SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Observing Program
01/20/2021	XIANMING HAN	Butler University	None	CCD	0	12	None.
01/19/2021	Todd Hillwig	Valparaiso University	None	Andor CCD	0	12	None.
01/18/2021	William Keel	University of Alabama	3 cats	ARC CCD	4.5	7	BL Lac, Galaxy Zoo nebula followup. Focus 512000 (worked well enough I was afraid to touch it any more). Guider focus=0; reset guider x,y speeds for ARC camera to -1, -1.
01/17/2021	james Webb	Florida International University	Viviana Arroyave, Luna Webb, Sparkle Webb	CCD	8	0	Blazar microvariability
01/16/2021	Samalka Anandagoda	Clemson University	Dr. Hartmann, Kyle Pellegrin	ARC CCD	8	-	GRB afterglows, M33, M66, M79
01/15/2021	Martha Leake	Valdosta State University	Cassidy Swenson from Tools class	ARC camera	12.5 hours	0 hours	Images of clusters and galaxy for Tools, and asteroid photometry later. Needed to cancel slew and restart early in evening; restart successful; focusing not the best, but no large slips noted. Asteroids (using ASTFINDER from Lowell) typically slightly south and west of center of frame. No large problems and great weather and sky.
01/14/2021	Veronique Petit	UD	Matt Shultz	Spectrograph	10 hours	0	Spectroscopy of massive stars. All good, apart for the ASCOM camera freezing a few times, which then crashes Maxim. Autoguiding on the fiber was OK, even with the wind. The focus of the telescope was still a bit finicky. The Orion nebula looks good on the ASCOM, with only a 0.1s exposure. I recorded ~15 short videos on the operation of the spectrograph, if anybody is interested.
01/12/2021	Samalka Anandagoda	Clemson University	Kyle Pellegrin	ARC CCD	6	-	GRB afterglows, M31. Focus was stable at 520000.
01/12/2021	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	Robert Berrington	ARC CCD	10	1	Eclipsing binaries. Some time (~1hr) lost to auto guider tracking off field and focusing needing adjusting (from 490000 to 520000) when going from target in west to target in east. Seeing never better than about 4"
01/10/2021	Steve Gillam	ERAU	None	ARC camera	13	0	RoAp stars, variables in open clusters, Gyrochronology.
01/09/2021	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	None	ARC Camera	12	1	RoAp stars, young clusters, and Gyrochronology.
01/08/2021	Alec Neal	Ball State University	Robert Berrington, Todd Vaccaro, Daniel Brossard	ARC	7	1	Slightly hazy, focus was mediocre for the first half of the night.