----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Sep 23 16:45:02 GMT 1996 Year: 96 Doy: 267 Observer: koon WEATHER COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 16:45:07 GMT 1996 Medium cirrostratus overcast, wind=5 mph from the SSW, temp=44 F. Mon Sep 23 16:45:45 GMT 1996 CHIP Startup--Initializing new tape Mon Sep 23 16:50:14 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol Mon Sep 23 16:51:00 GMT 1996 dPMon Start Patrol CHIP COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 16:54:32 GMT 1996 O1 ranaway, repointed it. Mon Sep 23 17:01:02 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Mon Sep 23 17:01:54 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Mon Sep 23 17:04:56 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Mon Sep 23 17:06:38 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Mon Sep 23 17:06:47 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Mon Sep 23 17:07:25 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water CHIP COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 17:13:48 GMT 1996 O1 ranaway, running the new Manual command and repointing. CHIP COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 17:27:16 GMT 1996 No image shown on screen, will end and restart Patrol to see if that fixes the problem. Mon Sep 23 17:29:03 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol Mon Sep 23 17:33:04 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol LOW-L COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 17:32:09 GMT 1996 Tapes were in wrong order, data going to 418 with 417 next in line. Relabeled the tapes correctly. Data now going to L00417 in drive #0. The problems that Kim and Eric had with the incorrect pointing on DOY 266 was probably due to the old autumnal equinox problem we have every 9/22 ut. It looks good today. CHIP COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 17:43:52 GMT 1996 Manually used the mouse to make sur the dust cover was open and the diffuser was out, this brought back images to the screen. The images were not centered so I typed in Auto to let FixCenter center the image (since the clouds are relatively thin now and the Spar is pointing correctly), then I typed in Manual again to prevent the FixCenter O1 runaways. Program is running well now. Mon Sep 23 18:00:53 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Mon Sep 23 18:01:46 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Mon Sep 23 18:02:47 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Mon Sep 23 18:03:52 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Mon Sep 23 18:04:01 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Mon Sep 23 18:04:38 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water DPMON COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 18:03:53 GMT 1996 I'm letting the Patrol run in case the clouds thin out enough to get good data. MKIII COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 18:05:02 GMT 1996 Clouds too thick to get data, haven't started observations with MKIII. Mon Sep 23 19:00:59 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Mon Sep 23 19:01:53 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Mon Sep 23 19:03:43 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Mon Sep 23 19:04:54 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Mon Sep 23 19:05:03 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Mon Sep 23 19:05:40 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water Mon Sep 23 19:26:42 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol CHIP COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 19:27:22 GMT 1996 Starting the Special spectral scans. Mon Sep 23 19:45:10 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol CHIP COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 19:45:02 GMT 1996 Special run ended, restarting Patrol. Mon Sep 23 20:00:54 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Mon Sep 23 20:01:49 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Mon Sep 23 20:03:52 GMT 1996 CHIP Gain Mon Sep 23 20:08:19 GMT 1996 CHIP End Gain Mon Sep 23 20:08:30 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Mon Sep 23 20:09:11 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Mon Sep 23 20:09:19 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Mon Sep 23 20:09:46 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 20:45:16 GMT 1996 Extended the dome slot. Mon Sep 23 21:00:55 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Mon Sep 23 21:01:49 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Mon Sep 23 21:05:06 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Mon Sep 23 21:06:10 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Mon Sep 23 21:06:18 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Mon Sep 23 21:06:51 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water Mon Sep 23 22:00:59 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Mon Sep 23 22:01:50 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Mon Sep 23 22:03:24 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Mon Sep 23 22:04:27 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Mon Sep 23 22:04:38 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Mon Sep 23 22:05:18 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water WEATHER COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 22:09:11 GMT 1996 Orographic clouds passing over. Mon Sep 23 22:40:04 GMT 1996 dPMon End Patrol DPMON COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 22:39:58 GMT 1996 Pausing due to thick clouds. CHIP COMMENT: Mon Sep 23 22:40:11 GMT 1996 Pausing due to thick clouds. Mon Sep 23 22:42:04 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Tue Sep 24 00:11:24 GMT 1996 Fog getting close, closing dome. LOW-L COMMENT: Tue Sep 24 00:53:46 GMT 1996 Since it is cloudy I will stop the observing and work on changing the software to eliminate the equinox pointing problem and hopefully load the firmware from the Code Load tape. Tue Sep 24 03:21:11 GMT 1996 CHIP ending tape LOW-L COMMENT: Tue Sep 24 03:30:10 GMT 1996 After a lot of testing with various brand new and used low density tapes it appears that the Code Load tape didn't change our problem, if the tape was written to in low density it will be written to that way by both of our tape drives even after the supposed firmware change made by the Code Load tape. I'll talk to Vic on Thursday, but maybe we'll have to gat a degausser. LOW-L COMMENT: Tue Sep 24 04:15:31 GMT 1996 Changed the software as requested by David, as far as I can tell everything is working OK. COMMENT: Tue Sep 24 04:16:08 GMT 1996 Activity report: QP: 220-235; 265; 315. No coronal activity seen through clouds. TAPES: ****** DPMON: P00717 CHIP: C00134 LOW-L: L00417 and L00418 in drive #0