SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
04/24/2024	Gary Henson	ETSU	Rutherford	Spectrograph & CCD	9	0	No problems to report	Excellent clear night, telescope and all instruments working fine.
04/21/2024	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	Siriah Eaglin, Sally Kingan	ARC Camere	7	3	Software/Control PC Issues	Microvariables. Two hours from sunrise the camera client failed. The camera did not download. I closed and restarted the camera client. I was able to take a series of images without incident. Then the temperature readout flipped to -1000. The camera was still reading out and the background appeared normal so the camera had not warmed up. Then the filter wheel #1 started moving on its own. I reinitialized #1 wheel and it worked for a few minutes. Then the ACE client failed and the dome control failed. I closed and restarted the ACE telescope control and everything worked again. I also closed and restarted the Leach Camera client on the camera computer. The dome interface reported that it was ajar though I had not tried to close it. I then closed the dome and it appeared to work correctly. All the clients are functioning again.
04/20/2024	Gillam	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Universty	Barnier, Eaglin	ARC Camera	9	0	Clouds	Microvariables. Scattered clouds from 11-12 MST. Poor RA tracking in last half of observation. focus = 765382.
04/13/2024	Martha A. Leake	Valdosta State University	none	ARC CD	12	0	No problems to report	Asteroid photometry and Eagle Nebula. All worked well and weather was good, too. Pointing was very good.
04/12/2024	William Keel	University of Alabama	4 cats	ARC CCD	9	0	No problems to report	Ionized clouds around AGN. Focus 765000. Guide focus 0; found bad values in guider speed/angle; reset to xspeed +1, yspeed +1, angle=0.
03/28/2024	Gary D Henson						Clouds	Poor Weather all night, never opened.
03/25/2024	Gary D Henson						Clouds	Poor Weather all night, never opened
03/23/2024	Gary D Henson	ETSU	Rutherford	CCD	0	9	Clouds	Poor Weather all night, never opened.
03/27/2024	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	4	0	No problems to report	Early morning-- no real issues, but the telescope drifts N/S a little when pointing around an elevation of 45 degrees (or lower) toward the west.
03/20/2024	Nayra Rodriguez	IAC	Alejandra Goded (IAC)	ARC CCD	4.5	0	No problems to report	Student research projects on exoplanet transit and SN follow-up, 2nd half night. Focus 720464.
03/16/2024	Martha A. Leake	Valdosta State University	none	ARC	0	12	Other	Schedule conflicts on my end, and no responses from others to observe. Humidity may have been too high, according to present KPNO weather report; cloudy at present (1:45 pm Sunday, Mar. 17). Did not observe night of Mar. 16, 2024.
03/13/2024	Millie Dill	University of Delaware	Kaylee Grace, Easton Honaker, Zach Savery	Andor CCD	7.5	0	Other	V filter on wheel one needs to be cleaned. It's splotchy and dusty, so flats aren't great.