----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Sep 29 17:04:18 GMT 2014 Year: 14 Doy: 272 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Mon Sep 29 17:04:22 GMT 2014 Thick cirrus covering most of the sky at present. Temp 41F with windspeed at 6mph coming from the South. Waiting for better skies to start up instruments. Will hold off on Pspt start-up till cirrus has thinned a bit. ___end___ GONG COMMENT BY waters: Mon Sep 29 17:08:05 GMT 2014 Unstowed Gong and cleaned off the window with Bens supervision. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Sep 29 17:18:15 GMT 2014 Moved into thinner cirrus, starting up Pspt. ___end___ Mon Sep 29 17:31:47 GMT 2014: PSPT Start Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Sep 29 18:06:11 GMT 2014 Cirrus has moved on, starting Kcor, Comp and Shabar. ___end___ Mon Sep 29 18:08:45 GMT 2014 COMP Start Patrol Mon Sep 29 18:13:08 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 29 18:40:00 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Mon Sep 29 18:45:51 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 29 18:46:32 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Mon Sep 29 18:47:03 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Sep 29 18:49:24 GMT 2014 Pushed through a bit of cirrus. Here's to hoping it stays clear. ___end___ Mon Sep 29 18:55:47 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Mon Sep 29 18:57:15 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 29 19:04:59 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Mon Sep 29 19:05:57 GMT 2014 COMP End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Sep 29 19:06:32 GMT 2014 Going through a bit more cirrus, Comp, Kcor and Shabar idled. ___end___ Mon Sep 29 19:13:20 GMT 2014 COMP Start Patrol Mon Sep 29 19:12:59 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 29 19:13:59 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Mon Sep 29 19:15:23 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 29 19:15:53 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Mon Sep 29 19:17:31 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 29 19:22:59 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Mon Sep 29 19:23:38 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 29 19:30:45 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Mon Sep 29 19:30:46 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg.ini Mon Sep 29 19:46:46 GMT 2014 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon Sep 29 19:46:56 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 29 20:16:54 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Mon Sep 29 20:18:04 GMT 2014 COMP End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Sep 29 20:31:33 GMT 2014 When trying to reconfigure the dome, the bottom shutter wouldn't release from the bar. We're removing the washers on the bottom two wheels of the top shutter to see if we can straighten them out and see if that fixes the problem. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Sep 29 20:50:31 GMT 2014 We either reduced or got rid of some of the popping noise that the dome would do ever once in a while. We also took the washers off the left side wheel right above the bottom wheels of the top shutter. We'll see what happens. Some clouds are coming in from the South. Keeping a close eye on them. ___end___ Mon Sep 29 21:12:23 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 29 21:12:52 GMT 2014 COMP Start Patrol Mon Sep 29 21:13:16 GMT 2014 COMP End Patrol Mon Sep 29 21:13:34 GMT 2014 COMP Start Patrol Mon Sep 29 21:25:30 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Mon Sep 29 21:26:06 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Sep 29 21:26:37 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Mon Sep 29 21:28:02 GMT 2014 COMP End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Sep 29 21:28:58 GMT 2014 Clouds from the Southwest came up. Idling Pspt, Shabar, Comp, Kcor. ___end___ Mon Sep 29 21:29:53 GMT 2014: PSPT Abort Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Sep 29 21:45:32 GMT 2014 Thunder can be heard towards the South of the building, just over the ridge. Closing domes just in case. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Sep 29 23:45:01 GMT 2014 Fog rolling in. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Tue Sep 30 00:00:21 GMT 2014 Let there be a bit of hail. ___end___ GONG COMMENT BY waters: Tue Sep 30 00:19:57 GMT 2014 Stowed Gong and put the cover over the turret. Always fun to try and do stuff will it's hailing! ___end___