----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Jan 9 17:38:23 GMT 2015 Year: 15 Doy: 009 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Fri Jan 9 17:38:27 GMT 2015 temp 40f, wind 10 mph from SE, clear skies ___end___ Fri Jan 09 17:57:40 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 9 18:01:21 GMT 2015 Alice updated socketcam last night/early this morning. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 9 18:03:06 GMT 2015 Getting a lot of SPii errors morning attempting a reboot. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 9 18:09:12 GMT 2015 Getting circular acqusition errors on socketcam startup. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 9 18:10:51 GMT 2015 Restarting the labivew observing program let socketcam start properly this time. ___end___ Fri Jan 09 18:14:45 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 9 18:11:53 GMT 2015 Lots of lagging in socketcam. Communication with acsmotion suggests that the SPii plus failures we are seeing typically happen when the client application "hammers" the SPii with to many requests. Or the comptuer is overtaxed by some process with memory leaks or other problems. Perhaps the lagging and SPI crashes are related and caused by malware or somethign. ___end___ PSPT COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 9 19:39:15 GMT 2015 Installed the pspt motor. But there appears to be a wiring issue in need of more troubleshooting since I cant seem to move it left. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 9 19:40:17 GMT 2015 Stopping the SuperFetch services fixed a lot ofthe lagging. Since stopping superfetch the biggest lag value I have seen is 70 ___end___ Fri Jan 09 20:55:44 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jan 09 20:55:45 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jan 09 20:59:26 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Fri Jan 09 20:59:19 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jan 09 21:01:56 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 9 21:02:08 GMT 2015 Realigned sgs ___end___ Fri Jan 09 21:05:05 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jan 09 21:05:07 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Fri Jan 09 21:05:07 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg.ini Fri Jan 09 21:20:35 GMT 2015 KCOR End Calibration Script Fri Jan 09 21:20:51 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jan 09 21:20:52 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jan 09 22:30:00 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 9 23:14:28 GMT 2015 Tried to take some measurments for the IG. Aft optics box cover was removed and poked around with some tape measures. ___end___ Fri Jan 09 23:15:35 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jan 09 23:59:44 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jan 09 23:59:44 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Jan 10 00:06:31 GMT 2015 Vog and some cloulds comming up the mountain from the saddle ___end___ Sat Jan 10 00:32:45 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 10 00:32:44 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Sat Jan 10 00:33:43 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Sat Jan 10 00:33:59 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Jan 10 00:33:31 GMT 2015 Realigned SGS ___end___ Sat Jan 10 00:34:30 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Jan 10 00:34:02 GMT 2015 Looks like we are getting enough clouds to degrade kcor ___end___ Sat Jan 10 01:02:37 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Sat Jan 10 01:28:10 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 10 01:28:43 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol PSPT COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Jan 10 01:28:01 GMT 2015 I think I miss-wired the pspt motor. Dome rotated but there was some smoke from the produrding module (I tihnk there is a startup capictor under it), and some sort of liquid (dielectric from the cap?) came out. I hope I didn't ruin a second motor; hopefully Allen will know how to get this sorted out. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Jan 10 01:31:48 GMT 2015 Clouds came in so pausing instruments. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Jan 10 02:41:38 GMT 2015 With superfetch off (and now disabled) the spii crashes seemed to go away and teh frame lagging was resonable 0-50ish. :) ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Jan 10 02:42:22 GMT 2015 Optics box was opened again this afternoon to get a couple more measuremnts for the IG. These measuremnts will drive the new camera mounts to be installed later this year. ___end___