SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
03/29/2023	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	ARC CCD	7.5	0	No problems to report	Ionized clouds around galaxies. Focus 460000, guider focus 0. Large focus jump to 456400 when moving to 3 hours east.
03/26/2023	Nayra Rodríguez	IAC	none	ARC CCD	4.5	0	No problems to report	Student research projects on exoplanet transits, 2nd half night
03/23/2023	William Keel	University of Alabama	none	ARC CCD	4.5	0	No problems to report	Emission regions around galaxies. Did some cloud-hopping at start of night. Condensation on CCD window, evaporated over 2 hours with shutter open. Dome azimuth was about 30 degrees off until setting to home. Focus 458000, guider focus 0.
03/23/2023	Martha Leake	Valdosta.State University	Tools class	ARC	0	10,3	Humidity	Corrections to this morning's report. I was able to do biases and darks (without opening the dome, of course). Domes remained closed past sunrise.
03/23/2023	Martha Leake	Valdosta State University	Ten students in Tools class for 1.3 hours	ARC camera	0	10.3	Humidity	Domes closed due to high humidity fog. RH began to fall at 5 am EDT but not enough to open domes before 3 MST. Need to return by 10 am. Never opened; did biases and flats with no problems.
03/21/2023	Robert Berrington	Ball State University	none	arc	0	8	Clouds	mountain closed due to clouds. Did not open.
03/20/2023	William Keel	University of Alabama	N/A	ARC CCD	0	10	Clouds	The overcast layer was late compared to the forecast, but still arrived before sunset.
03/19/2023	Michael Fauerbach	FGCU	NA	CCD	0	10	Clouds	Domes are CLOSED due to: threatening clouds
03/15/2023	Martha Leake	Valdosta State Unniversity	none	ARC camera	0	9.7	Clouds	Asteroid photometry. Cloudy, rain, expected showers and thunderstorm, more showers and 100 % RH rest of night. Did not access computers; did not open.
03/11/2023	Stephen D. Gillam	ERAU	Stephen Barnier	ARC Camera	0	12	Equipment Failure	Micro-variables. The dome shutters would not open and the dome would not rotate. The upper and lower shutter status indicators, and the dome azimuth status were blank. We stopped and restarted the ACE node service and then power-cycled the telescope and camera computers, and power-cycled the ACE control cabinet. All to no avail. We took 120s exposures at the zenith and got images that contained just the bias level. This confirmed that the dome was closed.
03/10/2023	Gary Henson	ETSU	none	Spectrograph	0	6	Clouds	Cloud bands, variable humidity, sky conditions never consistent.
03/09/2023	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	4	0	No problems to report	Variable star.