----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Mar 4 18:27:38 GMT 2010 Year: 10 Doy: 063 Observer: stueben WEATHER COMMENT: Thu Mar 4 18:27:54 GMT 2010 Clear, wind southeast 5-10 mph, temp 45F. ___end___ PSPT COMMENT: Thu Mar 4 18:31:37 GMT 2010 Observing. ___end___ COMMENT: Thu Mar 4 18:56:44 GMT 2010 Allen and Darryl up here today. Cleaned Sky Trans and Guider telescope objectives, and various other areas. ___end___ **MKIV PROBLEM**: Thu Mar 4 18:57:39 GMT 2010 Had trouble removing O1 , too tight in mount for some reason, but did get it removed. Will clean and replace. Found bad connector on Analog Dalsa output, repair in progress. ___end___ Thu Mar 4 20:07:31 GMT 2010 MKIV Start Patrol **MKIV PROBLEM**: Thu Mar 4 20:12:49 GMT 2010 We have a double-hump analog display downstairs again, the bad BNC connector at the "T" on the pier was the problem. The scans look a lot better digitally too, the O1 was filthy from all the activity upstairs lately. We're done with mk4 for now, it is essentially the same as before the CoMP deployment as far as we can tell, it looks like the right hump can be improved with a little camera tweaking so I'll do that later when I have more time to work on it. ___end___ COMMENT: Thu Mar 4 20:17:19 GMT 2010 H-alpha telescope is observing and files are going to Kenobi. ___end___ COMMENT: Thu Mar 4 21:02:42 GMT 2010 Installed Auto-Dome-Rotator, testing in progress, I mounted it on the front of CHIP on that metal guard that looks like a handle. ___end___ Thu Mar 4 21:12:33 GMT 2010 MKIV End Patrol Thu Mar 4 21:12:39 GMT 2010 MKIV Start Cal Thu Mar 4 21:31:20 GMT 2010 MKIV End Cal Thu Mar 4 21:31:26 GMT 2010 MKIV Start Patrol COMMENT: Thu Mar 4 21:31:30 GMT 2010 ADR is working well so far. ___end___ Thu Mar 4 22:19:39 GMT 2010 CHIP Start Patrol Thu Mar 4 22:22:53 GMT 2010 CHIP End Patrol COMMENT: Thu Mar 4 22:33:36 GMT 2010 Shutter blocking instruments, extending dome slot. ___end___ Thu Mar 4 22:54:12 GMT 2010 MKIV End Patrol Thu Mar 4 23:44:08 GMT 2010 MKIV Start Patrol COMMENT: Fri Mar 5 00:31:20 GMT 2010 HawTel guys came up for a site survey related to our request for more bandwidth for CoMP. We need 15 Mbaud. ___end___ Fri Mar 5 00:54:58 GMT 2010 MKIV End Patrol Fri Mar 5 01:09:30 GMT 2010 CHIP Start Patrol CHIP COMMENT: Fri Mar 5 01:09:33 GMT 2010 Found and centered the image of the sun, set focus to 20670 (absolute) as requested by Joan, taking Patrol data now. Notes: X absolute = -12400, Y absolute = 14070; Camera touches filter at an absolute focus setting of 26060; moving X Down gives a smaller number and image moves down on screen; moving Y Down gives a smaller number and the image moves left on the screen; moving Focus to a larger number moves the camera closer to the filter; the motor-mike for focus has a difficult time moving to numbers greater than about 20000 from a lower number because it is pushing the camera against a spring, and this is a problem even with the camera rail almost horizontal as it is now in the late afternoon, so focusing can be a difficult thing because the motor-mike struggles and you have to keep pressing the Run button on the Mike controller, during midday the motor-mike would struggle even more because the weight of the camera would be added to the force of the return spring; there was several big specks on the CCD so I carefully and lightly blew away some of them using the little compressor that we use on Mk4, that helped a lot but there is still one speck visible in the lower left quadrant of the sun. Pau for now. ___end___ Fri Mar 5 01:24:59 GMT 2010 MKIV Start Patrol Fri Mar 5 01:27:25 GMT 2010 CHIP End Patrol **CHIP PROBLEM**: Fri Mar 5 01:28:05 GMT 2010 Crashed doing a FixCenter, restarting. ___end___ Fri Mar 5 01:29:09 GMT 2010 CHIP Start Patrol Fri Mar 5 02:01:29 GMT 2010 MKIV End Patrol Fri Mar 5 02:10:33 GMT 2010 CHIP End Patrol Fri Mar 5 02:17:44 GMT 2010 MkIV 00_01.rawmk4 01_27.rawmk4 20_34.rawmk4 21_40.rawmk4 22_36.rawmk4 00_04.rawmk4 01_30.rawmk4 20_37.rawmk4 21_43.rawmk4 22_39.rawmk4 00_07.rawmk4 01_33.rawmk4 20_40.rawmk4 21_46.rawmk4 22_41.rawmk4 00_10.rawmk4 01_36.rawmk4 20_42.rawmk4 21_49.rawmk4 22_44.rawmk4 00_13.rawmk4 01_39.rawmk4 20_45.rawmk4 21_52.rawmk4 22_47.rawmk4 00_16.rawmk4 01_42.rawmk4 20_48.rawmk4 21_54.rawmk4 22_50.rawmk4 00_19.rawmk4 01_45.rawmk4 20_51.rawmk4 21_57.rawmk4 23_44.rawmk4 00_22.rawmk4 01_48.rawmk4 20_54.rawmk4 22_00.rawmk4 23_47.rawmk4 00_25.rawmk4 01_54.rawmk4 20_57.rawmk4 22_03.rawmk4 23_50.rawmk4 00_28.rawmk4 01_58.rawmk4 21_00.rawmk4 22_06.rawmk4 23_52.rawmk4 00_31.rawmk4 20_07.rawmk4 21_03.rawmk4 22_09.rawmk4 23_55.rawmk4 00_34.rawmk4 20_10.rawmk4 21_06.rawmk4 22_12.rawmk4 23_58.rawmk4 00_37.rawmk4 20_13.rawmk4 21_09.rawmk4 22_15.rawmk4 c21_12.rawmk4 00_40.rawmk4 20_16.rawmk4 21_15.rawmk4 22_18.rawmk4 c21_18.rawmk4 00_42.rawmk4 20_19.rawmk4 21_21.rawmk4 22_21.rawmk4 c21_24.rawmk4 00_45.rawmk4 20_22.rawmk4 21_27.rawmk4 22_24.rawmk4 00_48.rawmk4 20_25.rawmk4 21_31.rawmk4 22_27.rawmk4 00_51.rawmk4 20_28.rawmk4 21_34.rawmk4 22_30.rawmk4 01_25.rawmk4 20_31.rawmk4 21_37.rawmk4 22_33.rawmk4