----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Dec 11 16:53:26 GMT 2019 Year: 19 Doy: 345 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Wed Dec 11 16:53:46 GMT 2019 Temp: 44.8f, Humidity: 23%, Pressure: 28.764in, Wind: 13mph from 150degs, Skies: clear ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 17:39:20 GMT 2019 Found the source of the erronous 'mid' values for the foreoptics. We do a check of the foreoptics state when the observing code starts. This call (like all move hardware state queires in kcor) is done asynchronously and were not waiting long enough to get current results and ended up reporting based on the deafult values of the mechims being both not in or out of the beam. It looks like it takes a fixed amount of time (between the old and new computers) to negioate a connection between labview and the ACS controller. But the new comptuer is so much faster at running the rest of the code that it collected the results from the state poll before the ACS connnection was completed. We now force a 300ms wait between creating a connection and collecting the results. This seems to give a lot of time buffer to collect the right results without costing too much wall clock time. Based on about 10 tests this looks to have compltely cleared up the 'mid' issues. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 17:54:42 GMT 2019 In yesterdays log there was a note that while trying to clear up the 'mid' issue a command on the MC4u was issued to move the foreoptics into the beam. This lead to the side effect of the Datatype changing from Science to enginnering in the header while the "Science Data" button/LED still appeared to be in scinece mode. Two changes were made to hopefully address. We no longer chagne the data type to enginnering when moving the foreoptics out of the beam with the MC4u gui. The data type will still automatically change when the optics are move out. And now if the fits Datatype value is engineering and the "Science data" is on the the "Scinece data" button LED will be set to false to update the obsever GUI to the actual state of the header. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 18:05:49 GMT 2019 PM Blew off Kcor O1 and opened the windows. ___end___ Wed Dec 11 18:12:04 GMT 2019 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Wed Dec 11 18:13:19 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 18:15:28 GMT 2019 Looks like the 'mid' code fixed described above didn't work. Diffuser and CALPOL started in 'mid'. Need to think about how to proceed with troubleshooting this. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 18:35:47 GMT 2019 Some sort ball seen moving off the disk near PA120 in the NRGF images. I think this is a slow moving aerosol or maybe particle dust on a lens. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 18:41:03 GMT 2019 Corona seems a bit more tilted today then what I remember for a while. ___end___ Wed Dec 11 18:58:33 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Wed Dec 11 18:58:33 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini Wed Dec 11 19:13:48 GMT 2019 KCOR End Calibration Script Wed Dec 11 19:14:04 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Dec 11 19:14:04 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 19:18:59 GMT 2019 Switching moonfish to xfce instead of gnome fixed the display transparency issues we have been seeing. Travis will make this the default. ___end___ Wed Dec 11 19:19:28 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Wed Dec 11 19:21:51 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete Wed Dec 11 19:21:34 GMT 2019 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Wed Dec 11 19:22:53 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol ****EVENT COMMENT BY berkey**** : Wed Dec 11 19:57:26 GMT 2019 Small fast promninance seen launching PA315 at about 18:30UT in Halpha. Looks like there could also be some activity in Kcor as well. ___end___ Wed Dec 11 21:12:24 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Wed Dec 11 21:14:11 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete Wed Dec 11 21:14:33 GMT 2019 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Wed Dec 11 21:15:37 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Dec 11 22:02:24 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Wed Dec 11 22:04:21 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 22:05:21 GMT 2019 Afternoon clouds starting to blow in. Pausing for a short peroid of time. ___end___ Wed Dec 11 22:10:29 GMT 2019 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Wed Dec 11 22:11:25 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Log Type BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 23:43:54 GMT 2019 Dome closed. ___end___ Thu Dec 12 00:01:07 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Dec 12 00:01:32 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Thu Dec 12 00:02:02 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Dec 12 00:03:03 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Dec 12 00:11:22 GMT 2019 I have been doing some testing of foreoptics fits values at startup and adding feedback to the "science data" button feed back to the observer. The "Science data" button appears to to do the right thing chaning from ON to off if somethign else changes the datatype in to enginnering. For the foreoptics we are now updating the FITS header to the curent state of the fore-opitcs from the prox sensors every 15 seconds. So the fits data should now be stale for at most 15 seconds. Testing seems to suggest *this* is the final fix of the 'mid' state bug. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Dec 12 01:08:16 GMT 2019 Nice morning poor afternoon due to aerosols. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Dec 12 01:09:44 GMT 2019 ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: berkey