Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Sep 21 16:58:59 GMT 1994 Year: 94 Doy: 264 Observer: yasukawa WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Sep 21 16:59:09 GMT 1994 Cool, in moderate cirrus overcast, light southeast wind. Temp=46F. DPMON COMMENT: Wed Sep 21 17:00:15 GMT 1994 Dome and Plessey power left on overnight. Coude bench was left in slew mode so it did not rotate, fortunately. Wed Sep 21 17:16:11 GMT 1994: Patrol Start WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Sep 21 17:16:19 GMT 1994 In hole on cirrus, may be clear. WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Sep 21 17:28:06 GMT 1994 Thin cirrus in the hole. Will not start MKIII at this time. DPMON COMMENT: Wed Sep 21 17:46:53 GMT 1994 Forgot to turn clock drive for Coude bench back on after trimming angle. WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Sep 21 17:51:31 GMT 1994 Cirrus thick again. Stopping DPMON. Wed Sep 21 17:52:02 GMT 1994: Patrol End COMMENT: Wed Sep 21 18:17:16 GMT 1994 Closing dome shutter so that I can do some paint scraping while cirrus overcast continues. Will keep one eye on the sky for possible holes in the cirrus. COMMENT: Wed Sep 21 22:34:04 GMT 1994 ******************************************************** Chu relieving Yasukawa as observer ******************************************************** WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Sep 21 23:24:19 GMT 1994 Cirrus appears to be thinning. Reopening dome. Will begin taking data to tape. Holes in cirrus may pass into FOV in a while. Wed Sep 21 23:24:44 GMT 1994: Patrol Start Thu Sep 22 00:01:03 GMT 1994: Calibration WEATHER COMMENT: Thu Sep 22 00:04:16 GMT 1994 Orographic clouds now moving upslope in West. Will pass into FOV a few minutes. Still waiting for a hole in cirrus large enough to get MKIII coronal scan. WEATHER COMMENT: Thu Sep 22 00:10:32 GMT 1994 Orographic clouds now blocking FOV. COMMENT: Thu Sep 22 00:25:17 GMT 1994 Stopping obs at this time. In heavy orographic and cirrus cloud cover. Appears it will remain so for quite a while. Will take this opportunity to begin painting Alice's famous porch. Thu Sep 22 00:27:04 GMT 1994: Patrol End WEATHER COMMENT: Thu Sep 22 02:27:10 GMT 1994 Orographic clouds have receded. Cirrus still lingering. In the thinnest portion of cirrus now. Will restart Dpmon to see how things look. Thu Sep 22 02:27:44 GMT 1994: Patrol Start Thu Sep 22 02:30:03 GMT 1994: Patrol End COMMENT: Thu Sep 22 02:33:04 GMT 1994 Oops! Dpmon domed out. Will Reconfigure dome slot. And restart again. Thu Sep 22 02:36:24 GMT 1994: Patrol Start MKIII COMMENT: Thu Sep 22 02:45:51 GMT 1994 Loaf of bread diagram finally returning to normal. WEATHER COMMENT: Thu Sep 22 02:50:29 GMT 1994 In a hole in cirrus. MKIII COMMENT: Thu Sep 22 02:56:01 GMT 1994 Cirrus degrading loaf of bread again. Managed to get 2 or 3 coronal scans with no cirrus interference! Yipee! Thu Sep 22 03:00:58 GMT 1994: Calibration COMMENT: Thu Sep 22 03:30:55 GMT 1994 Managed to obtain only a few good MKIII and Dpmon scans for the day. Cirrus has been present to varying degrees all day, except for several minutes around 2:45 UT. PAU. Activity Report: QP: 50-62; 89; 116; 290-304. No Coronal Activity. Tapes: MKIII: H00845 DPMON: P00165 LOW-L: L00107 running in unit 0 Thu Sep 22 03:36:03 GMT 1994: Patrol End Thu Sep 22 03:37:48 GMT 1994: Filemark SCAN-LOG SCAN-LOG 17:15:49. 9/21/94 DOY 264 23:26:59 23:30:11 23:33:29 23:36:41 23:39:55 23:43:07 23:46:20 23:49:32 23:52:46 23:55:58 23:59:11 0:02:23 0:05:36 0:08:48 0:12:02 0:15:14 0:18:28 0:21:40 0:24:55 2:42:32 2:45:43 2:48:57 2:52:09 2:55:22 2:58:34 3:01:46 3:04:57 3:08:13 3:11:23 3:14:43 3:17:54 3:21:05 3:24:14 3:27:24 3:30:33 3:33:43 0 ERRORS OK