SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
02/01/2023	Todd Hillwig	Valparaiso University	None	Andor CCD	0	10	Humidity	No observing, high humidity and variable conditions.
01/30/2023	Gary Henson	ETSU	none	Spectrograph	3	5	Humidity	Spectroscopy of Massive Stars, Humidity hovering near closing limit early evening, finally inched up to limit closing all domes a few hours after twilight.
01/25/2023	james webb	Florida International universoty	none	CCD	5	0	No problems to report	Blazars, AO 0235+164, and 0716+71
01/23/2023	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	ARC CCD	0.5	12	Clouds	Weather socked in - just had time for a set of sky flats after filters were cleaned.
01/21/2023	Martha A. Leake	Valdosta State University	none	Arc camera	12,4 hours	0	No problems to report	Asteroid light curves and Comet E3 pictures. The KPNO domes were open, but temperatures near 32 F-34F; low humidity and clear skies. Productive night. Had to stop and restart slew to zenith park but no problems after that. The bright stars in my asteroid field left ghost streaks on the longer darks. Red message on my first (old) computer that Windows 10 was required; so I switched to Ken's computer. CCD Temperature sometimes displayed as 1000C, rather than -109 C; common glitch in display. A good night!
01/21/2023	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	N/A	ARC	9	2	Humidity	EBs; ACE was not working properly on either machine or up when I logged in, so both were rebooted and then seemed fine. The CCD pc had several pages of browser tabs with login failures, the usual SARA login/pw weren't working as they did on the tele pc. Tele seemed to have trouble slewing to first target, was hanging and had to be told twice. Weather station didn't seem to be working.
01/19/2023	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	N/A	ARC	0	11	Humidity	Eclipsing binary
01/16/2023	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	ARC CCD	0	13	Clouds	If I may quote the 4-meter operator's status for the night, "high humidity high winds dripping domes threatening clouds rain snow fog dangerous conditions".
01/15/2023	Priya Gokuldass	Florida Tech	None	CCD	0	8	Humidity	Ultra Long GRB host galaxies observation. 80% chances of rain and high humidity.
01/14/2023	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	none	ARC CCD	11	0	No problems to report	Eclipsing binary stars. Thin clouds most of the night and focus was off for R filter, ended with 473539 by end of the night, never better than 2.4".
01/12/2023	Gary Henson	ETSU	none	Spectrograph	6	0	Other	Test of spectrograph observations and performance after long shutdown due to fire. Details in saratech server email. Formal re-opening of observatory to regular operations after June 2022 fire. Noted debris over ccd dewar window and attempted to dislodge or at least describe behavior.
01/10/2023	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	ARC CCD	2.5	10	Clouds	Played cloud hopscotch for a test drive on long exposures. Focus 446500, guide focus 0. It's baaaaaack!