----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue May 31 16:28:34 GMT 2005 Year: 05 Doy: 151 Observer: koon WEATHER COMMENT: Tue May 31 16:28:37 GMT 2005 Medium to thick cirrostratus, wind=10 mph from the SSE, temp=44F. ___end___ COMMENT: Tue May 31 16:31:56 GMT 2005 Spar isn't tracking yet. ___end___ Tue May 31 17:10:32 GMT 2005 CHIP Start Patrol Tue May 31 17:10:45 GMT 2005 PICS Start Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Tue May 31 17:10:53 GMT 2005 Spar is barely tracking now, starting some instruments. ___end___ Tue May 31 17:58:53 GMT 2005 CHIP End Patrol Tue May 31 17:59:17 GMT 2005 PICS End Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Tue May 31 17:58:47 GMT 2005 Getting that type of swirly looking cloud that is actually raining at high altitude but usually the rain doesn't hit the ground, sometimes the rain does hit the ground so I've closed the domes until this type of cloud passes over. ___end___ **GONG PROBLEM**: Tue May 31 20:29:31 GMT 2005 Going down to shelter to fix the typical problem. ___end___ **GONG PROBLEM**: Tue May 31 21:43:58 GMT 2005 Back from shelter, it was very difficult restarting the obs, but once again it restarted the first try after turning off Data and Instrument chassis and rotating the camera full CCW and then back a little of the limit - this always works for some reason, the only time it didn't work for me was when the camera PS was left on during the CCW rotation because it was plugged in separate power from normal and didn't go off with the Data chassis like usual. ___end___ Tue May 31 22:56:59 GMT 2005 CHIP Start Patrol Tue May 31 22:57:16 GMT 2005 PICS Start Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Tue May 31 22:57:09 GMT 2005 The high clouds are thinning out but lower clouds are getting closer, opened domes and restarted instruments. ___end___ Tue May 31 22:58:11 GMT 2005 MKIV Start Patrol **PSPT PROBLEM**: Tue May 31 23:13:04 GMT 2005 RA clutch was loose, tightened and now doing gdr ephmcal. ___end___ WEATHER COMMENT: Tue May 31 23:26:55 GMT 2005 Low clouds are passing over, light fog may happen soon. ___end___ WEATHER COMMENT: Tue May 31 23:39:51 GMT 2005 Fog blowing through, closed domes. ___end___ Tue May 31 23:55:55 GMT 2005 CHIP End Patrol Tue May 31 23:56:08 GMT 2005 PICS End Patrol Tue May 31 23:57:18 GMT 2005 MKIV End Patrol Wed Jun 1 00:51:56 GMT 2005 MKIV Start Cal Wed Jun 1 00:52:14 GMT 2005 CHIP Start Patrol Wed Jun 1 00:52:26 GMT 2005 PICS Start Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Jun 1 00:52:37 GMT 2005 Nice hole in the clouds and fog, opened up and restarted all, will try for a mk4 cal too. ___end___ **PSPT PROBLEM**: Wed Jun 1 01:00:17 GMT 2005 Cable for dome shutter wasn't tied off to inside of dome like normal, cable can snag the telescope when that happens, it needs to be tied back, I added some string to see if that is a good distance then reattached the cable. ___end___ Wed Jun 1 01:10:41 GMT 2005 MKIV End Cal PSPT COMMENT: Wed Jun 1 01:14:52 GMT 2005 Observing. ___end___ MKIV COMMENT: Wed Jun 1 01:15:17 GMT 2005 Finally got a few good scans. ___end___ Wed Jun 1 01:46:55 GMT 2005 CHIP End Patrol Wed Jun 1 01:47:22 GMT 2005 PICS End Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Jun 1 01:52:33 GMT 2005 Clouds and fog are moving in again, shutting down. ___end___ **GONG PROBLEM**: Wed Jun 1 01:52:54 GMT 2005 Obs stalled again, will restart it on my way down the mountain. ___end___ NICE CHIP IMAGE: 0140 NICE MK4 IMAGE: 0101 NICE PICSLIMB IMAGE: 2331 NICE PICSDISC IMAGE: 1737 Wed Jun 1 02:05:10 GMT 2005 MkIV 00_55.rawmk4 23_07.rawmk4 23_24.rawmk4 23_42.rawmk4 c00_58.rawmk4 01_01.rawmk4 23_10.rawmk4 23_27.rawmk4 23_45.rawmk4 c01_04.rawmk4 01_07.rawmk4 23_13.rawmk4 23_30.rawmk4 23_48.rawmk4 22_58.rawmk4 23_15.rawmk4 23_33.rawmk4 23_51.rawmk4 23_01.rawmk4 23_18.rawmk4 23_36.rawmk4 23_54.rawmk4 23_04.rawmk4 23_21.rawmk4 23_39.rawmk4 c00_51.rawmk4