----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Mar 28 16:57:23 GMT 2014 Year: 14 Doy: 087 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Fri Mar 28 16:57:27 GMT 2014 temp 32f, wind 7mph from SE, clear skies above but there is a high tempature inversion layer at about 9,000ft that is holding down thick vog. ___end___ Fri Mar 28 17:00:09 GMT 2014: PSPT Start Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Mar 28 17:28:19 GMT 2014 Did the March 17 CoMP and Kcor occulter change a little late.... CoMP is now using occulter #31 (was #35) Labview default value was changed to capture this. Kcor occulter was changed from 1.018.9 to 1.006.9 changes were also made in labivew to capture this value. ___end___ Fri Mar 28 17:31:30 GMT 2014 COMP Start Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Mar 28 17:32:52 GMT 2014 For the last week Kcor was aligned in the morning with guider RA offset of -50, after the occulter swap this morning the offset is -30. I am not sure if this is important, but it may be related to the swap. ___end___ Fri Mar 28 17:47:38 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Mar 28 18:21:34 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Fri Mar 28 18:21:35 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg.ini Fri Mar 28 18:37:19 GMT 2014 KCOR End Calibration Script Fri Mar 28 18:37:35 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Mar 28 18:37:36 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Mar 28 18:55:51 GMT 2014 Cirrus moving toward the direction of the sun. And the vog is starting to move up from the saddle. ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Mar 28 19:05:46 GMT 2014 Ran out of disk space on e: deleting Feb data and restarting. ___end___ Fri Mar 28 19:05:58 GMT 2014 COMP Start Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Mar 28 19:17:02 GMT 2014 It looks like the comp data disk purge script got deleted. ___end___ ****Possible CME in Progress berkey******: Fri Mar 28 19:54:25 GMT 2014 CME launced from PA65 at 19UT ___end___ You can check out the image data at: http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu ****EVENT COMMENT BY berkey**** : Fri Mar 28 19:59:35 GMT 2014 Big flare seen at 19:30UT around sunspot group 2017 ___end___ Fri Mar 28 20:07:57 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Mar 28 20:05:44 GMT 2014 Clouds. ___end___ Fri Mar 28 20:06:32 GMT 2014 COMP End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Mar 29 02:06:17 GMT 2014 We got a new windows 7 laptop for shabar, but labview was not installed. I tried to build an executable from the shabar labveiw install, but had trouble and tried to install a servcie pack which apparently killed the liscsense. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Mar 29 04:02:42 GMT 2014 Waited for some lost hikers, everyone is back but their jeep is stuck up the mountain. I will take them down to people. The are very well due to the fog now. ___end___