----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Oct 24 16:49:11 GMT 2014 Year: 14 Doy: 297 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Fri Oct 24 16:49:15 GMT 2014 temp 45f, wind 10mph from the south, clear skies. ___end___ Fri Oct 24 17:01:29 GMT 2014: PSPT Start Patrol Fri Oct 24 17:24:34 GMT 2014 COMP Start Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 17:31:12 GMT 2014 Comp camera rotated about 5 degrees clockwise and the X-Y position of the re-imaging lens was moved to center the solar images on the detector. ___end___ Fri Oct 24 17:38:45 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Oct 24 17:46:53 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 17:45:11 GMT 2014 Starting to vary the exposure time / number of averages to see if we can find a nice compermise. Note the following data may have the wrong modulation. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 17:48:53 GMT 2014 averages of 170 with 2.5 msec frames seems to have satruation. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 17:50:31 GMT 2014 2.5 msec with 85 averages also seems to saturate the inner corona. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 17:51:39 GMT 2014 2msec looks better but we still see saturation. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 18:11:48 GMT 2014 Per the results of the testing we are going to try to run kcor at 1.1ms exposures with 256ms averages for a couple of hours. ___end___ Fri Oct 24 18:19:15 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 18:33:19 GMT 2014 Did some low tech solar viewing of the sunspots in active region 2192. Hopefully we get some tourist up here today, so we can (safely) show then nake eye visible sun spots. ___end___ ****EVENT COMMENT BY berkey**** : Fri Oct 24 18:34:48 GMT 2014 The hedgerow prominace in the middle of the sun just north of the equator has an interesting look to it. It looks almost like a centepide or something, straight body with peridic feet sticking out either side at near regular spacing. ___end___ Fri Oct 24 19:21:58 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Fri Oct 24 19:21:59 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg.ini Fri Oct 24 19:37:56 GMT 2014 KCOR End Calibration Script Fri Oct 24 19:38:13 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Oct 24 19:38:13 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Oct 24 20:22:32 GMT 2014 COMP End Patrol Fri Oct 24 20:22:32 GMT 2014 COMP Start Patrol Fri Oct 24 20:37:04 GMT 2014 COMP End Patrol Fri Oct 24 20:42:35 GMT 2014 COMP Start Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 20:42:15 GMT 2014 Realigned sgs ___end___ Fri Oct 24 20:46:13 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 21:18:20 GMT 2014 Very big patch seen in CaK in the middle of active region 2192. ___end___ ****EVENT COMMENT BY berkey**** : Fri Oct 24 21:39:55 GMT 2014 Big flare from AR2192 at 21:00UT ___end___ Fri Oct 24 22:45:31 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 22:45:59 GMT 2014 Realigning sgs ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 22:48:37 GMT 2014 Realigning sgs ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 22:50:47 GMT 2014 taking 5 seconds of kcor streaming data at 1.1ms. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 22:51:21 GMT 2014 First start was a mistake, lens cover was in the beam. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 22:52:53 GMT 2014 starting the 1.1 ms kcor streaming data now. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 24 22:55:06 GMT 2014 Starting kcor observing again with 512averages and 1.1ms exposure time. ___end___ Fri Oct 24 23:02:28 GMT 2014 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Oct 24 23:20:32 GMT 2014 COMP End Patrol Fri Oct 24 23:21:05 GMT 2014 COMP Start Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Oct 25 01:33:37 GMT 2014 light haze is degrading images in kcor and comp d___end___ Sat Oct 25 01:56:37 GMT 2014 KCOR End Patrol Sat Oct 25 01:57:02 GMT 2014 COMP End Patrol Sat Oct 25 02:07:34 GMT 2014: PSPT Abort Patrol Sat Oct 25 02:07:38 GMT 2014: PSPT Abort Patrol