SARA 

Todd Vaccaro

Ball State University

Nicollette Terracciano, Patrick Noble

ARC

0

11

Humidity

Eclipsing binaries. Wheel one got caught moving and I had to INIT it to stop and go to Bessel R after it "home" stopped at Bessel I.

Gary Henson

ETSU

none

Andor CCD

4

4

Clouds

M31 H-alpha nova monitoring

Gary Henson

ETSU

none

Spectrograph

0

8

Clouds

High thin and thick clouds all night with bright moon, never opened.

William Keel

University of Alabama

3 cats

ARC CCD

12.5

0

No problems to report

Dead quasar survey, Focus 494500, guider focus 0. It took INIT to get filter wheel 1 to properly position filters most of the time.

James Webb

Florida International University

none

CCD

0

10

Clouds

Blazar micro variability

Walter Van Hamme

FIU

Samec

CCD

6

4

Equipment Failure

I had problems on this run. First the focus was far off. After I achieved focus, the pointing was moving to other positions so badly that I would lose the variable and/or check stars and I had to repoint. Next the sequencer started failing. I was given help on all of these but the sequencer was my downfall. I usually take several hundred BVRI observations and I need the sequencer to work. I would have observed for the entire 10 or more hours. But the system was apparently shut down by ACE for repairs.

Martha Leake

Valdosta State University

none

ARC camera

13

0

No problems to report

Asteroid light curves, a comet, and gathering images for classes that begin Monday. No problems--just the SARA Observatory computer. Good night.

Todd Vaccaro

Ball State University

Aaron Brown-O'dell

ARC CCD

11

0

Other

Eclipsing binaries. Using Wheel 2 for R and I at the beginning of night for one system I noticed that while focused for R it looked poorly focused (much larger FWHM) for I, might they not be parafocal? Wheel 1 was on empty all night. I switched to R and V for the second target, which seemed focused to begin with, but then stars became crescent-like and moving the focus down 3k or so made for a better focus where FWHM got as good as 2".

Stephen Gillam

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Lilyanne Pepe, Chloe Nelson, Aakash Thiyagarajan

Leach Camera

14

0

No problems to report

At the beginning of the night, there was some slight star trailing once the telescope azimuth moved below about 35 degrees. roAp stars

Stephan Gillam

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Lilyanne Pepe

Leach Camera

14

0

No problems to report

Slight star trailing appeared in images taken when the telescope azimuth was below roughly 40 degrees. roAp stars

Stephen Gillam

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Lilyanne Pepe, Aakash Thiyagarajan

ARC Camera

14

0

No problems to report

Bright blotch with sharp edge that appeared to evaporate as we took flat fields. Humidity was around 1% all night. roAp stars & sparse clusters

Gary Henson

ETSU

none

Spectrograph

0

9

Humidity

Clouds, Rain, High humidity with winter storm, never opened.