Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Sep 18 16:40:04 GMT 1994 Year: 94 Doy: 261 Observer: chu WEATHER COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 16:45:50 GMT 1994 Clear, cool, light wind from South. Temp 42F. Humidity 72%. Moisture on the ground and on all external surfaces indicates that it rained sometime last night. Sun Sep 18 16:46:56 GMT 1994: Patrol Start MKIII COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 16:47:02 GMT 1994 Beginning obs with MKIII partially blocked by dome wall. LOW-L COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 16:54:34 GMT 1994 Have noticed that the Low-l is currently displaying antenae tower in its FOV. Sun Sep 18 17:02:01 GMT 1994: Calibration MKIII COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 17:04:14 GMT 1994 MKIII now clearing dome wall. LOW-L COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 17:19:51 GMT 1994 Tape # L00106 popped out of unit 1. Removed and replaced with tape # L00108. Sun Sep 18 18:01:57 GMT 1994: Calibration WEATHER COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 18:46:32 GMT 1994 Extensive region of cirrostratus approaching from West. Will probably pass into FOV within the next hour or so. Sun Sep 18 19:01:57 GMT 1994: Calibration WEATHER COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 19:07:23 GMT 1994 First small patchs of cirrus passing through FOV. DPMON COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 19:16:23 GMT 1994 Configured the Dpmon to optimum disk preferred mode. WEATHER COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 19:24:21 GMT 1994 Cirrus appears to be washing out both MKIII and Dpmon limb images at present. DPMON COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 19:51:58 GMT 1994 Reconfigured the Dpmon back to optimum limb preferred mode. COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 19:52:24 GMT 1994 Reconfigured the dome slot. Sun Sep 18 20:02:00 GMT 1994: Calibration WEATHER COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 20:34:31 GMT 1994 Orographic clouds have closed in from East and West. Blocking FOV. I can still see some patches of blue sky. Will continue to run in hopes of catching a scan within the holes. Sun Sep 18 21:01:57 GMT 1994: Calibration Sun Sep 18 21:04:55 GMT 1994: Patrol End COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 21:05:19 GMT 1994 Stopping obs for now. Has been completely overcast for a while. Appears it will remain so for a while longer. WEATHER COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 21:09:09 GMT 1994 Closing dome immediately. Very fine grains of moisture falling from a small cloud, even though clouds seem to be thinning. WEATHER COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 21:28:48 GMT 1994 In ground fog. WEATHER COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 21:56:32 GMT 1994 Some holes in clouds forming around Sun. Still quite a bit of moisture being blown down from mountain cap clouds to South. Will wait for moisture to dissapate before reopening dome. WEATHER COMMENT: Sun Sep 18 22:45:31 GMT 1994 Completely overcast again. Light drizzle falling from clouds. COMMENT: Mon Sep 19 01:03:38 GMT 1994 Overcast skies since ~21:00UT. Intermittent rain and fog also. No obs since that time. PAU. Activity Report: QP: 34-40; 46; 82-84; 94-103; 118-121; 234; 260-264; 294-304. No Coronal Activity. Tapes: MKIII: H00844 DPMON: P00164 LOW-L: L00107 running in unit 0. L00106 removed from unit 1. L00108 placed into unit 1. Mon Sep 19 01:06:43 GMT 1994: Filemark SCAN-LOG SCAN-LOG 16:48:30. 9/18/94 DOY 261 16:54:00 16:57:14 17:00:27 17:03:40 17:06:54 17:10:08 17:13:23 17:16:36 17:19:51 17:23:05 17:26:19 17:29:33 17:32:48 17:36:01 17:39:19 17:42:32 17:45:45 17:48:57 17:52:10 17:55:22 17:58:35 18:01:48 1805 0 CL 18:08:47 1813 15CL 18:17:52 18:21:54 18:25:07 18:28:27 18:31:38 18:34:51 18:38:02 18:41:22 18:44:35 18:47:47 18:50:58 18:54:09 18:57:19 19:00:29 19:03:38 19:06:50 19:09:59 19:13:09 19:16:17 19:19:31 19:22:39 19:25:48 19:28:56 19:32:05 19:35:13 19:38:22 19:41:30 19:44:39 19:47:47 19:50:57 19:54:05 19:57:14 20:00:22 20:03:32 20:06:40 20:09:49 20:12:58 20:16:08 20:19:16 20:22:26 20:25:34 20:28:44 20:31:53 20:35:03 20:38:12 20:41:22 20:44:31 20:47:41 20:50:50 20:54:00 20:57:09 21:00:19 0 ERRORS OK