SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
09/03/2024	Zach Savery	University of Delaware/MCAO	Kaylee Grace, Millie Dill	CCD	9	0	No problems to report	Please ignore the previous 9/3 report, I messed up the date for the 9/2 observing. Photometric time series observations of G29-38 taken throughout the night. The dark frame counts seem to be at the same level as those for the bias frames.
09/02/2024	Zach Savery	University of Delaware/MCAO	Kaylee Grace, Millie Dill	CCD	9	1	Clouds	Cloudy during the first hour that target was observable. Telescope computer display was weirdly zoomed in. Photometric time series observations taken of G29-38 throughout the whole night. Kaylee fixed the telescope computer display issue.
09/03/2024	Zach Savery	University of Delaware/MCAO	Kaylee Grace, Millie Dill	CCD	9	1	Clouds	Cloudy during the first hour that object was observable. Telescope computer was displaying weird, very zoomed in. Photometric time series observations of G29-38 taken throughout the whole night. Kaylee fixed the display issue with the telescope computer.
09/01/2024	William Keel	University of Alabama	DragonCon Live Astronomy	ARC CCD	6	0	No problems to report	Outreach targets. Focus 506400, guide focus 3800. Dark current closer to std value. Guider disconnected when turned off after first target and would not reconnect later (didn't much want to do a ground-up system restart in front of an audience). 5m exposure tracked OK over most of sky. VNC, RAdmin both show only part of telescope computer display.
08/31/2024	William Keel	University of Alabama	DragonCon Space Track	AFC CCD	0	5	Clouds	Clouds never quite broke up enough during our half-night.
08/30/2024	William	University of Alabama	DragonCon Space Track	ARC CCD	0.5	3	Clouds	Outreach. Clouds allowed a quick set of flats but that was all. The dark current is about 80 ADU/hour rather than the usual ~2, while the Leach CCD connector client panel says -2 C and the ACE control panel says -89. That looks more like the higher temperature, or at least not what's usual around -90.
07/15/2024	Kaylee Grace	University of Delaware/MCAO	Easton Honaker, Tali Natan, Millie Dill	N/A	0	8	Clouds	Cloudy with a chance of rain. Not surprising since it was the last scheduled night before shutdown!
06/27/2024	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	6	1	No problems to report	No problems although clouds rolled in about an hour before morning twilight.
06/28/2024	Kurtis Williams	TAMU-C	none	ARC camera	0	7	Clouds	Clouds shut mountain for entire night.
06/24/2024	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	0	7	Clouds	Never opened due to clouds.
06/21/2024	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	0	7	Clouds	Clouds and dust.
06/20/2024	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	0	7	Clouds	Dust and clouds-- did not open.