SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
02/19/2024	Alejandra Goded	Instituto Astrofísico de Canarias	Nayra Rodríguez	ARC CCD	6	0	No problems to report	Student research projects on exoplanet transit, 2nd half night.
02/19/2024	Martha A. Leake	Valdosta State University	none	ARC CCD	0	0	Other	Submitted KP report with the current date that morning, 2/18. After Ken's email, I realized that I should have changed the date to enter the starting date, 2/17/2024. Other comments filed are OK.
02/18/2024	Ken Rumstay	VSU (Emeritus)	None	CCD camera	10.5	0	No problems to report	AGN photometric observations. No equipment problems; bright sky (gibbous Moon) and thin cirrus all night.
02/18/2024	Martha A. Leake	Valdosta State University	none	ARC CCD	10	0	No problems to report	Asteroid photometry and NGC 4216. No problems with any system. A joy to observe again.
02/13/2024	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	1	0.5	Equipment Failure	Logged on this morning to check the status of the telescope-- no one was using it so I logged on for a couple of morning targets-- first set of images were fine, but when I moved to the second target they came out looking like biases. Changed filters and changed pointing to verify, but they came out the same way.
02/11/2024	Robert Berrington	Ball State Univeristy	none	arc	0	10	Connection Issues	Upon first attempt to connect to the machines, none were responding. It was later determined that the observatory had seen a significant power outage. The machines were subsequently turned on, and the CCD cooling was reinstated. It took the remainder of the evening for the CCD to cool to the point where it would be useful so I did not open.
02/11/2024	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	N/A	ARC	0	12	Snow	Snowed in, never opened.
02/09/2024	Kaylee Grace	UDel/MCAO	Tali Natan, Easton Honaker, Millie Dill	Spectrograph	0	12	Equipment Failure	Too humid to open and bad weather. Spectrograph wouldn't work, ThAr lamp wouldn't produce images well and the buttons to manually move it around were greyed out, pointing to a likely issue.
02/08/2024	William Keel	University of Alabama	None	ARC CCD	0	12	Clouds	KPNO status lists high humidity, dripping domes, threatening clouds, rain, snow, ice on domes, fog, and dangerous conditions.
02/05/2024	Van Hamme	FIU	Samec	CCD	0	12	Clouds	Heavy clouds tonight. Observations were to continue from last night.
02/04/2024	Van Hamme	FIU	Samec	CCD	12	0	No problems to report	Observations of 2 eclipsing binaries. ASASSN-V J051407.35+010227.4 a short period Algol and GSC 4968 0751, WUma System.
01/30/2024	Kaylee Grace	University of Delaware/MCAO	Tali Natan, Easton Honaker	Spectrograph	10	0	No problems to report	Took spectra of two massive stars. We had to reset the Spectrograph at the beginning of the night because it wasn't connecting correctly but we had no issues after that.