----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Feb 27 17:35:10 GMT 2009 Year: 09 Doy: 058 Observer: koon Fri Feb 27 17:39:16 GMT 2009 CHIP Start Patrol Fri Feb 27 17:39:56 GMT 2009 PICS Start Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Fri Feb 27 17:35:11 GMT 2009 Thin to medium cirrostratus, wind=5 mph from the SW, temp=36F, frosty. ___end___ Fri Feb 27 18:00:43 GMT 2009 CHIP LSD Fri Feb 27 18:02:07 GMT 2009 CHIP End LSD Fri Feb 27 18:02:27 GMT 2009 PICS Flat Fri Feb 27 18:02:14 GMT 2009 CHIP BiasLSD Fri Feb 27 18:03:01 GMT 2009 CHIP End BiasLSD Fri Feb 27 18:03:07 GMT 2009 CHIP Bias **CHIP PROBLEM**: Fri Feb 27 18:37:18 GMT 2009 Stalled with Program:Bias, did a pau/run cycle to fix it. ___end___ Fri Feb 27 18:37:37 GMT 2009 CHIP ReStart Patrol **PICS PROBLEM**: Fri Feb 27 18:38:35 GMT 2009 Stalled with Program:adr:1000, did a pau/run cycle to fix it. ___end___ **CHIP PROBLEM**: Fri Feb 27 18:43:58 GMT 2009 had to cycle power to MMC to fix previous problem. ___end___ **PICS PROBLEM**: Fri Feb 27 18:44:20 GMT 2009 Had to cycle MCC power to fix previous problem. ___end___ Fri Feb 27 18:44:54 GMT 2009 CHIP Start Patrol Fri Feb 27 18:45:24 GMT 2009 PICS Start Patrol **CHIP PROBLEM**: Fri Feb 27 19:36:33 GMT 2009 Crashed again with Program:Exposures, did a pau/run cycle to fix. ___end___ **PICS PROBLEM**: Fri Feb 27 19:37:05 GMT 2009 Crashed again with Program:H-alpha.limb, did a pau/run cycle to fix it. ___end___ PSPT COMMENT: Fri Feb 27 19:40:49 GMT 2009 obs ___end___ Fri Feb 27 19:43:19 GMT 2009 CHIP Start Patrol Fri Feb 27 19:44:06 GMT 2009 PICS Start Patrol **CHIP PROBLEM**: Fri Feb 27 19:44:30 GMT 2009 Had to cycle MCC power again also. ___end___ **PICS PROBLEM**: Fri Feb 27 19:44:57 GMT 2009 Had to cycle MCC power again. ___end___ COMMENT: Fri Feb 27 19:49:02 GMT 2009 Lost dec guiding, repointed and reset guider. ___end___ NICE PICSDISC IMAGE: 1845 NICE CHIP IMAGE: 2010 NICE PICSLIMB IMAGE: 1753 **PSPT PROBLEM**: Fri Feb 27 21:50:52 GMT 2009 Homed filter wheel. ___end___ **MKIV PROBLEM**: Fri Feb 27 23:27:32 GMT 2009 I had some clear weather to work on the camera installation. The problem is to align a thin slit image onto a thin linear detector using crude camera mounts in a very limited-space chamber enclosure. I can see the slit image at the I3 image location, but I can't see the same image on the camera detector after it passes through the prefilter then FeLC modulator and then the polarizing beamsplitter, all of which are mounted together as a single unit that mounts to the front of the camera. That single unit was moved by me from the old camera to this new camera and maybe something shifted in the process. I'm going to stop for today, my next step will involve removing the beamsplitter unit again and getting a feel for the difficulty of aligning the camera to a single non-split and brighter coronal slit image. ___end___ Fri Feb 27 23:37:35 GMT 2009 PICS End Patrol Fri Feb 27 23:37:34 GMT 2009 CHIP End Patrol Sat Feb 28 00:29:45 GMT 2009 MkIV