----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Apr 14 16:23:43 GMT 2014 Year: 14 Doy: 104 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Mon Apr 14 16:23:45 GMT 2014 temp 34f, wind 20mph from SE, clear skies with some haze up to the level of the observatory looks like a very weak inversion layer today. ___end___ Mon Apr 14 16:45:56 GMT 2014: PSPT Start Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Apr 14 17:06:33 GMT 2014 Kcor looks very washed out, I am not sure if this is just the haze level or something in the instrument. Seems odd becasue CoMP looks nonimal. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Apr 14 17:25:26 GMT 2014 Following up on the last comment, the sky is VERY bright right now with a lot of haze up here. The engineering data plots show some low corona, but I am not clicking the science button due to the high background. ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Apr 14 18:10:02 GMT 2014 Pulled CoMP O1 for cleaning. ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Apr 14 18:45:48 GMT 2014 O1 reinstalled, looks cleaner now but not perfectly clean. A lot of dust got deposited between cleaning and install. ___end___ Mon Apr 14 19:20:12 GMT 2014: PSPT Start Patrol Mon Apr 14 20:09:04 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Apr 14 20:09:33 GMT 2014 Kcor o1 cleaned, looks better then CoMP ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Apr 14 20:09:48 GMT 2014 Lower shutter moved down. There is alot of wind shake on the spar. ___end___ Mon Apr 14 20:59:46 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Mon Apr 14 21:00:30 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Apr 14 21:02:52 GMT 2014 Trying a couple things to get the MC4u controller vi to read the modulator tempature. Looks like it has started returning E123\n instead of the tempature the first time you ask it but the tempature the second or third time it is asked. A little loop has been added to ask a copule of times hopefully getting an answer before moving on. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Apr 14 21:31:50 GMT 2014 Winds increasing sustained at 25 with guys to 35+ fomr the ENE ___end___ Mon Apr 14 21:48:31 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Mon Apr 14 21:48:31 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg.ini Mon Apr 14 22:04:16 GMT 2014 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon Apr 14 22:04:32 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Apr 14 22:04:33 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Apr 14 23:54:03 GMT 2014 Looks like the southern artifact assoicated with the shutter/bandpass filter tilt is back again. Was the O1 installed incorrectly? ___end___ Tue Apr 15 00:20:40 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Tue Apr 15 00:22:12 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Apr 15 00:22:24 GMT 2014 Re-aligned comp ___end___ Tue Apr 15 00:45:50 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Apr 15 00:48:37 GMT 2014 Re-aligned SGS again; this time I dialed out a drift between Kcor and CoMP, previous alignments CoMP occulter wasn't moved. ___end___ Tue Apr 15 00:51:57 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Apr 15 02:32:02 GMT 2014: PSPT Abort Patrol Tue Apr 15 02:32:08 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Tue Apr 15 02:32:06 GMT 2014: PSPT Abort Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Apr 15 02:51:23 GMT 2014 Checked the seating of the O1 housing, looks good against the rest of the instrument. ___end___