----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Dec 30 17:12:41 GMT 2002 Year: 02 Doy: 364 Observer: yasukawa WEATHER COMMENT: Mon Dec 30 17:12:49 GMT 2002 Cool, clear, light south breeze. Mon Dec 30 17:23:35 GMT 2002 CHIP Start Patrol Mon Dec 30 17:23:44 GMT 2002 PICS Start Patrol A NEW TAPE HAS BEEN PUT INTO KAIEE DLT DRIVE, Mon Dec 30 17:29:31 GMT 2002 Mon Dec 30 17:38:37 GMT 2002 MKIV Start Patrol PSPT COMMENT: Mon Dec 30 17:39:31 GMT 2002 Starting daily obs **PSPT PROBLEM**: Mon Dec 30 17:53:18 GMT 2002 PSPT did not point spar correctly, pointed too low. Pointed manually, ran Center Image. MKIV COMMENT: Mon Dec 30 17:57:15 GMT 2002 Centered O1 guider, steppers OK. **PSPT PROBLEM**: Mon Dec 30 18:01:18 GMT 2002 Center Image could not find sun even if spar was closely pointed. Trying Daily obs. Mon Dec 30 18:02:08 GMT 2002 PICS Flat Mon Dec 30 18:02:51 GMT 2002 CHIP LSD Mon Dec 30 18:04:35 GMT 2002 PICS End Flat Mon Dec 30 18:04:41 GMT 2002 CHIP End LSD Mon Dec 30 18:04:59 GMT 2002 CHIP BiasLSD Mon Dec 30 18:05:47 GMT 2002 CHIP End BiasLSD Mon Dec 30 18:05:59 GMT 2002 CHIP Bias Mon Dec 30 18:06:49 GMT 2002 CHIP End Bias **PSPT PROBLEM**: Mon Dec 30 18:08:34 GMT 2002 Getting "Sun is still too low" "Go back to bed" messages even at this late time. **PSPT PROBLEM**: Mon Dec 30 18:12:06 GMT 2002 Program gave up on centering and started Hi Res. Sun not well centered but letting it run to make sure shutter is working and to see if subsequent centering attempts will work. **PSPT PROBLEM**: Mon Dec 30 18:38:38 GMT 2002 Aborted program. Running a "gdr ephmcal" to try to correct pointing. Mon Dec 30 18:40:17 GMT 2002 MKIV Start Cal **PSPT PROBLEM**: Mon Dec 30 18:55:46 GMT 2002 Appears something has chaged in the startup program. After the ephmcal, I ran Start-up. Startup stopped after homing guider, did not try to point guider. I pointed guider manually again and started daily observations. Waiting to see if guider will point correctly this time at next centering routine. Mon Dec 30 18:59:08 GMT 2002 MKIV End Cal Mon Dec 30 18:59:21 GMT 2002 MKIV Start Patrol MKIV COMMENT: Mon Dec 30 19:02:20 GMT 2002 Centered O1, steppers OK. GONG COMMENT: Mon Dec 30 19:04:06 GMT 2002 Going down to GONG to do weekly PM. GONG COMMENT: Mon Dec 30 19:27:38 GMT 2002 Back from GONG. MKIV COMMENT: Mon Dec 30 20:35:25 GMT 2002 Centered O1, steppers OK. **PSPT PROBLEM**: Mon Dec 30 20:38:56 GMT 2002 Centering routine is still thinking sun is too low and wants to go to bed. Has anything changed between yesterday and today? **PSPT PROBLEM**: Mon Dec 30 21:33:11 GMT 2002 Also noticing that the dome is not tracking all that well, pspt is looking near the right (south) edge of the slot. MKIV COMMENT: Mon Dec 30 21:36:07 GMT 2002 Centered O1, steppers OK. **PSPT PROBLEM**: Mon Dec 30 21:45:13 GMT 2002 Stopped obs and ran a dome cal/dome ephm routine and then ran another gdr ephmcal routine. **PSPT PROBLEM**: Mon Dec 30 22:00:11 GMT 2002 Manually stowed pspt after cals. Did an init sys. Ran start-up. Telescope initialization finished up with soar pointing too far east. Dome appeared in correct position, spar was looking at the left edge of the slot--completely out of the slot, with the right edge of the aperture at the left edge of the slot. Mon Dec 30 22:04:41 GMT 2002 CHIP End Patrol Mon Dec 30 22:06:00 GMT 2002 PICS End Patrol Mon Dec 30 22:08:39 GMT 2002 MKIV End Patrol **PSPT PROBLEM**: Mon Dec 30 22:09:08 GMT 2002 Spar and dome pointed to correct positions for shutdown. (goes to pre-set counter values) Something is squirrely with the ephemeris calculations???? Mon Dec 30 22:10:54 GMT 2002 MkIV 17_38.rawmk4 18_43.rawmk4 19_43.rawmk4 20_40.rawmk4 21_33.rawmk4 17_41.rawmk4 18_49.rawmk4 19_46.rawmk4 20_43.rawmk4 21_36.rawmk4 17_47.rawmk4 18_55.rawmk4 19_52.rawmk4 20_46.rawmk4 21_39.rawmk4 17_51.rawmk4 18_59.rawmk4 19_56.rawmk4 20_49.rawmk4 21_41.rawmk4 17_57.rawmk4 19_02.rawmk4 19_59.rawmk4 20_51.rawmk4 21_44.rawmk4 18_00.rawmk4 19_05.rawmk4 20_01.rawmk4 20_54.rawmk4 21_47.rawmk4 18_03.rawmk4 19_08.rawmk4 20_04.rawmk4 20_57.rawmk4 21_50.rawmk4 18_06.rawmk4 19_11.rawmk4 20_07.rawmk4 21_00.rawmk4 21_53.rawmk4 18_09.rawmk4 19_14.rawmk4 20_10.rawmk4 21_03.rawmk4 21_56.rawmk4 18_12.rawmk4 19_17.rawmk4 20_13.rawmk4 21_06.rawmk4 21_59.rawmk4 18_15.rawmk4 19_19.rawmk4 20_16.rawmk4 21_09.rawmk4 22_02.rawmk4 18_18.rawmk4 19_22.rawmk4 20_19.rawmk4 21_12.rawmk4 22_05.rawmk4 18_21.rawmk4 19_25.rawmk4 20_22.rawmk4 21_15.rawmk4 c18_40.rawmk4 18_24.rawmk4 19_28.rawmk4 20_25.rawmk4 21_18.rawmk4 c18_46.rawmk4 18_27.rawmk4 19_31.rawmk4 20_28.rawmk4 21_21.rawmk4 c18_52.rawmk4 18_30.rawmk4 19_34.rawmk4 20_31.rawmk4 21_24.rawmk4 18_33.rawmk4 19_37.rawmk4 20_34.rawmk4 21_27.rawmk4 18_36.rawmk4 19_40.rawmk4 20_37.rawmk4 21_30.rawmk4