----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Jul 29 18:24:54 GMT 2015 Year: 15 Doy: 210 Observer: berkey Wed Jul 29 18:26:34 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jul 29 18:45:39 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Wed Jul 29 18:52:11 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Wed Jul 29 18:52:11 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Jul 29 18:53:12 GMT 2015 Opening comp to install the polarizer in the calpol rotator ___end___ Wed Jul 29 18:56:14 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Wed Jul 29 18:56:25 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Wed Jul 29 19:02:46 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Wed Jul 29 19:04:22 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Wed Jul 29 19:04:17 GMT 2015 Temp: 55.9f, Humidity: 13%, Pressure: 28.713in, Wind: 6mph from NE, Skies: clear with an inversion layer at about 10,000 that appears to be rising. ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Jul 29 19:04:46 GMT 2015 Cover back on comp. Running cal_pol for real this time. ___end___ Wed Jul 29 19:05:21 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jul 29 19:06:20 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jul 29 19:25:03 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Wed Jul 29 19:25:03 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Wed Jul 29 19:25:26 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Jul 29 19:25:22 GMT 2015 pulling comp cover to install the retarder. ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Jul 29 19:30:17 GMT 2015 Cover back on and retarder in beam. Taking more datas ___end___ Wed Jul 29 19:30:33 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Jul 29 19:53:01 GMT 2015 removing cal retarder. ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Jul 29 19:55:33 GMT 2015 retarder out taking cal_pol data ___end___ Wed Jul 29 19:55:47 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Wed Jul 29 19:55:47 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Wed Jul 29 19:56:10 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Wed Jul 29 19:56:24 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Wed Jul 29 20:16:32 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Wed Jul 29 20:16:33 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Wed Jul 29 20:16:56 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Wed Jul 29 20:19:41 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Jul 29 20:19:36 GMT 2015 Polarizer out taking cal with no special optics. ___end___ Wed Jul 29 20:25:52 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jul 29 20:26:09 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Wed Jul 29 20:32:05 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Jul 29 20:33:06 GMT 2015 Dome reconfigured. ___end___ Wed Jul 29 20:44:37 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Wed Jul 29 20:44:51 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jul 29 20:44:53 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20150323.ini Wed Jul 29 21:02:04 GMT 2015 KCOR End Calibration Script Wed Jul 29 21:02:21 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jul 29 21:02:23 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jul 29 22:02:42 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jul 29 22:03:00 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Jul 29 22:07:23 GMT 2015 This morning we reinstalled the second 36979-01 board in the ESP-3000 controller to give back programatic control to the calpol rotator. This had been removed July 25th of last year, and send back to Boulder for repair on Gregs visit to do the Kcor camera stage upgrades. ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Jul 29 22:09:14 GMT 2015 Fixed the ESP 3000 magic numbers for detecting the opal position back to 604/406 which are the appropriate numbers for opal in/out when the calpol rotator board is installed. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Jul 29 22:10:55 GMT 2015 Pausing observing on all systems to do a comp optics inspection. ___end___ Thu Jul 30 01:09:57 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jul 30 01:15:27 GMT 2015 Took apart filter wheel 1 and clean the 3 interference filters front and back with DI water and Isopropyl alcohol. Cleaned the collimation lens with the air compressor. Cleaned the camera entrance window with the air compressor. During the process we adjusted the re-imagining lens baffle. Afterward we realigned the re-imaging lens in X and Y and rotated the camera clockwise looking at the sun by about 5 degrees to align fit the two coronal images onto the detector better. This also squared the camera up to the aft bulkhead. During inspections the occulting post was rotated to better put the light on the head dump, but this causes the occulter to move w.r.t. the field stop causing out of round images. The occulting post was rotated back to its nominal pre-inspection position and things are looking better. ___end___ Thu Jul 30 01:21:04 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Thu Jul 30 01:24:36 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Thu Jul 30 01:31:41 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jul 30 01:38:16 GMT 2015 Leaving early for actually valid reasons. ___end___