----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Jan 31 17:33:09 GMT 2013 Year: 13 Doy: 031 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: Thu Jan 31 17:41:27 GMT 2013 temp 35f, wind 5mph from W, clear skies with haze in the saddle thining but extending above the observatory. road was VERY icy ___end___ NOTE BY BEN: Thu Jan 31 17:42:41 GMT 2013 Creating and testing new user accounts today, this morning I trying waters ___end___ Thu Jan 31 17:45:06 GMT 2013 CHIP Start Patrol ****EVENT COMMENT BY BEN****: Thu Jan 31 17:43:33 GMT 2013 Just missed an interesting prominace seen in gong (but not ML gong) halpha, prominace launched at about 16:30Ut from the disk near PA60 and can be seen rotating as it leaves the limb ___end___ Thu Jan 31 17:45:18 GMT 2013: PSPT Start Patrol Thu Jan 31 17:45:21 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol Thu Jan 31 17:49:53 GMT 2013 MKIV Start Patrol **CoMP PROBLEM COMMENT BY BEN**: Thu Jan 31 17:56:44 GMT 2013 CoMP focus was way out out this mornnig. ___end___ Thu Jan 31 18:00:48 GMT 2013 CHIP LSD Thu Jan 31 18:02:42 GMT 2013 CHIP End LSD Thu Jan 31 18:02:48 GMT 2013 CHIP BiasLSD Thu Jan 31 18:03:37 GMT 2013 CHIP End BiasLSD Thu Jan 31 18:03:43 GMT 2013 CHIP Bias Thu Jan 31 18:04:33 GMT 2013 CHIP End Bias Thu Jan 31 18:04:38 GMT 2013 CHIP ReStart Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY BEN: Thu Jan 31 18:04:28 GMT 2013 I kept running focus, and the focus postion kept going up well past 40,000. Restarted CoMP VI and re-ran focus routines; best focus found at 30,600 (a normal position) ___end___ Thu Jan 31 18:06:28 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol **CoMP PROBLEM COMMENT BY BEN**: Thu Jan 31 18:11:19 GMT 2013 Comp read lakeshore VI crashed; VISA error while trying to read serial ___end___ MKIV COMMENT BY BEN: Thu Jan 31 18:34:16 GMT 2013 Added accounts waters and rose to oopu to allow the mk4 gif pipeline to create realtime images ___end___ Thu Jan 31 18:49:50 GMT 2013 MKIV End Patrol Thu Jan 31 19:09:43 GMT 2013 MKIV End Cal Thu Jan 31 19:09:49 GMT 2013 MKIV Start Patrol NOTE BY BEN: Thu Jan 31 19:31:06 GMT 2013 Shabar looks really noisy. Not obvious why. ___end___ Thu Jan 31 19:52:15 GMT 2013 MKIV End Patrol Thu Jan 31 20:05:58 GMT 2013 MKIV Start Cal MKIV COMMENT BY BEN: Thu Jan 31 20:06:02 GMT 2013 Starting mk4 height mask test ___end___ Thu Jan 31 20:24:42 GMT 2013 MKIV End Cal Thu Jan 31 20:24:55 GMT 2013 MKIV Start Cal MKIV COMMENT BY BEN: Thu Jan 31 20:24:45 GMT 2013 It is interesting to note that in at least one CW scan, the height of the end position is about 1/2 of a line width above the start of the scan. Looking at the sudo-cal gifs this seems to hold for every scan taken so far during height scan cals ___end___ Thu Jan 31 20:43:39 GMT 2013 MKIV End Cal Thu Jan 31 20:43:45 GMT 2013 MKIV Start Patrol Thu Jan 31 20:50:03 GMT 2013 MKIV End Patrol MKIV COMMENT BY BEN: Thu Jan 31 20:57:39 GMT 2013 Height mask test done, maske removed. ___end___ NOTE BY BEN: Thu Jan 31 20:57:56 GMT 2013 Starting shabar seeing test. Both doors are propped open. Wind is 5mph from the NW, temp 42f, standing in the door way I can feel a defanite flow into the dome through the door ___end___ Thu Jan 31 20:59:11 GMT 2013 MKIV Start Patrol NOTE BY BEN: Thu Jan 31 20:59:07 GMT 2013 Clouds starting to appear north to the north and at slightly lower altitude ___end___ Thu Jan 31 21:06:56 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Thu Jan 31 21:06:58 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol NOTE BY BEN: Thu Jan 31 21:11:14 GMT 2013 Spar dec motion appears large on the o-scope. Chip seems to confrim ___end___ NOTE BY BEN: Thu Jan 31 21:15:32 GMT 2013 Mk4 starting to see clouds ___end___ Thu Jan 31 21:23:16 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Thu Jan 31 21:29:05 GMT 2013 MKIV End Patrol Thu Jan 31 21:31:34 GMT 2013 CHIP End Patrol NOTE BY BEN: Thu Jan 31 21:30:45 GMT 2013 Closing domes due to fog near domes ___end___ Thu Jan 31 21:33:28 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol Thu Jan 31 21:33:40 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol NOTE BY BEN: Fri Feb 1 01:19:09 GMT 2013 Spar belly plate just below the rotation hub was removed/reinstalled to get more pictures of the DEC drive for Scott. ___end___ NOTE BY BEN: Fri Feb 1 01:20:49 GMT 2013 Looks Lisa account works. ___end___ Fri Feb 1 01:21:19 GMT 2013 MkIV 17_49.rawmk4 18_29.rawmk4 19_18.rawmk4 20_27.rawmk4 21_22.rawmk4 17_54.rawmk4 18_31.rawmk4 19_21.rawmk4 20_34.rawmk4 21_25.rawmk4 17_57.rawmk4 18_34.rawmk4 19_24.rawmk4 20_40.rawmk4 c18_49.rawmk4 17_59.rawmk4 18_37.rawmk4 19_27.rawmk4 20_43.rawmk4 c18_56.rawmk4 18_02.rawmk4 18_40.rawmk4 19_30.rawmk4 20_46.rawmk4 c19_03.rawmk4 18_05.rawmk4 18_43.rawmk4 19_33.rawmk4 20_59.rawmk4 c20_05.rawmk4 18_08.rawmk4 18_46.rawmk4 19_36.rawmk4 21_02.rawmk4 c20_12.rawmk4 18_11.rawmk4 18_53.rawmk4 19_39.rawmk4 21_05.rawmk4 c20_18.rawmk4 18_14.rawmk4 18_59.rawmk4 19_42.rawmk4 21_08.rawmk4 c20_24.rawmk4 18_17.rawmk4 19_06.rawmk4 19_48.rawmk4 21_10.rawmk4 c20_31.rawmk4 18_20.rawmk4 19_09.rawmk4 20_09.rawmk4 21_13.rawmk4 c20_37.rawmk4 18_23.rawmk4 19_12.rawmk4 20_15.rawmk4 21_16.rawmk4 18_26.rawmk4 19_15.rawmk4 20_21.rawmk4 21_19.rawmk4