----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Sep 17 16:50:02 GMT 1996 Year: 96 Doy: 261 Observer: koon WEATHER COMMENT: Tue Sep 17 16:50:06 GMT 1996 Thin to medium scattered cirrus, wind=10 mph from the SSE, temp=47 F. Tue Sep 17 16:50:54 GMT 1996 CHIP Startup--Initializing new tape Tue Sep 17 16:54:59 GMT 1996 dPMon Start Patrol Tue Sep 17 16:55:13 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol Tue Sep 17 17:01:56 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Tue Sep 17 17:02:52 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Tue Sep 17 17:04:37 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Tue Sep 17 17:05:49 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Tue Sep 17 17:05:59 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Tue Sep 17 17:06:44 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water WEATHER COMMENT: Tue Sep 17 17:43:34 GMT 1996 Thicker cirrus is moving over. Tue Sep 17 17:52:07 GMT 1996 dPMon End Patrol MKIII COMMENT: Tue Sep 17 17:52:11 GMT 1996 Pausing due to clouds. DPMON COMMENT: Tue Sep 17 17:52:24 GMT 1996 Pausing due to clouds. Tue Sep 17 18:05:55 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Tue Sep 17 18:07:04 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Tue Sep 17 18:07:10 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Tue Sep 17 18:07:48 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water Tue Sep 17 19:03:29 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Tue Sep 17 19:04:32 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Tue Sep 17 19:04:38 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Tue Sep 17 19:05:13 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water Tue Sep 17 20:03:45 GMT 1996 CHIP Gain Tue Sep 17 20:08:29 GMT 1996 CHIP End Gain Tue Sep 17 20:08:36 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias DPMON COMMENT: Tue Sep 17 20:08:46 GMT 1996 Restarting observations. 996 dPMon Start Patrol Tue Sep 17 20:09:17 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Tue Sep 17 20:09:27 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Tue Sep 17 20:09:57 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water MKIII COMMENT: Tue Sep 17 20:56:42 GMT 1996 Restarted observations, very thin cirrus still present. Tue Sep 17 21:02:52 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Tue Sep 17 21:03:47 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Tue Sep 17 21:04:28 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Tue Sep 17 21:05:47 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Tue Sep 17 21:05:56 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Tue Sep 17 21:06:32 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water CHIP COMMENT: Tue Sep 17 21:24:11 GMT 1996 chip x direction run away on motor mike about 21:20. DPMON COMMENT: Tue Sep 17 21:41:23 GMT 1996 It appears that the occulting wheel isn't functioning correctly, stopping observations to investigate. Tue Sep 17 21:59:44 GMT 1996 dPMon Start Patrol Tue Sep 17 22:01:23 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Tue Sep 17 22:02:45 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Tue Sep 17 22:03:23 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Tue Sep 17 22:04:14 GMT 1996 dPMon End Patrol Tue Sep 17 22:04:33 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Tue Sep 17 22:04:40 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Tue Sep 17 22:05:19 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water DFE TEST COMMENT: Tue Sep 17 22:46:08 GMT 1996 This is a test comment DPMON COMMENT: Tue Sep 17 22:52:24 GMT 1996 lost control of occulting disk earlier, Koon found piece of a counter weight jammed in the wheel. This has been removed but clutch now seems no need adjustment. Will place occulting in manually and restart program, will work on clutch later. Tue Sep 17 23:04:04 GMT 1996 dPMon Start Patrol Tue Sep 17 23:05:12 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Tue Sep 17 23:06:14 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Tue Sep 17 23:06:21 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Tue Sep 17 23:06:59 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water DPMON COMMENT: Tue Sep 17 23:04:38 GMT 1996 restart program 2303 no motor control. Occulting disk in for all times, even when halpha disk is stated. Tue Sep 17 23:30:08 GMT 1996 dPMon End Patrol Tue Sep 17 23:51:34 GMT 1996 dPMon Start Patrol DPMON COMMENT: Tue Sep 17 23:30:02 GMT 1996 Removed occulting wheel motor mechanism. It doesn't appear to have a clutch but the driving engager is spinning on the motor output shaft. 2350 restart dpmon with working motor, noticed large prominence on east limb CHIP COMMENT: Tue Sep 17 23:56:51 GMT 1996 had to reset motor mike position again after run away. Have been in clouds for about last hour. Wed Sep 18 00:00:56 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Wed Sep 18 00:01:49 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Wed Sep 18 00:06:51 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Wed Sep 18 00:08:05 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Wed Sep 18 00:08:16 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Wed Sep 18 00:08:56 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water DPMON COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 00:07:27 GMT 1996 EPL at PA=90 came up quickly within the last hour while working on the dPMon out to RV=1.2 now. Wed Sep 18 01:00:55 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Wed Sep 18 01:01:53 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Wed Sep 18 01:06:23 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Wed Sep 18 01:07:26 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Wed Sep 18 01:07:35 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Wed Sep 18 01:08:17 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 01:12:57 GMT 1996 dome reconfigured 0103-0111 ut. Dome guider may not be working well at this time of day, noticed brightening on west limb from scatter off dome. COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 01:16:31 GMT 1996 prominence continues to grow will have to call in alert if it goes out another division on scale. Don at Goddard called this morning and said that he and Chris St.. saw nothing from LASCO yesterday at time Eric and Kim thought there was a large depletion. EPL very noticable on CHIP. CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 01:50:52 GMT 1996 dome out 0145, lost fixcenter, reset manually Wed Sep 18 02:00:52 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Wed Sep 18 02:01:46 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Wed Sep 18 02:02:54 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Wed Sep 18 02:04:01 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Wed Sep 18 02:04:10 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Wed Sep 18 02:04:52 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water Wed Sep 18 02:45:29 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol Wed Sep 18 02:50:40 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol Wed Sep 18 03:00:28 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol Wed Sep 18 03:00:53 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Wed Sep 18 03:01:45 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 02:55:38 GMT 1996 optics busy while fixcenter. Had to kill program and restart, worked for a minute but sttatus wrong on monitor, says cover in error. Still hung at fixcenter, Wed Sep 18 03:19:33 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 03:24:07 GMT 1996 restarted program about 0320, seems ok Wed Sep 18 03:25:46 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 03:28:13 GMT 1996 program just sitting there in waiting mode, been here 9 hours and am not having a good time with CHIP, will attempt to shut down during the next hour Wed Sep 18 03:30:45 GMT 1996 CHIP ending tape Wed Sep 18 03:40:45 GMT 1996 dPMon End Patrol COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 03:41:51 GMT 1996 activity report: epl slow moving never got to 1.3 radii at pa 90. QP at 42, 55, 65, 75, 85, 285 pa. Tapes P00711, H01390, C00128, L00414 Note that tape drive 0 of lowL has ejected tape labled L00415, reconfigured tape locations saved L00414 and placed tape from 0 into 1. reset computer, lost data from 0349 to 0403. SCAN-LOGS SCAN-LOGS ? SCAN-LOG SCAN-LOG 16:56:02. 9/17/96 DOY 261 17:07:42 17:10:57 17:14:10 17:17:24 17:20:36 17:23:51 17:27:03 17:30:17 17:33:28 17:36:42 17:39:54 17:43:07 17:46:18 17:49:30 20:57:00 21:00:11 21:03:25 21:06:37 2110 0 CL 21:13:49 2118 15CL 21:30:36 21:36:23 21:39:35 21:42:54 21:46:08 21:49:22 21:52:34 21:55:48 21:59:03 22:02:16 22:05:29 22:08:43 22:11:56 22:15:09 22:18:22 22:21:35 22:24:48 22:28:06 22:31:18 22:34:31 22:37:43 22:40:55 22:44:06 22:47:18 22:50:30 22:53:43 22:56:54 23:00:11 23:03:22 23:06:33 23:09:44 23:57:14 0:00:27 0:03:40 0:06:55 0:10:10 0:13:29 0:16:42 0:19:57 0:23:11 0:26:24 0:29:36 0:32:49 0:36:00 0:39:13 0:42:25 0:45:37 0:48:49 0:52:03 0:55:16 0:58:32 1:01:45 1:04:57 1:08:08 1:11:20 1:14:30 1:17:42 1:20:53 1:24:05 1:27:16 1:30:29 1:33:40 1:36:54 1:40:07 1:43:20 1:46:31 1:49:44 1:52:55 1:56:08 1:59:20 2:02:32 2:05:44 2:08:59 2:12:12 2:15:25 2:18:37 2:21:50 2:25:01 2:28:14 2:31:26 2:34:40 2:37:52 2:41:09 2:44:21 2:47:34 2:50:46 2:53:58 2:57:10 3:00:23 3:03:35 3:06:49 3:10:01 3:13:19 3:16:31 3:19:44 3:22:56 3:26:09 3:29:20 3:32:33 3:35:44 0 ERRORS OK