----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Sep 20 17:11:10 GMT 2013 Year: 13 Doy: 263 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Fri Sep 20 17:11:11 GMT 2013 Clear skies, temp 45f, wind 5mph from SW ___end___ **KCOR PROBLEM COMMENT BY berkey **: Fri Sep 20 17:11:26 GMT 2013 With kcor idled and only the MC4U controller vi running; labview caught the following error: Expection occured in SPiiPlusCOM660.Channel.1 Code 132 Communications initalization failure in K-Cor - ACS -Connect.vi->Kcor Mechanism_Digital_Input.vi->K-cor MC4u Controller.vi ___end___ Fri Sep 20 17:31:39 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:31:57 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:34:24 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:40:27 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:40:39 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:43:08 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:43:19 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:45:46 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:45:57 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:47:59 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:48:09 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:49:41 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:49:54 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:52:32 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:52:44 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 17:54:58 GMT 2013 KCOR End Synoptic Patrol Fri Sep 20 19:27:10 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Sep 20 19:53:23 GMT 2013 It now appears that starting and stopping socketcam avging is what gives us our flips in pol states. Assuming this is true, we are attempting to take a full data set today. Using k-cor stand anlong image acquistion.vi We started socketcam avging and found the left camera had the state [Bright, Dim, Mid, Mid] one of the common states we saw during the start/stop socketcams test earlier today. Then while socketcam was streaming away we moved stages in and out of the beam to perform the mlso-calibration.ini sequence. Pausing at each Image=In to take at least 3 good (stages not moving) images. Scott has the file numbers that correspond to each step. We then verified the system was stillin the [Bring, Dim, Mid Mid] state this was correct so we beleive socketcam and the modulator remained synced during the calibration steps. Optics were then moved out of the beam to start todays synoptic observations. Note to find the mod states, we put the diffuser and polarizer into the beam with the polarizer homed and set to 0degs. ___end___ Fri Sep 20 20:08:18 GMT 2013: PSPT Start Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Sep 20 20:21:38 GMT 2013 Stopping synoptic data ___end___ Fri Sep 20 20:49:17 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Sep 20 21:07:29 GMT 2013 Restarting synoptic data and confirming [bright,dim,mid,mid] ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Sep 20 21:08:14 GMT 2013 image 210938 was the first good one. ___end___ Fri Sep 20 21:27:21 GMT 2013: PSPT Start Patrol Fri Sep 20 23:36:52 GMT 2013: PSPT Start Patrol Fri Sep 20 23:48:17 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Fri Sep 20 23:48:18 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol Sat Sep 21 01:30:05 GMT 2013: PSPT Start Patrol Sat Sep 21 02:25:45 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Sat Sep 21 02:31:51 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol Sat Sep 21 02:31:55 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol Sat Sep 21 02:31:59 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Sep 21 02:02:30 GMT 2013 Ending synoptic data at 020341.fits Modulation state stayed constant that whole time. ___end___