Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Sep 9 16:40:01 GMT 1994 Year: 94 Doy: 252 Observer: yasukawa WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 16:40:23 GMT 1994 Cool, Clear at the moment, extensive altocumulus deck just above sun extends to west horizon. Light south breeze. Temp = 46F. Fri Sep 9 16:49:37 GMT 1994: Patrol Start MKIII COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 16:49:44 GMT 1994 Wiped front surface of O1 with optical wipe (dry), and brushed it off. Looks much better-no streaks. Fri Sep 9 17:02:01 GMT 1994: Calibration LOW-L COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 17:05:12 GMT 1994 L00103 was complete and popped out. Removed it and loaded L00105 into unit 0. WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 17:09:03 GMT 1994 In altocumulus deck. COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 17:09:49 GMT 1994 Dusted off front filters of sky tx telescope and spar guider. COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 17:10:34 GMT 1994 Stopped MKIII and DPMON while awaiting altocumulus burn-off. COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 18:40:12 GMT 1994 Altocumulus starting to break up. Reconfigured dome slot even though MKIII is now partially domed out yet by the bottom shutter segment. Brushed front surface of MKIII O1. Fri Sep 9 18:46:44 GMT 1994: Patrol Start COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 18:50:21 GMT 1994 MKIII and DPMON observations resuming. Still in broken altocumulus. Fri Sep 9 19:02:00 GMT 1994: Calibration WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 19:19:42 GMT 1994 Altocumulus now only scattered. May start getting complete coronal scans. WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 19:30:19 GMT 1994 Altostratus forming overhead. WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 19:43:05 GMT 1994 Clear. Fri Sep 9 20:02:02 GMT 1994: Calibration MKIII COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 20:07:24 GMT 1994 Finished calibrating channel 1. Skipping dark scan this time until channnel 0 calibration. MKIII COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 20:10:34 GMT 1994 Calibrating channel 0 DPMON COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 20:19:57 GMT 1994 Reconfigured to disc preferred mode. WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 20:28:50 GMT 1994 Sky getting bright and it has been quite noisy. WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 20:41:10 GMT 1994 cirrostratus forming overheaad. DPMON COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 20:43:37 GMT 1994 Abundant tape I/O error messages dumped to console screen. Fri Sep 9 20:47:00 GMT 1994: Patrol End DPMON COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 20:53:47 GMT 1994 Went into manual mode and "pressed" EJECT button, removed P00156. Cleaned heads with cleaning cassette, loaded P00157. Restarting Patrol. Fri Sep 9 20:56:12 GMT 1994: Patrol Start Fri Sep 9 20:57:05 GMT 1994: Patrol End Fri Sep 9 20:57:57 GMT 1994: Filemark Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Sep 9 21:08:32 GMT 1994 Year: 94 Doy: 252 Observer: yasukawa DPMON COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 21:10:22 GMT 1994 Still got I/O errors on tape writes. I think the new tape needed to be initialized. Rebooted in any case after protecting today's logs. Starting up again. Fri Sep 9 21:11:57 GMT 1994: Patrol Start DPMON COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 21:16:55 GMT 1994 Looks like tape drive is bbehaving again. Reconfigured back to limb-preferred mode. WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 21:18:33 GMT 1994 Cirrostratus burned off but now orographic clouds are starting to form overhead. COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 21:57:45 GMT 1994 Automatic dome rotator is on, the slot is quite tight this time of year, so the ADR is overcompensating a bit causing the MKIII to get domed out briefly each time the dome moves around midday. Fri Sep 9 22:02:57 GMT 1994: Calibration MKIII COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 22:29:20 GMT 1994 Manually moved dome to favor MKIII for a few scans. DPMON COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 23:02:43 GMT 1994 Still struggling to keep the image occulted. Increasing the size of the occulter one more step, from 1941 to 1951. Fri Sep 9 23:10:06 GMT 1994: Patrol Start WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Sep 9 23:50:59 GMT 1994 In thin cirrus. Orographic clouds moving upslope to west of station. Fri Sep 9 23:58:03 GMT 1994: Patrol End Sat Sep 10 00:06:31 GMT 1994: Patrol Start WEATHER COMMENT: Sat Sep 10 00:07:10 GMT 1994 Clear again. WEATHER COMMENT: Sat Sep 10 00:24:27 GMT 1994 Sun dipped into the orographic clouds moving upslope to west. WEATHER COMMENT: Sat Sep 10 00:59:31 GMT 1994 In thin cirrus, in and out of fast moving orographic clouds. Sat Sep 10 01:00:56 GMT 1994: Calibration WEATHER COMMENT: Sat Sep 10 01:02:53 GMT 1994 Lotsa cirrus. Stopping. Sat Sep 10 01:03:59 GMT 1994: Patrol End COMMENT: Sat Sep 10 01:05:13 GMT 1994 ''' (o o) ---------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-------------------- Activity report: QP: 90; 140; 226; 252; 290; 305; No coronal activity Tapes: MKIII: H00837 DPMON: P00155 I/O error failure at end of data P00156 LOW-L: L00104 in unit 1 Sat Sep 10 01:11:51 GMT 1994: Filemark SCAN-LOG SCAN-LOG 16:51:36. 9/9/94 DOY 252 16:58:26 17:01:40 17:04:56 17:08:09 18:50:42 18:53:51 18:57:02 19:00:12 19:03:24 19:06:33 19:09:44 19:12:53 19:16:02 19:19:11 19:22:22 19:25:31 19:28:41 19:31:50 19:35:00 19:38:09 19:41:20 19:44:29 19:47:38 19:50:46 1954 0 CL 19:58:15 2003 15CL 20:07:21 2011 0 CL 20:14:25 2018 15CL 20:23:22 20:26:54 20:30:04 20:33:15 20:36:26 20:39:36 20:42:46 20:46:00 20:49:08 20:52:17 20:55:26 20:58:36 21:01:44 21:04:58 21:08:06 21:11:14 21:14:22 21:17:31 21:20:38 21:23:51 21:27:00 21:30:09 21:33:17 21:36:31 21:39:39 21:42:48 21:45:56 21:49:05 21:52:12 21:55:22 21:58:30 22:01:41 22:04:48 22:07:57 22:11:06 22:14:17 22:17:25 22:20:35 22:23:43 22:26:55 22:30:04 22:33:14 22:36:24 22:39:33 22:42:41 22:45:50 22:48:58 22:52:07 22:55:15 22:58:24 23:01:33 23:04:44 23:07:52 23:11:01 23:14:11 23:17:24 23:20:32 23:23:41 23:26:49 23:29:58 23:33:06 23:36:16 23:39:24 23:42:35 23:45:45 23:48:54 23:52:02 23:55:12 0:07:31 0:10:39 0:13:49 0:16:58 0:20:08 0:23:16 0:26:25 0:29:34 0:32:44 0:35:52 0:39:02 0:42:11 0:45:21 0:48:29 0:51:39 0:54:48 0:58:02 1:01:10 0 ERRORS OK