open due to threatening clouds at beginning of night.
06/15/2026	Kaylee Grace	UD/MCAO	N/A	CCD	0	7	Humidity	Not allowed to open due to threatening clouds at beginning of night.
06/14/2026	Billy Quarles	ETAMU	Kyra Prospero	CCD	8	0	No problems to report	Hot Jupiter. Found focus at 122500 early in the night. Lost focus near the end of night could not regain reliably. Humidity was moderate at ~50%, otherwise clear night.