----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Sep 9 18:21:36 GMT 2013 Year: 13 Doy: 252 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Mon Sep 9 18:21:38 GMT 2013 Clear skies, temp 55f, wind 7mph from the east. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 9 18:21:50 GMT 2013 Started reinstalling ADR this morning. It sort of works, and I think I have the 3 sensors in the right place (clouds vs edge). I think it will take a few weeks to ring out exactly where they should end up. ___end___ Mon Sep 09 18:29:22 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol Mon Sep 09 19:30:24 GMT 2013 K-cor computer checking in Mon Sep 09 19:41:18 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:kcormlso-calibration.ini Mon Sep 09 19:46:38 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon Sep 09 19:46:50 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 9 19:48:17 GMT 2013 Shabar is back online but for some reason the DAQ for channel 5 is doign the wrong thing, it has a very low value that increases slightly over the aqusition process then flatlines. ___end___ Mon Sep 09 19:52:08 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 19:59:28 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 19:59:42 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:kcormlso-calibration.ini **KCOR PROBLEM COMMENT BY berkey **: Mon Sep 9 20:01:18 GMT 2013 When a script was trying to run "Stop Socketcam Averaging and Stop DAQ Output.vi we caught an error. Socketcam window says: Acquisition has been aborted Acquisition has been aborted Brd1 circular acquisition error has occured. Brd0 circular acquisition error has occoured. When I type quit into socketcam I get a BufIn Error Error In Function Bufin INternal Error. An error as occured within the working thread. Look at error stack to find error. Message ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 9 20:04:57 GMT 2013 Rebooting Kcor incase the problem was a built up socketcam thing ___end___ Mon Sep 09 20:19:32 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC\kcor\mlso-calibration.ini KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 9 20:18:32 GMT 2013 Trying another calibration after-reboot. ___end___ Mon Sep 09 20:24:30 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon Sep 09 20:24:39 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 9 20:24:15 GMT 2013 After finishing a calibration (which I think worked) I started a synoptic observation and got an: Error-50103 occured at K-Cor -Stop Socketcam Averaging adn Stop DAQ Output.vi Possible reasons: NI Platform Servcies: The specified resource is reserved. The operation could not be completeled as specified. Task Name: _unnamedTask<20> Socketcam tasks says it is (Not Responding) Socketcam input window shows no error message and continues to take more data. ___end___ **KCOR PROBLEM COMMENT BY berkey **: Mon Sep 9 20:29:42 GMT 2013 After clicking STOP on the error message the socket cam window said: socketcam recv error socketcam RecvSignalsThread ending socketcam recv error socketcam recv error socketcam recv error socketcam recv error socketcam recv error socketcam recv error socketcam recv error socketcam RecvSignalsThread ending socketcam recv error socketcam RecvSignalsThread ending socketcam recv error socketcam RecvSignalsThread ending socketcam RecvSignalsThread ending socketcam RecvSignalsThread ending socketcam RecvSignalsThread ending socketcam RecvSignalsThread ending socketcam RecvSignalsThread ending socketcam RecvSignalsThread ending socketcam recv error socketcam recv error socketcam RecvSignalsThread ending socketcam RecvSignalsThread ending Acquisition has been aborted Acquisition has been aborted Brd1 circular acquisition error has occured. Brd0 circular acquisition error has occured. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 9 20:30:59 GMT 2013 reconfiguring main dome ___end___ Mon Sep 09 20:37:07 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 20:37:33 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 20:41:11 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcor\mlso-calibration.ini Mon Sep 09 20:46:45 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon Sep 09 20:47:08 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 20:49:48 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 20:50:11 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 20:50:13 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 20:51:39 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 20:51:42 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 9 20:50:18 GMT 2013 I didn't do a k-cor focus this morning. So far I have only been testing running various bits of the code ___end___ Mon Sep 09 20:54:07 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 20:55:18 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcor\mlso-calibration.ini Mon Sep 09 21:00:13 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon Sep 09 21:00:23 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcor\mlso-calibration.ini Mon Sep 09 21:05:04 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon Sep 09 21:05:07 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 21:22:30 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Mon Sep 09 21:22:31 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol Mon Sep 09 22:11:43 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 9 22:10:25 GMT 2013 Added a cardboard 1.5" apature above the kcor fore-optics enclosure with the goal of reducing the light down so we can run the cameras with longer exposures. So we can test some camera/modulator timming. One though is the camera is reading out before the modulator has time to fully respond. ___end___ Mon Sep 09 22:16:04 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 22:24:05 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 22:28:33 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 9 22:19:56 GMT 2013 Full Well % was was way to high. >1e4... not sure if this is meaninful. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 9 22:28:40 GMT 2013 Data from 22:11:43 to 22:16:04 is 1.5" apature 2ms test Data from 22:24:05 to 22:28:33 is 1.5" apature 5ms test ___end___ Mon Sep 09 22:32:56 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 9 22:32:00 GMT 2013 Starting 1.5" apature 2ms test with polarizer in the beam. ___end___ Mon Sep 09 22:34:48 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 22:35:13 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 9 22:33:48 GMT 2013 Starting 1.5" apature 5ms test with polarizer in the beam. ___end___ Mon Sep 09 22:36:43 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 23:12:44 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcor\mlso-calibration.ini Mon Sep 09 23:20:53 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcoren-test.ini Mon Sep 09 23:38:47 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcoren-test.ini Mon Sep 09 23:42:19 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon Sep 09 23:42:22 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcoren-test.ini Mon Sep 09 23:45:47 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon Sep 09 23:45:50 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 09 23:50:25 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Sep 10 00:00:57 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Sep 10 00:01:37 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Tue Sep 10 00:17:39 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Sep 10 00:15:48 GMT 2013 After a lot of starts/stops/restarts of the code I am in a weird place where I tend to get the dialog asking where I want to save the script output when I start the VI. I didn't think labview was capiable of remembering that kind of thing between indivdiual executions of the code ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Sep 10 00:17:32 GMT 2013 Just refocused the O1 based on Alfreds script. (I didn't try a camera move). ___end___ Tue Sep 10 00:18:30 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Tue Sep 10 00:18:43 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Sep 10 00:18:39 GMT 2013 Says cover is in the beam. I am pretty sure this is not the case. ___end___ Tue Sep 10 00:20:03 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Tue Sep 10 00:24:10 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Sep 10 00:25:55 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Sep 10 00:24:07 GMT 2013 Added a check to make the Timeout state of the synoptic VI, pol and update the Lens cover into the fits header. ___end___ Tue Sep 10 00:27:38 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcor\mlso-calibration.ini KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Sep 10 00:28:30 GMT 2013 While running a calibration script. Got a funny pop up error: K-Cor - Stop Socketcam Averaging and Stop DAQ output.vi Task Name: _unnamedTask<8> Not sure what this means. ___end___ Tue Sep 10 00:31:04 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Sep 10 00:30:09 GMT 2013 There were a few popups with similar text followed by a crash: Error -50103 occurred at K-Cor - Stop Socketcam Averaging and Stop DAQ Output.vi Possible reason(s): NI Platform Services: The specified resource is reserved. The operation could not be completed as specified. Task Name: _unnamedTask<1A> ___end___ Tue Sep 10 00:36:26 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcoren-test.ini GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Sep 10 00:37:51 GMT 2013 Looks like Kcor and Comp both drift w.r.t the guider in the afternoon. Issue is mostly in DEC. I am not sure if the geometry but they bot look to have error of similar magnitude so I assume this could be the same error ___end___ Tue Sep 10 00:40:36 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Tue Sep 10 00:42:03 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Sep 10 00:44:00 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Sep 10 00:46:01 GMT 2013 I have been tweaking guider setpoing to make comp happy(er), looks like RA .02 and Dec -.04 are perfect for comp but to big for kcor ___end___ Tue Sep 10 00:53:20 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Sep 10 00:56:55 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Tue Sep 10 00:57:31 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Sep 10 00:59:18 GMT 2013 After a little bit of investigation it looks like CoMP drifts w.r.t. kcor and the guider. We will have to get the auto-center occulter working again to follow the drift over the course of a day. ___end___ Tue Sep 10 01:01:43 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Tue Sep 10 01:06:04 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Tue Sep 10 01:07:35 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcoren-test.ini Tue Sep 10 01:08:54 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Tue Sep 10 01:09:33 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcoren-test.ini Tue Sep 10 01:08:41 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol Tue Sep 10 01:10:38 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Tue Sep 10 01:13:21 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcoren-test.ini Tue Sep 10 01:14:33 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Tue Sep 10 01:15:54 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcoren-test.ini Tue Sep 10 01:17:56 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Tue Sep 10 01:26:55 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcoren-test.ini Tue Sep 10 01:28:58 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Tue Sep 10 01:30:22 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcoren-test.ini Tue Sep 10 01:32:25 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Tue Sep 10 01:39:14 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration scriptC:\kcoren-test.ini Tue Sep 10 01:42:21 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Tue Sep 10 01:47:45 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Sep 10 01:48:20 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Sep 10 01:57:32 GMT 2013 Edited the Make Single Fits Header (SGL).vi Changed Location to "Mauna Loa", TELESCOP to "MLSO Spar". And changed the logic states of in and out for COVER, DIFFUSER,CALPOL,DARKSHUT. Every where else in the programing IN=1 OUT=0; but in this vi the states where reversed. ___end___ Tue Sep 10 02:08:13 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration script: C:\kcoren-test.ini Tue Sep 10 02:08:57 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Tue Sep 10 02:10:29 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration script: C:\kcor\ben-test.ini Tue Sep 10 02:11:16 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Tue Sep 10 02:46:44 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Tue Sep 10 03:02:50 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol Tue Sep 10 03:02:54 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol Tue Sep 10 03:02:58 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Sep 10 03:16:00 GMT 2013 The synotpic code should not properly deal with the dark shutter buttons and feedback LED's. I was supprised to find that in the digital IO bit 0 seemed to be useful for reading and writting shutter 0's state. But for shutter 1, I needed bit 1 to move it and bit 2 to read back state information. I need to do more research on what bit is what. ___end___