----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Sep 30 16:36:55 GMT 2013 Year: 13 Doy: 273 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Mon Sep 30 16:36:57 GMT 2013 Clear skies, temp 39f, no wind ___end___ Mon Sep 30 16:45:37 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol Mon Sep 30 16:49:38 GMT 2013: PSPT Start Patrol Mon Sep 30 17:54:10 GMT 2013: PSPT Start Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 30 18:42:05 GMT 2013 Changing from Bright Dark Mid Mid.... To Mid Bright Dark Dark. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 30 18:43:01 GMT 2013 Mid Bright Dark Mid should be the "correct" startup modulation ___end___ Mon Sep 30 18:59:00 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg.ini Mon Sep 30 19:16:25 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon Sep 30 19:42:52 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 30 19:43:43 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Mon Sep 30 19:43:44 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol Mon Sep 30 19:59:14 GMT 2013 KCOR End Patrol Mon Sep 30 19:58:16 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Mon Sep 30 20:04:03 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol Mon Sep 30 20:06:01 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 30 20:16:19 GMT 2013 Tempature inversion failed early today, clouds starting to come up near the observatory. ___end___ Mon Sep 30 20:45:55 GMT 2013 KCOR End Patrol Mon Sep 30 20:44:46 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Sep 30 20:49:20 GMT 2013 Main dome closed. PSPT to follow if condtions continue to worsen. ___end___ Mon Sep 30 21:49:19 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol Mon Sep 30 21:49:23 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol Mon Sep 30 21:49:27 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol Mon Sep 30 21:49:31 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol Tue Oct 01 00:24:30 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg.ini Tue Oct 01 00:41:38 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Oct 1 00:30:34 GMT 2013 I have noticed that during normal guiding operations the DEC position randomly works it's way towards the Negative EOT limit. I wonder if we have a sligtly bad polar alignment on the spar. Since we observe from sunrise to some fraction of the day if we did have a polar mis-alignment we would see the dec preferential head toward one of the limits as we approached Local Solar Noon and at which point it would start tending back to the middle of the DEC range. Assuming this daily drift toward -EOT doesn't effect the data and is something we find to be real after a bit more monitoring. I plan to reverse the logic of the SGS home DEC code so it first drives toward the +EOT limit while looking for home instead of the -EOT limit (as it is currently impelemented). ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Oct 1 00:44:29 GMT 2013 I am currently running the calibration scripts without running socketcam, (or saving any data) to watch the fits headers change. ___end___ Tue Oct 01 00:47:49 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-2.ini Tue Oct 01 00:51:24 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Oct 1 00:58:30 GMT 2013 Now doing some dome closed observations to look at SGS signals. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Oct 1 01:02:27 GMT 2013 Moved the Get Dim vi from the Timeout state to the main loop state in the observing gui. The SGS data is now updating. ___end___