SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Observing Program
10/06/2021	William Keel	University of Alabama	Marcos Santander, Password-change Kitty	ARC CCD	8	3	Dead quasar survey, observer training. 138100 was an unusually good focus; guider focus ranged from -300 to +100.
10/05/2021	Martha Leake	Valdosta State University	Eight students in Obs. Techniques	ARC camera	9	1	Student projects and asteroid photometry after they finished. Noted interesting small streak in lower left corner of a 180s dark, but no streak in the biases after that. Humidity was high earlier than I expected, but then fell from 12 midnight on. Spent one hour waiting for humidity to improve. Focus was great until I reached about HA of 2.5h.
10/04/2021	Kyle Pellegrin	Clemson University	Samalka, Dr. Hartmann, Madeline, Kouser	ARC CCD	1	5	Had to stop observing due to clouds.
10/02/2021	XIANMING HAN	Butler Univ	Sera Shaughnessy	CCD	9	0	eclipsing binary, asteroid
10/02/2021	Martha Leake	Valdosta State University	Alicia Heger	ARC camera	0	12	Student projects and asteroid light curves. I was unable to connect to KPNO. Gary said that he could get it and that the problem may be local. Using RADMIN, I was not able to connect with any of the three KPNO computers, although I could connect to CTIO and ORM. I will be checking with our IT folks soon. Skies were partly cloudy. Xianming was able to use the night.
10/01/2021	XIANMING HAN	Butler Univ	Josh Wanninger	CCD	10	0	eclipsing binary and asteroid. ACE helped fixing the camera (which was reported not functioning in the previous day).
09/30/2021	XIANMING HAN	Butler University	Josh Wanninger	CCD	0	10	Lost first half of the night due to clouds. Lost 2nd half due to camera issues: The CCD camera on SARA KP is not functioning. It does take images. But all images look like bias. I tried different exposure times, different filters, checked X-stage guider positions and made sure the spectrograph is not checked, turning on and off the dome red lights, telescope mirror cover open and close. But none of these seem to make any difference. Have emailed ACE. And tried to call ACE but did not succeed yet.
09/29/2021	William Keel	University of Alabama	2 cats	ARC CCD	0	12	Dead quasar survey, wiped out by clouds thicker and lasting longer than in the forecast.
09/27/2021	Keefe Kamp	Florida Tech	Norton, Gokuldass, Tobolski, Baranowski	CCD and Spec	0	10	Be Star and TESS follow-up observations planned. Right at twilight threatening clouds came in and did not look like they were going anywhere.
09/24/2021	Kyle Pellegrin	Clemson University	Samalka Anandagoda, Dr. Hartmann	ARC CCD	0	5	Couldn't observe due to clouds and chance of rain during the night.
09/23/2021	Kyle Pellegrin	Clemson University	Samalka Anandagoda, Dr. Dieter Hartmann	ARC CCD	4	0	Observed starburst galaxies.
09/21/2021	XIANMING HAN	Butler Univ	Sera Shaughnessey	CCD	5.5	4.5	CCD camera froze. Tried to access Switch 1 to recycle power to ACE control Cabinet. But switch 1 is not accessible (only switch 2 is accessible). Will email ACE about this problem. After restarting ACE software, a camera does begin to take images, but this camera appears to be a different camera (same stars do not show up). So please take a look.