SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
02/05/2025	Matt Wood	ETAMU	NA	CCD	13	0	No problems to report	Time series obs of CVs. Seeing 1" most of the night. Focus 488300-49100. CCD only cooling to -33C. Peter checked in early night and noted he'll pump it down again on Thursday.
02/01/2025	Martha A. Leake	Valdosta State University	Norlund	Leach CCD	0	12	Connection Issues	Connection issues may have resulted from recent internet problems at VSU. Not expected as other computers nearby able to connect. Radmin messages noted TPI/IP errors or connectivity failure. No one responded to available telescope. Weather fine.
01/31/2025	William Keel	University of Alabama	1 cat.	ARC CCD	8	3	Clouds	AGN emission clouds. Focus 489000 (but it slid around a lot, once messing up a 60m exposure). Had to re-initialize guider focus; afterward good value is 31250. Guider x-stage may not be moving. Tried short darks during night and short light exposures with mirror cover closed, trying to track down apparent stray light.
01/31/2025	Jadia Ewing	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	Stephen Gillam	0.9 meter	7	0	Other	No big problems to report. Just wanted to note that counts for bias level seemed to come from interference with shutters closed. Was not sure why. Other than that observing was good.
01/29/2025	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	na	ARC	0	11	Humidity	Never opened due to high humidity and threat of snow. Connected earlier to check after internet outage that was reported for firewall updates and it seemed fine to the telescope (didn't check cam pc).
01/26/2025	Stephen Gillam	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	TJ Matney	SARA South 0.9m	9.75	0	No problems to report	N/A
01/25/2025	Stephen Gillam	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach	TJ Matney, Jadia Ewing	SARA North 0.9m	7	.5	Wind	MaxIm DL stopped responding at 2030 local time. Restarted program. Closed dome at 220 local time due to sustained high wind.
01/25/2025	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	None	Leach camera	1	9	Clouds	Microvariables.
01/23/2025	Hodari James	Agnes Scott	AST 200L Students	ARC Camera	5	0	No problems to report	AST 200L Training
01/22/2025	William Keel	University of Alabama	4 cats	ARC CCD	5	6	Clouds	AGN-ionized clouds; did extra flats and targets at a wide dec range to check recent possible dome issues. Focus 481600, guider focus 0. I saw a recurrence of the weird QSI multi-image readout problem (where the same star would show up multiple times on the same column, usually cured by repeating the exposure).
01/20/2025	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	6	0	No problems to report	No problems, although I could never get a good focus. M31, variable star.
01/19/2025	Robert Berrington	Ball State University	none	arc	10.5	0	No problems to report	Connection was slow at the beginning of the night, and terminated my connection a few times, but did not affect the observations.