----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Jul 17 16:17:16 GMT 2016 Year: 16 Doy: 199 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Sun Jul 17 16:17:19 GMT 2016 Temp 43F with windspeed at about 5mph from the West-Southwest. Scattered bands of cirrus are across the sky but the Suns' path is clear. Hopefully it'll stay that way, even just for a little bit. ___end___ Sun Jul 17 16:53:03 GMT 2016 SGS Alignment complete Sun Jul 17 16:55:56 GMT 2016 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00007.cbk GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Sun Jul 17 17:03:27 GMT 2016 Sky too bright for Kcor and Compe, instruments idled for now. ___end___ Sun Jul 17 17:05:24 GMT 2016 CoMP Paused for clouds Sun Jul 17 20:04:30 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Sun Jul 17 20:04:34 GMT 2016 CoMP Restarted from pause GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Sun Jul 17 20:04:42 GMT 2016 Started taking data; it's not great data, you can some of the corona. Hopefully it'll get better throughout the morning/day. ___end___ Sun Jul 17 20:46:53 GMT 2016 SGS Alignment complete Sun Jul 17 21:50:55 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sun Jul 17 21:51:11 GMT 2016 CoMP Paused for clouds GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Sun Jul 17 21:51:31 GMT 2016 Clouds are coming in; Kcor synoptic GUI was working but MC4U GUI completely locked up and wouldn't respond. Luckily, the cloud passed quickly and I ran upstairs to move the spar out of the slot since more clouds were going to cross. Restarted the Kcor computer and was able to close the lens. Scary... ___end___ Sun Jul 17 23:17:12 GMT 2016 CoMP Restarted from pause Sun Jul 17 23:17:13 GMT 2016 COMP End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Sun Jul 17 23:18:19 GMT 2016 Fog close to the West of the observatory; dome closed. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Sun Jul 17 23:26:07 GMT 2016 Weather looks bleak; the clouds coming up look exceptionally dark and I thought I felt some moisture when I opened the door. Going to head down early. See everybody Tuesday! ___end___