----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Dec 27 17:03:21 GMT 2019 Year: 19 Doy: 361 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Fri Dec 27 17:10:40 GMT 2019 Temp 39F with windspeed at about 8-13mph from the South. Clouds coming from the South, currently covering the start of the Suns' path this morning. Will wait for better conditions before opening. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Fri Dec 27 17:59:03 GMT 2019 PM Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Dec 27 17:59:04 GMT 2019 Windows opened upstairs ___end___ Fri Dec 27 17:59:58 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete Fri Dec 27 18:00:50 GMT 2019 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Fri Dec 27 18:04:28 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Fri Dec 27 18:03:37 GMT 2019 Got the bufin error again. There are two errors that popped up, which means I must have skipped pasted it last time when trying to get socketcam to work. They are as follows: Bufin Error: Error in Function Bufin Internal Error. An error has occured within the working thread. Look at error stack to find error. Bufin Error: Error in function CircularWorkerThread. The worker thread has timed out. Try increasing the time out value in the camera file. I think I know what might be triggering this error, when we hit our new buttons to switch between screens, sometimes it acts like the button is being held down on the previous screen and it causes something to move constantly, even when you switch back. You have to hit the same button you switch back to to get it to stop freaking out so to speak. One indicator is that at the top of the screen, the channel and name of the screen doesn't pop up when you switch. But I think this might be the cause of the bufin error I've been seeing. Sorry, it's hard to describe. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Dec 27 18:39:28 GMT 2019 Looks like the anium script that launched the NRGF animiations on the mountain was doing a search gifs with the string l1 in the filename. Recently the pipeline started calling these files L2 so no images where found. The anium script has been change to now look for the pattern nrgf.gif which seems consistant acorss the l1/l2 (L1.5?) naming patterns the pipeline has produced over time. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Dec 27 19:37:35 GMT 2019 Going to delay calibrations as it looks like a prominence has been launching since before we started this morning. ___end___ Fri Dec 27 19:45:29 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Fri Dec 27 19:45:33 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Fri Dec 27 19:45:58 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete Fri Dec 27 19:45:54 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Dec 27 20:12:08 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Fri Dec 27 20:13:58 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete Fri Dec 27 20:13:56 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Dec 27 20:12:13 GMT 2019 Looks like Kcor images are looking polarized again, restarting the K-Cor Synoptic Acquistion GUI to see if that helps. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Dec 27 20:17:09 GMT 2019 Sky got bright between 19:44:46 UT and 19:57:40UT but pushed through it. ___end___ Fri Dec 27 20:44:06 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Fri Dec 27 20:44:16 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Fri Dec 27 20:44:36 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete Fri Dec 27 20:44:32 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Dec 27 20:53:08 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Fri Dec 27 20:53:22 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Fri Dec 27 20:53:42 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete Fri Dec 27 20:53:39 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Dec 27 21:20:11 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Dec 27 21:20:14 GMT 2019 Clouds coming in from the South, Kcor stopped for a bit. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Dec 27 21:58:11 GMT 2019 Some clouds look a little low, closing the dome just in case ___end___ ****EVENT COMMENT BY waters**** : Fri Dec 27 21:59:43 GMT 2019 At PA 285, it looks like a prominence may have started launching before start-up this morning, however, it is hard to tell once the aerosols picked up. Can be seen in both GONG and KCor. ___end___ Fri Dec 27 22:36:26 GMT 2019 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Fri Dec 27 22:38:19 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete Fri Dec 27 22:38:22 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Dec 27 22:47:08 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Fri Dec 27 22:47:21 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Dec 27 22:48:36 GMT 2019 Low clouds came in fast, Kcor stopped and dome closed ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Sat Dec 28 00:25:49 GMT 2019 Nice morning with low aerosols but by around 10:00am HST, they came in a bit heavy and stayed. Clouds came in in the afternoon and stayed. ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: waters