----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Dec 11 17:14:55 GMT 2013 Year: 13 Doy: 345 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Wed Dec 11 17:14:58 GMT 2013 temp 44f, wind 18mph from S, clear skies ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 17:15:13 GMT 2013 Hepa's off. Taking streaming data dark current test. ___end___ Wed Dec 11 17:27:38 GMT 2013: PSPT Start Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 17:41:23 GMT 2013 Hepa's back on ___end___ Wed Dec 11 17:55:55 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol Wed Dec 11 18:05:29 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Dec 11 19:20:03 GMT 2013 KCOR End Patrol Wed Dec 11 19:20:04 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg.ini KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 19:18:11 GMT 2013 Modulator temp was 35.1 this morning, but was reporting 0 becasue the USB Server was off. It is back on now ___end___ Wed Dec 11 19:36:05 GMT 2013 KCOR End Calibration Script Wed Dec 11 19:36:21 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Dec 11 19:36:21 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Dec 11 21:09:36 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Wed Dec 11 21:09:39 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol Wed Dec 11 21:33:17 GMT 2013 KCOR End Patrol Wed Dec 11 21:34:36 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Wed Dec 11 21:36:21 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 21:35:20 GMT 2013 Adjusted the sgs offsets to match comp. Socketcam allowed to continue running with lens cover in during the adjustment. ___end___ Wed Dec 11 21:36:52 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Dec 11 22:45:42 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Wed Dec 11 22:45:10 GMT 2013 KCOR End Patrol Wed Dec 11 22:47:07 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 22:46:35 GMT 2013 Realigned sgs again ___end___ Wed Dec 11 22:49:44 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol Wed Dec 11 23:31:10 GMT 2013 KCOR End Patrol Wed Dec 11 23:40:57 GMT 2013 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 23:39:28 GMT 2013 Attempted to blow off the bandpass filter to attempt to remove the diffraction artifact south of the sun ___end___ Wed Dec 11 23:41:11 GMT 2013: PSPT Start Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 23:41:56 GMT 2013 There now seesm to be a darken band to the bottem right of camera0 bottome left of camera1 (at least in the raw images). I am not sure if this was a feature before I attemped to the cleaning ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Dec 11 23:44:53 GMT 2013 Bandpass intervention failed to remove the diffraction feature. If there is dust on the solar side of the optic; it is unlikely it can be blown off without removing the filter from the telescope ___end___ Thu Dec 12 02:02:06 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol Thu Dec 12 02:02:09 GMT 2013 COMP Start Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Dec 12 02:10:31 GMT 2013 For some reason there is a lot of dynamism of the "corona" in the south of the quick view gifs this afternoon. This is seen in Alice's reduction code and when I do a quick reduction by hand; so I think this is actually some sort of feature in the fits data. ___end___ Thu Dec 12 02:53:56 GMT 2013 KCOR End Patrol Thu Dec 12 02:54:45 GMT 2013 COMP End Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Dec 12 02:15:11 GMT 2013 Looks like there is a small cme/cavity forming near PA280 starting at around 0UT ___end___ Thu Dec 12 02:54:40 GMT 2013: PSPT Abort Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Dec 12 03:07:49 GMT 2013 Met someone from NASA that wants to put a laser communication module on Mauna Loa, if it comes they will be bring a 10+mbit fiber to MLO. Hopefully this works out. ___end___