----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Mar 10 19:17:51 GMT 2015 Year: 15 Doy: 069 Observer: stueben WEATHER COMMENT: stueben: Tue Mar 10 19:18:05 GMT 2015 Clear, wind southeast 15-20 mph, temp 39F. The last mile of the road is very slick with snow and ice. We parked before the last steep slope and Ben ferried us up in his 4wd truck. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY stueben: Tue Mar 10 19:21:39 GMT 2015 Pspt, kcor and comp are all running. Internet and phones are down but we have called HawTel and they have a technician on the way. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Mar 10 19:35:08 GMT 2015 Installing "tape" lyot stop on the camera lens for a test with dennis. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Mar 10 19:36:53 GMT 2015 Tape stop is ~5mm cricle made of masking tape being centered at the alignment limit of a Mark 1 Dennis. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Mar 10 19:40:08 GMT 2015 Now taking data with the lyot Starting 19:41:06 Ending at some point later. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Mar 10 20:00:54 GMT 2015 A cloud is comming in so we are stop observing for observatory work. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY stueben: Tue Mar 10 22:39:04 GMT 2015 Internet and phones have been back for a while. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY mlso: Tue Mar 10 22:55:04 GMT 2015 Before lunch the back end was removed. Including camera/beam splitter assembly, shutter assembly, modulator and field lens. Perparing to install the laser for O1/field lens alignment. Field lens w/o occutler assembly is ready to be reinstalled. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY mlso: Tue Mar 10 22:56:51 GMT 2015 RA assembly has been comlpetely gutted. After lunch Greg will start buildin up the new assembly. ___end___ GONG COMMENT BY mlso: Tue Mar 10 23:21:10 GMT 2015 Gong turret bagged. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY mlso: Tue Mar 10 23:24:03 GMT 2015 at about 20UT before we started Kcor/RA work we pinned the spar at zenith and locked it in place. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY mlso: Tue Mar 10 23:24:37 GMT 2015 Looks like the kcor/comp automatic observing comments specify mlsoserver by its dns name. So this morning when the interent was down the comments didnt get sent :( For now I change the comp code to point at the IP address not the dns name, I will fix KCor when we turn the computer back on. ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY mlso: Tue Mar 10 23:26:47 GMT 2015 testing comp's comments now, Data collected after 20UT will be dome darks. ___end___ Tue Mar 10 23:28:10 GMT 2015 COMP End CoMP COMMENT BY mlso: Tue Mar 10 23:29:39 GMT 2015 Cool it worked :) ___end___