----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Jul 31 16:22:24 GMT 2015 Year: 15 Doy: 212 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Fri Jul 31 16:22:57 GMT 2015 Temp: 49.4f, Humidity: 22%, Pressure: 28.604in, Wind: 5mph from SE, Skies: Clear ___end___ Fri Jul 31 16:30:28 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 16:33:12 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 16:33:12 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 16:35:47 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 16:40:11 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 16:53:30 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jul 31 17:02:53 GMT 2015 The software changes made yesterday change the logic of how/when we decide to put in an ND filter. Previously we hard coded if the observing wavelengths were 1074 or 1079 put in the clear filter and if we were in 1083 put in the ND1.0 filter. In the new logic to change the ND filter one must issue an ND filter change recipe; and the logic form rotate calpol recipe was copied to make this work. Recipe files have a header line which gives the cadiance of reads, for the move ND filter this can be anything since we wont be doing reads. Then 1 or more lines with 4 columns which we assign the names: beam [int], wavelength[float], polarization[int], datatype [int]. For science data (datatype=0) all four columns are meaningful. For move the ND filter (datatype=9), the wavelength column is used to pick the filter position and the beam/polarization values are meaningless. This morning I ran test_nd.cbk which moves the ND Filter wheel through 3 positions and got the expected results with decreasing counts as we added more ND into the beam. See: 20150731.063130.fts->20150731.063249.fts. ___end___ **PSPT PROBLEM COMMENT BY berkey** : Fri Jul 31 17:03:26 GMT 2015 ND filter position does not appear to be captured in the fits headers. ___end___ Fri Jul 31 17:07:46 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jul 31 17:08:54 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 17:11:29 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 17:19:57 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 17:22:07 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 17:39:35 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 17:41:35 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 17:44:02 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 17:46:02 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 17:55:06 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 17:57:07 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 17:58:59 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:00:59 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:02:35 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:04:10 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:14:51 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:16:51 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:20:43 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:21:33 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:21:35 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20150323.ini Fri Jul 31 18:23:18 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:30:35 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:33:10 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:35:22 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:37:32 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:38:42 GMT 2015 KCOR End Calibration Script Fri Jul 31 18:38:59 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:39:00 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:44:40 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:47:15 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:47:15 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 18:49:50 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:02:45 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:05:20 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:11:43 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:14:19 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:14:19 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:14:48 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:29:29 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:32:04 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:33:43 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:35:43 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:44:22 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:46:57 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:48:01 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:49:26 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:51:38 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:54:13 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:54:13 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 19:55:38 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:00:43 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:03:18 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:03:19 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:05:54 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:05:54 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:08:29 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:08:30 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:09:20 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:12:10 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:14:42 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:15:06 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:15:13 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:17:48 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:21:24 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Fri Jul 31 20:30:08 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jul 31 20:34:14 GMT 2015 Moved dome shutter and realigned the SGS ___end___ Fri Jul 31 20:42:50 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Sat Aug 01 00:23:40 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Sat Aug 01 00:23:58 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Sat Aug 01 00:28:03 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol **CoMP PROBLEM COMMENT BY berkey** : Sat Aug 01 00:28:06 GMT 2015 Tried to get the ND Filter position in to CoMP fits headers. After a lot of effort I got a header item into the fits header. But the value is stuck at "7", and after a few hours of playing with the code I cant figure out how to programmatically set it. I have decide to just get some data for a while before going ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Aug 01 00:28:20 GMT 2015 Re-aglined sgs to KCor and comp ___end___ Sat Aug 01 00:29:28 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Aug 01 00:36:49 GMT 2015 Data before 20:42:50UT (10:42HST) on comp was all engineering. The cookbook to run was test_nd.chk and it was not always run to completion or a few times run multiple times since all of the activity at that time was troubleshooting the ND fits header. ___end___ Sat Aug 01 01:55:19 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Sat Aug 01 01:55:48 GMT 2015 CoMP Paused for clouds GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Aug 01 02:01:54 GMT 2015 Adjusted dome shutter. ___end___ Sat Aug 01 02:02:05 GMT 2015 CoMP Restarted from pause Sat Aug 01 02:03:02 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Sat Aug 01 03:10:58 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Aug 01 03:11:10 GMT 2015 Looks like the comp occulter stage is slipping due to gravity due to the far west pointing of the spar. Stopping comp observations for the day to go back and look at the ND Filter issues. ___end___ Sat Aug 01 03:18:26 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: test_nd.cbk CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Aug 01 03:19:31 GMT 2015 Added a quick feature to write the cookbook being run into the log when starting Patrol. (See the above comment about test_nd.cbk) ___end___ Sat Aug 01 03:20:02 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Sat Aug 01 03:21:35 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: test_nd.cbk Sat Aug 01 03:26:09 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Sat Aug 01 03:30:39 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: test_nd.cbk Sat Aug 01 03:35:34 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: comp.cbk Sat Aug 01 03:35:57 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Sat Aug 01 03:36:04 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: test_nd.cbk Sat Aug 01 03:44:08 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: test_nd.cbk Sat Aug 01 03:46:43 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Sat Aug 01 03:46:44 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: test_nd.cbk Sat Aug 01 03:47:12 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Sat Aug 01 03:48:27 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: test_nd.cbk Sat Aug 01 03:51:02 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Sat Aug 01 03:53:59 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: test_nd2.cbk Sat Aug 01 03:57:28 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Sat Aug 01 03:57:28 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: test_nd2.cbk Sat Aug 01 03:57:38 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Aug 01 04:01:24 GMT 2015 WOOOT!!! I can update the ND Filter keyword in the fits files (sometimes). It looks like my problem this morning was there was some sort of difference in the measurement cluster that gets writing to disk in the Update Run Recipe.vi and the measurement cluster we try read in Combine All Recipe Ingredients into a Single fits file. There may have been an issue with ND FIlter being a float on one side and an enum on the other. The solution I came up with was to make a type def out of the cluster and to initialize clusters in both sub vi's to have the same format. ___end___ Sat Aug 01 04:02:57 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: test_nd2.cbk Sat Aug 01 04:06:18 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Sat Aug 01 04:16:43 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: test_nd2.cbk Sat Aug 01 04:20:12 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Sat Aug 01 04:24:15 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: test_nd.cbk CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Aug 01 04:24:20 GMT 2015 Looks like it wasn't the first write that was the problem, at position 8 was truncated down to 7 by a bad enum I made this morning. Problem was solved by changing the Make 1 Fits Header.vi and Add 1 image to Fits.vi's to use the cluster type def. I think the ND code is now cleaned up and working; so I am going to run the ND filter test one more time as a defnitive test: ___end___ Sat Aug 01 04:25:09 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Aug 01 04:26:40 GMT 2015 Well it may not be that definitive we are starting to loose the sun and the guider is getting a little bad.. But hopefully the headers will look good. ___end___ Sat Aug 01 04:26:50 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol