----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon May 25 16:03:23 GMT 2015 Year: 15 Doy: 145 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Mon May 25 16:03:27 GMT 2015 Vog is at about 12,000-13,000ft, otherwise clear skies. Temp 45F with windspeed at about 10mph from the South-Southwest. ___end___ Mon May 25 16:46:35 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Mon May 25 16:50:21 GMT 2015 Sky is too bright for Kcor. Idled for now. ___end___ PSPT COMMENT BY waters: Mon May 25 17:00:56 GMT 2015 By passed morning start up for Pspt and went to dailt ops. Found the Sun just fine. Pspt started! ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY waters: Mon May 25 17:03:31 GMT 2015 Sky brightness is barely affecting Comp data. Will keep an eye on it. ___end___ Mon May 25 18:11:58 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Mon May 25 18:11:06 GMT 2015 Brightness has faded down quite a bit. Kcor started. ___end___ Mon May 25 19:00:41 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Mon May 25 19:00:42 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20150323.ini KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Mon May 25 19:07:13 GMT 2015 Not entirely sure what the 'bunny ears' on the data is but you can see it eventually gets pushed out, leaving a clean image behind. huh... ___end___ Mon May 25 19:17:44 GMT 2015 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon May 25 19:18:54 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon May 25 20:19:33 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Mon May 25 20:19:37 GMT 2015 CoMP Paused for clouds Mon May 25 20:25:50 GMT 2015 CoMP Restarted from pause GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon May 25 20:19:56 GMT 2015 Dome reconfigured. ___end___ Mon May 25 20:26:29 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon May 25 20:47:37 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Mon May 25 20:47:49 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Mon May 25 20:50:40 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon May 25 20:50:45 GMT 2015 SGS and Comp adjusted. ___end___ Mon May 25 20:53:26 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Mon May 25 20:52:22 GMT 2015 Wind is coming from the West now and is gusting in the 20mph range. Will keep an eye on things. ___end___ Tue May 26 00:45:07 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Tue May 26 00:45:08 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Tue May 26 00:52:39 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Tue May 26 00:54:11 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Tue May 26 01:02:53 GMT 2015 Had a couple of high schoolers come up for a tour. Stayed a bit longer than planned but they had fun I think. Yeah! ___end___ ****Possible CME in Progress waters******: Tue May 26 01:04:19 GMT 2015 At PA 90, starting at 21:38 UT, a slow moving cme can be seen starting to launch. Can be seen in GONG and KCOR. ___end___ You can check out the image data at: http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu Tue May 26 01:21:51 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Tue May 26 01:22:29 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol