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SARA
The Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy
Date | Name | Affiliation | Other Observers | Instrument | Hours Observed | Hours Lost | Reason | Observing Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10/11/2024 | Tom Rutherford | ETSU | None | CCD | 0 | 11 | Connection Issues | Connected during the day to get flats, etc. CCD computer dropped off-line and could not connect to it or the observatory computer after that. No issues connecting to the telescope computer though-- it worked fine except that the CCD would not open through it either. |
10/09/2024 | Aarran Shaw | Butler | None | Leach Camera | 0 | All | Software/Control PC Issues | |
10/09/2024 | Matt Wood | A&M Commerce | None | CCD | 3 | 9 | Clouds | Clouds at beginning of night. In middle of night Camera computer rebooted itself with Virus Install as best as I can tell. This terminated the data collection. I couldn't find the restart instructions on either computer desktop. I restarted ACE on SARATEL, but when I tried to start the camera it had a failure mode. It's late enough in the night that I decided to give up. |
10/08/2024 | Matt Wood | A&M Commerce | None | CCD | 12 | 0 | No problems to report | Time series photometry of cataclysmic variables. Had a difficult time with getting a good focus. Ended at 338400 later in night through IR Block filter. |
10/06/2024 | Tom Rutherford | ETSU | None | CCD | 11 | 0 | No problems to report | M31, Exoplanet. No problems. |
10/02/2024 | William Keel | University of Alabama | 4 cats | ARC CCD | 10 | 0 | No problems to report | AGN extended clouds. Focus 333000, guider focus 4000. Guide camera did some weirdness at the start of the night (multiple images, not cooling) but settled down and ran fine for ~6 hours (2 disconnections - if you catch it right away and reconnect, guiding can resume). Peter connected, changed Windows settings in device manager to not power down USB ports to save power. |
10/01/2024 | Ken Rumstay | VSU (Emeritus) | None | CCD camera | 0 | 12 | Clouds | I was unable to observe; I offered the night to anyone who could use it, but had no takers. That turns out to have been a moot point; apparently domes on the mountain were closed all night due to "threatening clouds". |
09/30/2024 | William Keel | University of Alabama | 2 cats | ARC CCD | 8.5 | 1.5 | Software/Control PC Issues | AGN extended ionized clouds. Focus 333500, guider focus 4000. Tonight featured an epic duel with the autoguider. Long email is being sent to Gary and Peter with details. Guider settings with ARC camera; X rate +1, Y rate +1, angle=0. |
09/28/2024 | Ken Rumstay | VSU (Emeritus) | None | CCD camera | 10.5 | 0 | No problems to report | AGN variability. Good night, though seeing was not the best. The telescope systematically points slightly east of target after slewing. Also, on a few occasions an exposure would self-abort soon after starting. Was able to restart each time. |
09/26/2024 | Xianming Han | Butler Univ | none | ccd | 10 | 0 | No problems to report | eclipsing binary |
09/23/2024 | Mariel Lares-Martiz | ERAU | Caballero-Nieves | Spectrograph | 2 | 7 | Other | Maxim DL crashed while trying to operate the spectrograph. Seemed to work fine when relaunched. Could not get the stars to focus on the fiber plate. The Fiber focus maxed out at 2491, but the stars were still donuts. We could not find the fiber (due to not trying in the early evening) so decided to close for the night. Did not seem to be at the same coordinates in the spectrograph guide book. |
09/23/2024 | Todd Vaccaro | Ball State University | N/a | ARC CCD | 9 | 0 | No problems to report | EB program and T CrB monitor |
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