Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Oct 4 16:39:10 GMT 1994 Year: 94 Doy: 277 Observer: koon WEATHER COMMENT: Tue Oct 4 16:39:18 GMT 1994 Mostly clear sky with some scattered cirrus clouds, wind ~5 mph from the southeast, temp ~40 F. LOW-L COMMENT: Tue Oct 4 16:44:25 GMT 1994 Started up on tape drive #0 which is the same one it finished a tape on last night, I should have waited until today to change the tape from drive #0 so the logic would work correctly and start writing data on drive #1. To avoid confusion I stopped the program and switched the tapes so the lowest numbered tape would be in drive #0 and therefore it would be the first tape written to. L00112 is in drive #0 and L00113 is in drive #1. Tue Oct 4 16:50:50 GMT 1994: Patrol Start WEATHER COMMENT: Tue Oct 4 16:55:26 GMT 1994 Cirrus visible in data. Tue Oct 4 17:02:56 GMT 1994: Calibration DPMON COMMENT: Tue Oct 4 17:14:20 GMT 1994 Objective wheel is running away, pausing to manually reset. Tue Oct 4 17:15:22 GMT 1994: Patrol End Tue Oct 4 17:27:46 GMT 1994: Patrol Start DPMON COMMENT: Tue Oct 4 17:27:50 GMT 1994 Although I eliminated the uneven illumination through the Daystar filter yesterday afternoon it is there this morning. Rotating the bench doesn`t affect the illumination gradient on the disk so something is changing as the spar rotates, maybe the coude mirror is at fault. I'll keep an eye on it to see if it will get better soon. Tue Oct 4 18:01:00 GMT 1994: Calibration DPMON COMMENT: Tue Oct 4 18:57:36 GMT 1994 Illumination through the Daystar filter is still uneven, I'll try to make it even for this time of day since this is when we get the best data. Pausing Patrol to work on Daystar and maybe O2A focusing. DPMON COMMENT: Tue Oct 4 19:50:01 GMT 1994 Daystar fairly eveenly illuminated, will start focusing O2A. Having lots of problems with optical wheel runaways, have been able to reset them without problems. WEATHER COMMENT: Tue Oct 4 20:29:46 GMT 1994 thin cirrostratus has moved in from the west. A tsunami generated by the 8.2 R. earthquake (in Japan) is predicted to hit Kauai about now and should hit the Big Island within 30 minutes. Kona is predicted to be hardest hit, I have a clear view of Kona from here so I'll check it out occasionally. WEATHER COMMENT: Tue Oct 4 21:54:07 GMT 1994 Tsunami warning has been cancelled, no big waves have been reported. WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Oct 5 00:27:31 GMT 1994 Thick orographic clouds, pausing MKIII. COMMENT: Wed Oct 5 01:25:49 GMT 1994 Activity report: QP: 46; 127; 245. No coronal activity. TAPES: MKIII: H00855 DPMON: P00175 LOW-L: L00112 in drive #0 Wed Oct 5 01:27:44 GMT 1994: Filemark SCAN-LOG SCAN-LOG 16:50:57. 10/4/94 DOY 277 17:11:45 17:14:58 17:18:12 17:21:25 17:24:40 17:27:53 17:31:08 17:34:21 17:37:36 17:40:49 17:44:04 17:47:17 17:50:31 17:53:44 17:56:58 18:00:10 18:03:24 18:06:36 18:09:50 18:13:02 18:16:15 18:19:27 1823 0 CL 18:26:31 1830 15CL 18:36:53 18:52:28 18:55:42 18:59:03 19:02:14 19:05:27 19:08:38 19:11:51 19:15:02 19:18:14 19:21:25 19:24:38 19:27:49 19:31:01 19:34:12 19:37:24 19:40:35 19:43:47 19:46:58 19:50:10 19:53:21 19:56:33 19:59:44 20:02:56 20:06:07 20:09:22 20:12:32 20:15:44 20:18:53 20:22:04 20:25:14 20:28:24 20:31:34 20:34:44 20:37:54 20:41:04 20:44:13 20:47:23 20:50:32 20:53:42 20:56:51 21:00:00 21:03:09 21:06:19 21:09:27 21:12:38 21:15:47 21:18:57 21:22:06 21:25:16 21:28:25 21:31:35 21:34:44 21:37:54 21:41:02 21:44:11 21:47:20 21:50:29 21:53:38 21:56:48 21:59:57 22:03:07 22:06:16 22:09:26 22:12:35 22:15:45 22:18:53 22:22:02 22:25:11 22:28:21 22:31:29 22:34:39 22:37:47 22:40:56 22:44:04 22:47:13 22:50:20 22:53:29 22:56:36 22:59:45 23:02:54 23:06:03 23:09:11 23:12:21 23:15:28 23:18:38 23:21:46 23:24:55 23:28:03 23:31:13 23:34:21 23:37:31 23:40:41 23:43:50 23:46:59 23:50:08 23:53:16 23:56:26 23:59:35 0:02:45 0:05:54 0:09:04 0:12:13 0:15:23 0:18:32 0:21:42 0:24:50 0 ERRORS OK