----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Jul 8 16:26:51 GMT 2021 Year: 21 Doy: 189 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Thu Jul 08 16:27:41 GMT 2021 Temp: 43.6f, Humidity: 15%, Pressure: 28.605in, Wind: 3mph from 188degs, Skies: patchy cirrus blowing in from the SW ___end___ UCoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jul 08 17:09:36 GMT 2021 Installed new camera baffles on the ucomp cameras. These baffles should provide a light tight connection between the pbs camera lenses and the threaded c-mounts on the front of the camera body. Seemes the baffle/felt provided enough compliance to match the cameras X-Y position w.r.t. to the PBS. It was a tight enough that camera focus spring couldnt over come resistance on its own. The camera needed to be pushed by hand up against its focus stop. Taking distortion data now. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jul 08 17:09:48 GMT 2021 PM Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jul 08 17:09:52 GMT 2021 PM Blew off UCoMP O1 ___end___ UCoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jul 08 17:12:49 GMT 2021 Bug fix in the occulter stage polling was applied. We had been trying to update the occulter in/out feedback to the occulter x/y floating point position. Based on the way the code was constructed applying a in/out flag to the floating point position values meant the floating values were overwritten with null values. We should now expect to start seeing occulter x-y positions in the headers. ___end___ UCoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jul 08 17:47:46 GMT 2021 ND filter in beam. Automatic occulter insertion disabled. re-taking ucomp focus data ___end___ UCoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jul 08 17:55:05 GMT 2021 To false starts on the find_focus menu. I forgot the menu assumed the occulter and cover were out, but the scripts didn't command the moves. First start had the cover and occulter in. Second start had the occulter in. Third time seems correct so far. ___end___ Thu Jul 08 18:05:11 GMT 2021 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jul 08 18:19:58 GMT 2021 PM Blew off Kcor Field Lens to try and address blob seen in the south. ___end___ UCoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jul 08 18:20:34 GMT 2021 automatic saftey shutter logic restored and Nd filter removed. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jul 08 19:31:24 GMT 2021 Pausing for clouds ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jul 08 23:07:48 GMT 2021 PM UCoMP O1 cleaned with first contact. ___end___ UCoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jul 08 23:48:14 GMT 2021 Testing new feature to capture ucomp log items in the main mlso daylog. Dome is closed so the next few entries are just tests. ___end___ Thu Jul 08 23:48:01 GMT 2021 Running UCOMP Cookbook 530_Scan.ckb Thu Jul 08 23:48:31 GMT 2021 UCoMP Paused for clouds Thu Jul 08 23:54:01 GMT 2021 UCoMP Restarted from pause UCoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jul 09 01:02:17 GMT 2021 UCoMP log testing done. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jul 09 01:09:54 GMT 2021 Low clouds and cirrus cleared opening dome. ___end___ Fri Jul 09 01:10:20 GMT 2021 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jul 09 01:11:54 GMT 2021 Looks like sky is still a little too bright for observations. Pausing for now. ___end___ Fri Jul 09 01:27:59 GMT 2021 Running UCOMP Cookbook all_coronal_7_flats.ckb Fri Jul 09 02:10:45 GMT 2021 Running UCOMP Cookbook all_coronal_7_flats.ckb Fri Jul 09 02:17:06 GMT 2021 Running UCOMP Cookbook all_coronal_7_flats.ckb GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jul 09 02:26:15 GMT 2021 Skies never got coronal again after ~19:30 ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: berkey