----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Sep 26 16:40:26 GMT 2014 Year: 14 Doy: 269 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Fri Sep 26 16:41:03 GMT 2014 Lots of cirrus populating the sky at present. Temp is 45F with windspeed at 18mph with guts up to 26mph from the South-Southeast. Will wait for clearer skies to start up Comp and Kcor. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Sep 26 17:20:46 GMT 2014 Clouds are a bit thick for Pspt. ___end___ Fri Sep 26 17:29:52 GMT 2014: PSPT Start Patrol Fri Sep 26 17:42:41 GMT 2014: PSPT Abort Patrol Fri Sep 26 17:43:07 GMT 2014: PSPT Start Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Sep 26 17:50:33 GMT 2014 Clouds have thinned a bit, Pspt restarted. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Sep 26 18:51:47 GMT 2014 Updated bash on ulua ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Sep 26 20:07:50 GMT 2014 Have a break in the cirrus, going to try and start up Comp and Kcor. ___end___ Fri Sep 26 20:24:26 GMT 2014 COMP Start Patrol Fri Sep 26 20:26:21 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Sep 26 20:24:33 GMT 2014 The gusting made it a bit hard to center the spar. Waited for the wind to calm down before trying again. Windspeed is currently staying below 10mph. Started everything up. ___end___ Fri Sep 26 20:42:11 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Fri Sep 26 20:42:12 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg.ini GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Sep 26 20:45:43 GMT 2014 Some cirrus crept up during Kcor calibration. Will do again when a window opens for it. ___end___ Fri Sep 26 20:58:16 GMT 2014 KCOR End Calibration Script Fri Sep 26 20:58:39 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 26 22:15:52 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Fri Sep 26 22:15:54 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg.ini Fri Sep 26 22:31:55 GMT 2014 KCOR End Calibration Script Fri Sep 26 22:32:10 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 26 23:22:04 GMT 2014 COMP End Patrol Fri Sep 26 23:23:12 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Fri Sep 26 23:24:25 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 26 23:24:16 GMT 2014 COMP Start Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Sep 26 23:23:56 GMT 2014 SGS adjusted. ___end___ Fri Sep 26 23:41:25 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Fri Sep 26 23:41:15 GMT 2014 COMP End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Sep 26 23:41:36 GMT 2014 Thick clouds coming up from the Southwest Comp, Kcor and Shabar idled. ___end___ Sat Sep 27 00:19:32 GMT 2014: PSPT Abort Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Sat Sep 27 00:19:34 GMT 2014 Seems like the thick clouds are here to stay, Pspt idled. ___end___ ****EVENT COMMENT BY waters**** : Sat Sep 27 00:46:32 GMT 2014 A lot of activity going on around the limb of the Sun today, starting from this morning around 18:18UT. At between PA 165-180, there is a prominence leaning to the left before the start of the day and around 19:29UT it collapses and reforms leaning to the right at 20:57UT. Between PA 105-115, at 20:09UT a prominence loop can be seen starting to rip the top part of the loop. And at PA 90, lots of surges, a really nice on at 00:11UT. ___end___