----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue May 3 16:39:34 GMT 2005 Year: 05 Doy: 123 Observer: koon Tue May 3 16:44:32 GMT 2005 CHIP Start Patrol Tue May 3 16:44:45 GMT 2005 PICS Start Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Tue May 3 16:39:35 GMT 2005 Medium to thick cirrostratus, wind=5 mph from the WSW, temp=44F. ___end___ COMMENT: Tue May 3 16:45:02 GMT 2005 Spar is barely starting to track, starting some instruments. ___end___ **PSPT PROBLEM**: Tue May 3 17:21:27 GMT 2005 I couldn't start up the "Pspt" program, eventually I had to do a safe warm reboot using "STOP-A" then "sync". The filesystem had problems so I had to give the su password and do "fsck" manually, I just answered "y" to all prompts - adjust, salvage, etcetera. After that I exited from su and system initialization continued normally, I logged in and started up normally. ___end___ **GONG PROBLEM**: Tue May 3 17:24:24 GMT 2005 This crashed in the familiar manner late yesterday, the GONG guys figured out how to restart it remotely - yay! They now have a command to use for doing that. Until further study can be made of this recurring problem they request that I remove the new Camera Monitor Box and plug the Camera PS directly to UPS power - because this setup worked flawlessly for about 5 days recently. 4 GONG sites are having problems simultaneously and apparently unrelated, so they want to be sure our site is running while they work on the other sites for a while. ___end___ PSPT COMMENT: Tue May 3 17:28:59 GMT 2005 Observing. ___end___ Tue May 3 18:00:22 GMT 2005 PICS Flat Tue May 3 18:02:34 GMT 2005 PICS End Flat Tue May 3 18:02:39 GMT 2005 PICS ReStart Patrol Tue May 3 18:02:52 GMT 2005 CHIP LSD Tue May 3 18:04:30 GMT 2005 CHIP End LSD Tue May 3 18:04:37 GMT 2005 CHIP BiasLSD Tue May 3 18:05:27 GMT 2005 CHIP End BiasLSD Tue May 3 18:05:33 GMT 2005 CHIP Bias Tue May 3 18:06:25 GMT 2005 CHIP End Bias Tue May 3 18:06:32 GMT 2005 CHIP ReStart Patrol **GONG PROBLEM**: Tue May 3 18:16:48 GMT 2005 Guillermo would like to connect the O-scope to the monitor box in hopes of capturing a digital signal glitch. So I'll wait a while before working on that, until he sends some instructions. ___end___ A NEW TAPE HAS BEEN PUT INTO KAIEE DLT DRIVE, Tue May 3 18:55:26 GMT 2005 COMMENT: Tue May 3 20:22:44 GMT 2005 Extended the dome slot. ___end___ Tue May 3 22:11:42 GMT 2005 CHIP End Patrol Tue May 3 22:12:15 GMT 2005 PICS End Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Tue May 3 22:11:56 GMT 2005 Hazy, still have cirrostratus, low clouds are passing over too. Pausing instruments until Spar can track again. ___end___ **GONG PROBLEM**: Tue May 3 23:34:17 GMT 2005 Going down to shelter to work on some things. ___end___ **GONG PROBLEM**: Wed May 4 01:25:33 GMT 2005 Back from shelter, configured new digital O-scope to connect to Internet via our gateway, connected the probe to the camera monitor box DC input to relay, connected camera power supply directly to UPS outlet for stability. Will go back down and get the latest set of data logger file and start the last set we need to do which will also be on the UPS power. ___end___ WEATHER COMMENT: Wed May 4 01:30:26 GMT 2005 Still very cloudy, domes closed. ___end___ **GONG PROBLEM**: Wed May 4 01:55:48 GMT 2005 Back from shelter, will email the file to Guillermo, the next set will end tomorrow about 3:50pm. ___end___ NICE PICSDISC IMAGE: 1705 NICE CHIP IMAGE: 1705 Wed May 4 02:25:11 GMT 2005 MkIV