----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Dec 4 17:05:08 GMT 2015 Year: 15 Doy: 338 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Fri Dec 04 17:05:59 GMT 2015 Temp: 44.2f, Humidity: 10%, Pressure: 28.795in, Wind: 10mph from SE, Skies: Patchy cirrus over the whole sky. Delaying startup until things improve. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Dec 04 19:15:03 GMT 2015 Skies have cleared a bit starting kcor, although images are not yet good enough for science. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Dec 04 20:38:52 GMT 2015 Realigned sgs and had to fight the RA shake. ___end___ Fri Dec 04 20:52:12 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Dec 04 21:28:18 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Fri Dec 04 22:48:56 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Dec 04 23:09:39 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Dec 04 23:09:39 GMT 2015 spar osicllating again ___end___ Sat Dec 05 00:45:58 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Sat Dec 05 00:52:49 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Dec 05 01:35:27 GMT 2015 After some poking around it looks like the spar osicalltions are related to an RA imbalance of to much mass on west side of the spar. I am not sure why this became an issue as we move in to winter. But it seems like it may have been fixed (at least this afternoon) by removing the 10lbs weights that we added to the SBS added to balance out the spar after removing CoMP. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Dec 05 01:41:59 GMT 2015 No visit from the contractor today. (Or as far as I know all week). I had expected them to be up to do some measurments for the dome swap. Its to bad we didnt have our paperwork together a little earlier. I think this would have been the perfect week to do the work. Forecast for next week seems to call for slightly higher winds but otherwise good weather. ___end___