SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Observing Program
05/13/2021	Ken Rumstay	VSU	Max the Cat	CCD camera	10	0	AGN monitoring program No problems to report, save the usual one of trying to establish an optimum focus.
05/12/2021	Lilyanne Pepe	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	Stephen Gillam	Leach Camera	12	0	No problems to report. roAp program
05/11/2021	Lilyanne Pepe	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	Stephen Gillam, Aakash Thiyagarajan	Leach Camera	11	1	Ace Node Service for the camera stopped working. Fixed by stopping the program, waiting two minutes, and restarting it. This problem occurred a total of 5 time while observing. roAp program
05/10/2021	Lilyanne Pepe	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	Stephen Gillam, Aakash Thiyagarajan	Leach Camera	11	1	Presumptive ACE Node Restart and Control Cabinet Recycle
05/09/2021	James Webb	FIU	Viviana Arroyave, Luna Webb, Sparkle Webb	CCD	9	0	Blazar microvariability. Couldn't get the telescope to go to the park HA-Dec, keot telling me oout of bounds, so I left it zenith parked.
05/07/2021	William Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	ARC CCD	5.2	0	Dead quasar survey. Focus 363000, guider focus 12000. QSI guide camera disconnected once, but disconnect/reconnect from MaximDL worked.
05/05/2021	Amy Lovell	Agnes Scott		CCD	8	0	Asteroid lightcurve observations. Much better with the moth-free filter wheel, no problems to report.
05/04/2021	Amy Lovell	Agnes Scott	Ed Albin	CCD	.5	10	A training run, which was successful in demonstrating everything including a stuck filterwheel. The filter wheel is on Bessel R, and if you select another filter, it perpetually indicates "Moving to BESSEL V" but doesn't appear to move. INIT doesn't have any effect, it goes grey normally and then just returns to indicating BESSEL R, with the message "Finding HOME for Wheel 1." Tried taking images anyway, and it seems to truly be the R filter - indicates so in the FITS headers and M51 looked like it does in R. Rebooted telescope computer, then rebooted both computers, with no effect on the problem.
05/04/2021	Tomomi Otani	ERAU	Brian, Lorena, Sima	CCD	4	0	The first half was assigned to ERAU. My students took astrophotography for public outreach event. There was no problem to report.
05/03/2021	Todd Vaccaro	BSU	Terracciano	Andor CCD	4.5	3	Eclipsing binary. Lost early eve flats and 2 hrs to high winds. Then lost another hour as tracking issues near end of the night at HA +3. CCD maintained -110C temp all night. 2 min darks were about 10 counts higher than bias. At the beginning of the night we had to restart both ccd/tele computers as tele control of taking images was not sending them to the right directory on the CCD machine.
05/01/2021	Saida Caballero	FIT	N/A	Spectrograph	0	9	B star spectroscopy. Night started off very cloudy.
04/27/2021	Saida Caballero	FIT	Kamp	Spectrograph	0	10	Weather was not looking good at the beginning of the night. Peter used the time to install the new cooling system for the CCD.