----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Oct 24 16:52:09 GMT 2003 Year: 03 Doy: 297 Observer: yasukawa WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Oct 24 16:52:14 GMT 2003 Cool, in moderately thick cirrustratus, light south wind. COMMENT: Fri Oct 24 16:52:42 GMT 2003 Read HELCO meters on the way up. Fri Oct 24 16:57:27 GMT 2003 CHIP Start Patrol Fri Oct 24 16:58:21 GMT 2003 PICS Start Patrol **PSPT PROBLEM**: Fri Oct 24 17:00:56 GMT 2003 Xterm messages indicate that Pspt program may not have been exited, data may not have been transferred. Exit command did not cause the usual HD activity. **PSPT PROBLEM**: Fri Oct 24 17:13:51 GMT 2003 MLSO_DLT_results email indicates pspt data was successfully transferred last night. PSPT COMMENT: Fri Oct 24 17:26:21 GMT 2003 Observing. Fri Oct 24 18:00:59 GMT 2003 CHIP LSD Fri Oct 24 18:02:38 GMT 2003 CHIP End LSD Fri Oct 24 18:02:44 GMT 2003 CHIP BiasLSD Fri Oct 24 18:03:34 GMT 2003 CHIP End BiasLSD Fri Oct 24 18:03:40 GMT 2003 CHIP Bias Fri Oct 24 18:04:15 GMT 2003 PICS Flat Fri Oct 24 18:04:30 GMT 2003 CHIP End Bias Fri Oct 24 18:06:39 GMT 2003 PICS End Flat WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Oct 24 19:30:51 GMT 2003 Cirrostratus thinning out a bit and some holes may pass over. **MLSO PROBLEM**: Fri Oct 24 19:37:40 GMT 2003 Looks like network is down beyond local connections. WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Oct 24 19:59:13 GMT 2003 Clearing. MKIV COMMENT: Fri Oct 24 19:59:26 GMT 2003 Centering O1. Fri Oct 24 19:59:44 GMT 2003 MKIV Start Patrol **MLSO PROBLEM**: Fri Oct 24 20:18:46 GMT 2003 NOAA indicated that their network is up and it looks like our router is intermittent. Cycling power to the router to attempt to reset it. MKIV COMMENT: Fri Oct 24 20:46:47 GMT 2003 Centered O1. Fri Oct 24 20:47:03 GMT 2003 MKIV End Patrol Fri Oct 24 20:47:13 GMT 2003 MKIV Start Cal Fri Oct 24 21:06:49 GMT 2003 MKIV Start Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Oct 24 21:49:29 GMT 2003 In cirrus. **ECHO PROBLEM**: Fri Oct 24 21:49:56 GMT 2003 Discovered ECHO time was 2 minutes slow. GPS32 was not running. Program should show up as minimized on the taskbar. Restarted GPS32 following the published procedure. Time acquisition is timing out. Due to solar storm?? COMMENT: Fri Oct 24 21:52:56 GMT 2003 Got inquiries from Honolulu Star Bulletin and from KHON TV about the solar activity today. **** EVENT COMMENT ****: Fri Oct 24 21:55:08 GMT 2003 Large flare at central active region west of CMP from 2124 UT. **ECHO PROBLEM**: Fri Oct 24 22:07:04 GMT 2003 GPS problem was apparently due to the GPS hardware. I cycled power to it and restarted the GPS32 program using published instructions. Time updated. Set update interval back to 60 minutes and minimized the GPS32 window. **PSPT PROBLEM**: Fri Oct 24 22:23:09 GMT 2003 PSPT always picks times when we are busy running around to crash. Crashed at 2040 at clr blue -- hope to help hang. Killed/restarted. WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Oct 24 22:41:20 GMT 2003 In orographic clouds. Fri Oct 24 22:42:38 GMT 2003 MKIV End Patrol Fri Oct 24 22:43:58 GMT 2003 CHIP End Patrol Fri Oct 24 22:44:13 GMT 2003 PICS End Patrol COMMENT: Fri Oct 24 22:44:09 GMT 2003 Pausing observations. WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Oct 24 23:00:42 GMT 2003 Clouds real thick, closing domes as precaution. WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Oct 24 23:29:46 GMT 2003 In fog. **PSPT PROBLEM**: Sat Oct 25 01:13:44 GMT 2003 About the earlier comment about the transfers not occurring... Transfers (HD activity) begins when Shutdown ends. Transfer messages get written to the xterm window after Pspt program is exited. Since Pspt was not exited, there were no messages this morning, but the transfers did occur. PSPT COMMENT: Sat Oct 25 01:17:28 GMT 2003 Shutdown Pspt. WEATHER COMMENT: Sat Oct 25 01:32:04 GMT 2003 Still dark and foggy. Shutting down for the day. Sat Oct 25 01:32:39 GMT 2003 MkIV 19_59.rawmk4 20_32.rawmk4 21_15.rawmk4 21_48.rawmk4 22_24.rawmk4 20_02.rawmk4 20_35.rawmk4 21_18.rawmk4 21_51.rawmk4 22_27.rawmk4 20_05.rawmk4 20_37.rawmk4 21_21.rawmk4 21_53.rawmk4 22_30.rawmk4 20_08.rawmk4 20_40.rawmk4 21_24.rawmk4 21_56.rawmk4 22_32.rawmk4 20_11.rawmk4 20_43.rawmk4 21_27.rawmk4 21_59.rawmk4 22_35.rawmk4 20_14.rawmk4 20_50.rawmk4 21_30.rawmk4 22_02.rawmk4 c20_47.rawmk4 20_17.rawmk4 20_56.rawmk4 21_33.rawmk4 22_05.rawmk4 c20_53.rawmk4 20_20.rawmk4 21_02.rawmk4 21_36.rawmk4 22_08.rawmk4 c20_59.rawmk4 20_23.rawmk4 21_06.rawmk4 21_39.rawmk4 22_14.rawmk4 20_26.rawmk4 21_09.rawmk4 21_42.rawmk4 22_18.rawmk4 20_29.rawmk4 21_12.rawmk4 21_45.rawmk4 22_21.rawmk4