----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Oct 21 16:34:09 GMT 2013 Year: 13 Doy: 294 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Mon Oct 21 16:34:12 GMT 2013 temp 45f, wind 15mph from SW, thin cirrus covering the sky. ___end___ Mon Oct 21 16:55:10 GMT 2013: PSPT Start Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Oct 21 19:03:52 GMT 2013 Changed zero point offsets to be set in arc sec. Inital test seem to show things stable. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Oct 21 21:37:23 GMT 2013 This morining ~7:30-8:00am the sun was well centered with the zero point RA:5 Dec:-4, not at 11:30am the zeropoint appears to have moved to RA:15 DEC:-20 ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Oct 21 23:12:23 GMT 2013 Zeropoint is now RA:0 Dec:-25 ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Oct 21 23:13:34 GMT 2013 Guider seems stable in winds that are now approaching 25mph from the WEST ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Oct 22 00:11:27 GMT 2013 Taking some "garbage" k-cor data to test some fits processing code. Lens cover is closed and the sky is still kind of crummy. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Oct 22 00:30:13 GMT 2013 Guider is now ossilatinged I am not sure if this is more related to 15mph winds from the west or low dim intensity due to cirrus. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Oct 22 00:38:56 GMT 2013 Looks like it was mostly low dim signal since the oscillations went away as the signal came back. And if anything the wind seems to have increased. ___end___ Tue Oct 22 02:15:54 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol Tue Oct 22 02:15:58 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol