----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Sep 18 16:35:18 GMT 1996 Year: 96 Doy: 262 Observer: yasukawa WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 16:35:22 GMT 1996 Cool, clear, light southwest wind. Wed Sep 18 16:35:52 GMT 1996 CHIP Startup--Initializing new tape Wed Sep 18 16:40:25 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol Wed Sep 18 16:40:45 GMT 1996 dPMon Start Patrol DPMON COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 16:40:50 GMT 1996 Occulter is 1961 COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 16:46:16 GMT 1996 Corrected nene time -3 sec and kii time +3 sec. CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 16:56:14 GMT 1996 Fixcenter crash, fixed. Wed Sep 18 17:01:59 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Wed Sep 18 17:02:53 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Wed Sep 18 17:04:11 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Wed Sep 18 17:05:17 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Wed Sep 18 17:05:26 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Wed Sep 18 17:06:04 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 17:22:37 GMT 1996 Fixcenter crash again. Fixed. Wed Sep 18 17:31:38 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol Wed Sep 18 17:34:44 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 17:32:52 GMT 1996 Doing a Kill/Run cycle to load DE software mods to reduce limb darkening and also to load a new routine "Fixbusy" that will allow clearing the FixCenter/Optics Busy crash with a single command. Wed Sep 18 17:49:47 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 17:49:07 GMT 1996 Stopping Patrol again to load another iteration to reduce limb darkening. Wed Sep 18 17:51:02 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol Wed Sep 18 18:01:51 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Wed Sep 18 18:02:42 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Wed Sep 18 18:02:47 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Wed Sep 18 18:03:58 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Wed Sep 18 18:04:08 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Wed Sep 18 18:05:00 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 18:09:02 GMT 1996 Stopping Patrol again to load another iteration of limb darkening reduction. Wed Sep 18 18:11:38 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol Wed Sep 18 18:12:47 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol Wed Sep 18 18:27:38 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 18:27:39 GMT 1996 Loading another iteration. Wed Sep 18 18:29:07 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol Wed Sep 18 18:41:44 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 18:42:47 GMT 1996 Loading another iteration. Wed Sep 18 18:42:59 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol Wed Sep 18 18:52:44 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol Wed Sep 18 18:53:46 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol Wed Sep 18 19:01:56 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Wed Sep 18 19:02:48 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Wed Sep 18 19:06:14 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Wed Sep 18 19:07:28 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Wed Sep 18 19:07:35 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Wed Sep 18 19:08:18 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 19:15:17 GMT 1996 Loading another iteration. Wed Sep 18 19:17:37 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol Wed Sep 18 19:18:41 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol Wed Sep 18 19:29:38 GMT 1996 dPMon End Patrol COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 19:29:51 GMT 1996 Stopping to reconfigure dome shutter. Wed Sep 18 19:30:34 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol Wed Sep 18 19:38:18 GMT 1996 dPMon Start Patrol Wed Sep 18 19:38:27 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol DPMON COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 19:38:41 GMT 1996 Changed occulting disc from #6 to #5, 1961 to 1971. Wed Sep 18 20:02:54 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Wed Sep 18 20:03:50 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Wed Sep 18 20:05:18 GMT 1996 CHIP Gain Wed Sep 18 20:10:04 GMT 1996 CHIP End Gain Wed Sep 18 20:10:14 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Wed Sep 18 20:10:58 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Wed Sep 18 20:11:08 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Wed Sep 18 20:11:41 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water Wed Sep 18 20:18:04 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol Wed Sep 18 20:19:19 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 20:19:18 GMT 1996 Starting Special. CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 20:37:37 GMT 1996 FixCenter stall, fixing with new shell script: Fixbusy. CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 20:41:51 GMT 1996 hung again in fixcenter restart after cancel optics Wed Sep 18 21:02:51 GMT 1996 dPMon Flat Wed Sep 18 21:02:53 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Wed Sep 18 21:03:43 GMT 1996 dPMon End Flat Wed Sep 18 21:04:04 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Wed Sep 18 21:04:14 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Wed Sep 18 21:04:58 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 21:07:37 GMT 1996 orographic clouds now forming over head CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 21:12:13 GMT 1996 fixcenter hang again with clouds WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 21:15:53 GMT 1996 In orographic clouds. Wed Sep 18 21:28:42 GMT 1996 dPMon End Patrol COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 21:28:46 GMT 1996 Stopping MKIII and DPMON due to clouds. CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 21:29:03 GMT 1996 Lost X, Moving mike manually to center image. CHIP COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 21:35:35 GMT 1996 Clouds thick and causing FixCenter runaways as program tries to find limb. Stopping Special. Wed Sep 18 21:36:22 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol Wed Sep 18 21:43:32 GMT 1996 dPMon Start Patrol Wed Sep 18 21:43:28 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 21:43:30 GMT 1996 Clear hole, starting systems back up. Wed Sep 18 21:49:59 GMT 1996 dPMon End Patrol Wed Sep 18 21:50:26 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 21:50:14 GMT 1996 Back in orographic clouds. AllStop again. WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 22:59:14 GMT 1996 Still in orographic clouds. MKIII COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 22:59:27 GMT 1996 ### CHANGE ### CHANGE ### CHANGE ### CHANGE ### CHANGE ### Removed compensator plate assembly from optical chan 3 (Micro chan 1). Moved last lens before beam splitter forward 2.25 mm. Moved P and S detector assemblies forward 2.25 mm. In heavy overcast so cannot check results of reconfiguration. MKIII COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 23:11:47 GMT 1996 Starting Dark Noise test in Heavy overcast. Shutter closed, spar pointing east. Taking two scans of dark data. MKIII COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 23:21:14 GMT 1996 Noise test, spar pointing straight up, shutter closed. Taking two scans. MKIII COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 23:28:01 GMT 1996 Noise test with spar pointing west. Shutter closed. Taking two scans. Guider turned off. MKIII COMMENT: Wed Sep 18 23:34:43 GMT 1996 Dark noise test done. DEC engineer is here to replace power supply in 11/44 so we will shut down for now. Ending tape H01391. SCAN-LOG SCAN-LOG 16:43:55. 9/18/96 DOY 262 16:50:52 16:54:08 16:57:24 17:00:40 17:03:55 17:07:11 17:10:24 17:13:38 17:16:53 17:20:13 17:23:25 17:26:39 17:29:51 17:33:05 17:36:18 17:39:36 17:42:51 17:46:04 17:49:16 17:52:29 17:55:40 17:58:53 18:02:04 1806 0 CL 18:08:56 1813 15CL 18:18:31 18:22:48 18:25:59 18:29:18 18:32:31 18:35:44 18:38:55 18:42:07 18:45:19 18:48:36 18:51:48 18:55:01 18:58:12 19:01:25 19:04:37 19:07:51 19:11:05 19:14:18 19:17:29 19:20:42 19:23:54 19:27:07 19:39:40 19:42:52 19:46:10 19:49:21 19:52:35 19:55:46 19:58:59 20:02:11 20:05:25 20:08:38 20:11:56 20:15:09 20:18:22 20:21:35 20:24:48 20:28:00 20:31:14 20:34:27 20:37:44 20:40:57 20:44:15 20:47:27 20:50:41 20:53:53 20:57:06 21:00:18 21:03:31 21:06:43 21:09:57 21:13:08 21:16:22 21:19:33 21:22:47 21:26:00 21:43:33 21:46:47 23:13:24 23:16:38 23:20:34 23:23:47 23:27:57 23:31:10 0 ERRORS OK COMMENT: Thu Sep 19 03:08:17 GMT 1996 Activity: QP: 45; 235; 240; 290; No coronal activity tapes: MKIII: H01391 DPMON: P00712 CHIP: C00129 LOWL: L00415 Thu Sep 19 03:11:42 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol Thu Sep 19 03:12:49 GMT 1996 CHIP ending tape