SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
05/30/2022	Ken Rumstay	VSU	None	CCD camera	9	0	No problems to report	AGN program One minor annoyance: I'm not sure why, but I was unable to change the sizes of any of the windows on the camera computer display.
05/29/2022	Robert Berrington	Ball State University	none	arc	7	0	Other	Short period variable stars I was unsuccessful in getting the guider to successfully follow a star. In fact it appears to drive the star off the field rather than follow it.
05/27/2022	Martha Leake	Valdosta State University	none	ARC camera	8.5	0	No problems to report	Asteroids. Clouds at sunset continued then cleared somewhat.
05/24/2022	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	Nicolette Terracciano	ARC CCD	8.5	0	No problems to report	Eclipsing binaries. Thin clouds throughout the night and poor seeing with best focus around 2.5 arcsec. Forgot to turn autodome on for flats, but does that matter for zenith park? Dome was around 90 degrees and later when I closed I parked again at zenith and dome moved to 89ish, so I suppose no obstruction for earlier flats.
05/20/2022	Kyle Pellegrin	Clemson University	N/A	ARC CCD	0	5	Wind	Dome was not opened due to high winds and a report of dust/smoke in the air from the 4m telescope.
05/14/2022	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	0	8	Equipment Failure	Could not detect stars in images. Checked to see if the spectrograph was in the way-- it wasn't-- not sure at all what the issue was-- closed up after trying for a couple of hours.
05/11/2022	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	4	3	Clouds	Asteroids. Cirrus clouds at first but cleared after local midnight. No issues with the telescope or CCD.
05/09/2022	Kyle Pellegrin	Clemson University	N/A	ARC CCD & Spectrograph	6.5	0	No problems to report	Galaxy monitoring and spectroscopy practice.
05/08/2022	Roebrt Berrington	Ball State University	none	ARC	7	0	No problems to report	Short period variable stars
05/05/2022	Ken Rumstay	VSU (Emeritus)	Max the Cat	CCD camera	8	1	No problems to report	AGN Monitoring. First hour lost to stupidity. Observing went swimmingly once Todd reminded me to move the spectrograph out of the way.
05/02/2022	William Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	ARC CCD	9	0	No problems to report	Finished merger sample of Dead Quasar Survey. Oddity: TEL computer RAdmin connection froze often, and mostly when the CCD was reading out, requiring making a new connection. Focus 438200, guider focus -1600.
05/01/2022	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	ARC CCD	2.5	6	Other	Closed due to dust/smoke per 4m operator (Ken Rumstay pointed that out - at sunset a couple of domes including WIYN were open so I was lulled). Dead quasar survey. Focus=439500, guider focus 0.