----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Nov 23 16:54:23 GMT 2015 Year: 15 Doy: 327 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Mon Nov 23 16:54:41 GMT 2015 Temp: 42.6f, Humidity: 68%, Pressure: 28.584in, Wind: 8mph from SW, Skies: patchy cirrus overcast ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Nov 23 18:10:53 GMT 2015 RA guider osicllations are rather bad this morning. ~300arceconds making kcor alignment extra hard. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Nov 23 18:17:24 GMT 2015 Looks like it is partically a balance issue. I initally added some weight (our long crowbar) to the back of the spar which seemed to make things worse. Then moving the weight to the front of the spar the osicllation was cleared up. I will look at mounting a couple pounds of lead to the front of the spar at some point this afternoon hopefully this will squash this bug for good. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Nov 23 18:23:59 GMT 2015 Dome painting crew is on site and starting the sanding for paint prep. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Nov 23 18:28:19 GMT 2015 Skies are clear enough to get science :) ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Nov 23 19:23:51 GMT 2015 Looks like there is a large peice of forigen material on the O1 or field lens. Blob is showing up a bullet holes on the north side of the image. (This means we should expect the junk on the south side of the lenses). ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Nov 23 19:27:18 GMT 2015 Looks like we aren't seeing the Kcor start/stop science/calibration commentss in the log. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Nov 23 19:28:10 GMT 2015 Currently taking calibration data. Just took second polarization postiion now on to position 45 ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Nov 23 19:36:44 GMT 2015 log test ___end___ Mon Nov 23 19:43:46 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Mon Nov 23 19:43:48 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Nov 23 19:46:35 GMT 2015 Fixed the start/stop science mode logging for kcor. Looks like we are still using ssh to do log rights from kcor and I tempoarlly broke the mlso ssh key. It has been restored and logs are writing again. ___end___ Mon Nov 23 20:39:42 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Nov 23 20:56:10 GMT 2015 When up stairs to clean find the source of the data artifact and found multiple peices of dust lint on the o1. These were blowing off. But we should thinking about washing the O1 relatively soon. ___end___ Mon Nov 23 21:05:44 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Nov 23 21:09:26 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Mon Nov 23 21:10:13 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Nov 23 21:10:18 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Nov 23 21:54:43 GMT 2015 Dome is now closed. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Nov 24 00:15:27 GMT 2015 Painters left for today. They got a couple coats of the primer like paint. They hope to come up tomorrow and finishing with the final product. ___end___ Log Type BY visitor: Tue Nov 24 00:23:33 GMT 2015 more tests ___end___ Tue Nov 24 01:35:50 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Nov 24 01:36:29 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Nov 24 01:47:13 GMT 2015 Conditions have been very marignal this afternoon. It kept looklikg like things would clear but by time kcor was turned back on the sky completely changes. Fog and cirrus everywhere replace crisp blue skies covering 1/4 of the sky. done for now ___end___