----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Jul 15 16:29:47 GMT 1999 Year: 99 Doy: 196 Observer: yasukawa WEATHER COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 16:31:11 GMT 1999 Cool, scattered cirrus, no wind. Thu Jul 15 16:31:46 GMT 1999 CHIP Startup--Initializing new tape Thu Jul 15 16:36:47 GMT 1999 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol Thu Jul 15 16:37:04 GMT 1999 PICS Start Patrol Thu Jul 15 16:37:18 GMT 1999 MKIV Start Patrol Thu Jul 15 17:00:50 GMT 1999 CHIP Bias Thu Jul 15 17:01:51 GMT 1999 CHIP End Bias Thu Jul 15 17:02:04 GMT 1999 CHIP Water Thu Jul 15 17:02:41 GMT 1999 CHIP End Water **MKIV PROBLEM**: Thu Jul 15 17:44:31 GMT 1999 Scoured MKIII/IV looking for possible sources of light leaks. Found foil tape covering some of the trough cavities with pukas (holes) to the interior not securely sealing in places. Resealed tape or replaced tape. Also found several places where light may have been finding its way inside the MKIII/IV, sealed them up with foil tape. **MKIV PROBLEM**: Thu Jul 15 17:49:42 GMT 1999 Stopping MKIV to reboot KCC, then running a CORRECT. Barrel ran to a hardware limit after the KCC reset. Thu Jul 15 18:00:57 GMT 1999 MKIV Start Correct Thu Jul 15 18:02:13 GMT 1999 MKIV End Correct **MKIV COMMENT**: Thu Jul 15 18:02:27 GMT 1999 Bunch of negative numbers streamed by during dark corect, between around -4 to -7. 02 GMT 1999 PICS Flat Thu Jul 15 18:03:44 GMT 1999 MKIV Start Cal Thu Jul 15 18:03:38 GMT 1999 CHIP End Bias Thu Jul 15 18:03:49 GMT 1999 CHIP Water Thu Jul 15 18:04:25 GMT 1999 CHIP End Water MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 18:04:52 GMT 1999 Running Cal **MKIV PROBLEM**: Thu Jul 15 18:09:20 GMT 1999 Calibration did not start properly. Optics set up, and barrel ran, but no display generated. Ran CCW and stopped. akamai message at start of cal: start_cal Access Fault Program Counter: 0x00158d48 Status Register: 0x3014 Access Address : 0x027c2b9c Special Status : 0x0145 Task: 0x37ed34 "t_disp" 383 205248 262144 value = 383 = 0x17f syntax error akamai-> **MKIV PROBLEM**: Thu Jul 15 18:18:23 GMT 1999 Akamai just indicated: No known instrument at this location... Hmmm... **MKIV PROBLEM**: Thu Jul 15 18:19:21 GMT 1999 Alerted David by voicemail and email. Awaiting his attention. **MKIV PROBLEM**: Thu Jul 15 18:32:26 GMT 1999 Rebooting KCC. MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 18:35:06 GMT 1999 Barrel running back to CW software limit (I hope) after KCC reset. MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 18:36:38 GMT 1999 Barrel stopped at CW software limit (phew!). Running another CORRECT. Thu Jul 15 18:37:18 GMT 1999 MKIV Start Correct MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 18:37:55 GMT 1999 Dark correct listing out values we are looking for, 0s and -1s. MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 18:38:45 GMT 1999 Correct pau. Running Calibration. Thu Jul 15 18:39:09 GMT 1999 MKIV Start Cal **MKIV PROBLEM**: Thu Jul 15 18:39:50 GMT 1999 t_disp crashed again. Calibration is "running" but nothing is being displayed. Data are not being written to disk, also, at the end of the Cal scan, this happened both cal attempts. Due to t_disp crash? **MKIV PROBLEM**: Thu Jul 15 18:54:49 GMT 1999 Rebooting KCC. Starting calibration as soon as KCC is ready. Thu Jul 15 18:59:20 GMT 1999 MKIV Start Cal MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 18:59:46 GMT 1999 Calibration started up OK this time, display task is running OK. Problem could be happening at the end of the Correct or with some interaction between correct and calibration??? _calibration Thu Jul 15 19:01:56 GMT 1999 CHIP Bias Thu Jul 15 19:02:46 GMT 1999 CHIP End Bias Thu Jul 15 19:03:06 GMT 1999 CHIP Water Thu Jul 15 19:03:51 GMT 1999 CHIP End Water **** EVENT COMMENT ****: Thu Jul 15 19:15:26 GMT 1999 I think there was an EPL on the southwest limb while I was tending to MKIV problems. EPL gone now. Appears to be an active region on northeast limb too. COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 19:22:33 GMT 1999 Stopping to reconfigure dome shutter. P End Patrol Thu Jul 15 19:22:59 GMT 1999 PICS End Patrol Thu Jul 15 19:28:19 GMT 1999 MKIV Start Patrol Thu Jul 15 19:28:42 GMT 1999 PICS Start Patrol Thu Jul 15 19:28:42 GMT 1999 PICS Start Patrol MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 19:29:08 GMT 1999 This may sound like a paranoid comment, but Patrol started up OK. MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 19:30:41 GMT 1999 Display is quite bright at the lowest gain available--.25 MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 19:37:51 GMT 1999 Running a Dark with the dust cover also closed. MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 19:43:10 GMT 1999 Opened dust cover, resuming Patrol. Thu Jul 15 19:43:41 GMT 1999 MKIV Start Patrol Thu Jul 15 20:01:57 GMT 1999 CHIP Gain Thu Jul 15 20:06:27 GMT 1999 CHIP End Gain Thu Jul 15 20:06:41 GMT 1999 CHIP Bias Thu Jul 15 20:07:36 GMT 1999 CHIP End Bias Thu Jul 15 20:07:46 GMT 1999 CHIP Water Thu Jul 15 20:08:21 GMT 1999 CHIP End Water MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 20:30:25 GMT 1999 Stopping Patrol, resetting KCC to pick up new corrector target values sent by David, running a Correct, then running another Calibrate. Also, will run Correct and Calibrate back-to-back to see if display task crashes again. Thu Jul 15 20:38:36 GMT 1999 MKIV Start Correct MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 20:39:17 GMT 1999 First pass of dark correct values ranged from 5 to 15, second pass values ranged from 2 to 8. Thu Jul 15 20:40:20 GMT 1999 MKIV Start Cal **MKIV PROBLEM**: Thu Jul 15 20:40:41 GMT 1999 Started Calibrate, got the t_disp crash again. Resetting KCC. Thu Jul 15 20:42:56 GMT 1999 MKIV Start Cal MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 20:42:59 GMT 1999 Restarting Calibrate Thu Jul 15 21:02:47 GMT 1999 CHIP Bias Thu Jul 15 21:03:52 GMT 1999 CHIP End Bias Thu Jul 15 21:04:12 GMT 1999 CHIP Water Thu Jul 15 21:04:51 GMT 1999 CHIP End Water MKIV COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 21:10:44 GMT 1999 Dynamic range of KCC display much better at the two lowest values, .5 and .25. Thu Jul 15 22:02:47 GMT 1999 CHIP Bias Thu Jul 15 22:03:41 GMT 1999 CHIP End Bias Thu Jul 15 22:04:02 GMT 1999 CHIP Water Thu Jul 15 22:04:50 GMT 1999 CHIP End Water Thu Jul 15 22:08:30 GMT 1999 CHIP CHIP End Patrol Thu Jul 15 22:08:49 GMT 1999 PICS End Patrol Thu Jul 15 22:09:01 GMT 1999 CHIP ending tape COMMENT: Thu Jul 15 22:09:46 GMT 1999 TAPES: MKIV: 99-196 PICS: P01486 CHIP: C00865 LOWL: L00613 in drive #1, 20 files and still running. Thu Jul 15 22:11:37 GMT 1999 MkIII 16_37.rawmk3 17_26.rawmk3 19_50.rawmk3 21_03.rawmk3 21_52.rawmk3 16_41.rawmk3 17_30.rawmk3 19_53.rawmk3 21_07.rawmk3 21_56.rawmk3 16_44.rawmk3 17_33.rawmk3 19_57.rawmk3 21_11.rawmk3 22_00.rawmk3 16_48.rawmk3 17_37.rawmk3 20_01.rawmk3 21_14.rawmk3 22_04.rawmk3 16_52.rawmk3 17_41.rawmk3 20_05.rawmk3 21_18.rawmk3 c18_59.rawmk3 16_56.rawmk3 17_45.rawmk3 20_09.rawmk3 21_22.rawmk3 c19_07.rawmk3 16_59.rawmk3 17_48.rawmk3 20_12.rawmk3 21_26.rawmk3 c19_15.rawmk3 17_03.rawmk3 19_03.rawmk3 20_16.rawmk3 21_30.rawmk3 c19_37.rawmk3 17_07.rawmk3 19_11.rawmk3 20_20.rawmk3 21_33.rawmk3 c20_43.rawmk3 17_11.rawmk3 19_19.rawmk3 20_24.rawmk3 21_37.rawmk3 c20_51.rawmk3 17_14.rawmk3 19_28.rawmk3 20_28.rawmk3 21_41.rawmk3 c20_59.rawmk3 17_18.rawmk3 19_32.rawmk3 20_47.rawmk3 21_45.rawmk3 17_22.rawmk3 19_43.rawmk3 20_55.rawmk3 21_48.rawmk3