----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Jan 1 17:11:30 GMT 2016 Year: 16 Doy: 001 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Fri Jan 1 17:11:34 GMT 2016 Temp 41F with windspeed at about 6mph from the West. Cirrus covering the majority of the sky at present. Waiting for better weather before starting. ___end___ Fri Jan 01 22:33:44 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Jan 1 22:33:35 GMT 2016 Sky looks better from what I can see, so I started Kcor. The data looks okay but not great. Will see how this goes. ___end___ Fri Jan 01 22:45:02 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Fri Jan 01 22:45:03 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Fri Jan 01 22:45:17 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Fri Jan 01 22:45:18 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Fri Jan 01 22:46:43 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Jan 1 22:47:22 GMT 2016 Not entirely sure why the RA drifted before correcting its self. The spar didn't hit anything and the wires didn't feel tight anywhere. And there wasn't anything passing in the sky. Odd... ___end___ Fri Jan 01 23:24:36 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Fri Jan 01 23:24:37 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20150323.ini ****Possible CME in Progress waters******: Fri Jan 1 23:29:18 GMT 2016 At 23:02UT between PA 235-260, a cme can be seen launching. ___end___ You can check out the image data at: http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu Fri Jan 01 23:41:50 GMT 2016 KCOR End Calibration Script Fri Jan 01 23:42:07 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jan 01 23:42:08 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Jan 1 23:56:03 GMT 2016 I took a calibration during that CME and it looks like we start taking synoptic data right as it finishes snaping. ___end___ Sat Jan 02 00:28:27 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 00:28:29 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 00:28:42 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 00:28:43 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 00:30:35 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Sat Jan 2 00:29:41 GMT 2016 Lost the RA again and nothing was impeding the spar and nothing was passing in the sky. Could the gear be slipping. ___end___ Sat Jan 02 00:33:23 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 00:33:30 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 00:33:50 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 00:33:51 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 00:33:52 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 00:35:27 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Sat Jan 2 00:33:49 GMT 2016 The spar started oscillating in the RA direction and then the RA took a dive. Not sure what's going on. ___end___ Sat Jan 02 00:46:39 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 00:46:40 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 00:46:41 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 00:46:54 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 00:46:55 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 00:49:02 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Sat Jan 2 00:46:39 GMT 2016 Lost the RA again. Right before it hits an error of -2000 arcseconds, it corrects itself and stablizes. Each time it's happend I've had the live camera feed up to see if I could see anything when it starts and I can't really see anything that might be a trigger. ___end___ Sat Jan 02 00:53:11 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 00:53:14 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 00:53:15 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 00:53:29 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 00:53:30 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol **GENERAL PROBLEM COMMENT BY waters** : Sat Jan 2 00:56:14 GMT 2016 Lost RA again. ___end___ Sat Jan 02 00:57:26 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Sat Jan 02 01:02:35 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 01:02:36 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 01:04:20 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 01:04:22 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 01:05:10 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Sat Jan 02 01:06:04 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 01:06:07 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 01:06:08 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 01:06:22 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 01:06:23 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 01:06:38 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 01:06:39 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 01:06:53 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 01:06:54 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 01:07:08 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 01:07:09 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Sat Jan 02 01:07:23 GMT 2016 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Sat Jan 02 01:07:24 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol **GENERAL PROBLEM COMMENT BY waters** : Sat Jan 2 01:04:19 GMT 2016 Lost the RA again. Since it had taken a very short amount of time between the last two slips, I stayed up stairs and watched the housing that has the RA gears. The center part, that has the teeth slowly increased speed and then after some time decreased to the slow crawl that it normally is at. Also, when looking at the set up, on the top right when looking at the housing, the small smoothe disk that meets the lower larger disk has either some gunk on it or pits. And as of writing this, the we lost the RA again. ___end___ **GENERAL PROBLEM COMMENT BY waters** : Sat Jan 2 01:19:58 GMT 2016 RA lost again. ___end___ ****EVENT COMMENT BY waters**** : Sat Jan 2 01:21:45 GMT 2016 Sun is really active today. Between PA 35-50, PA 75-90 and PA 120-130 there are many changes going on with the prominences on the limbs. So amazing! ___end___ **GENERAL PROBLEM COMMENT BY waters** : Sat Jan 2 01:24:47 GMT 2016 Lost the RA. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Sat Jan 2 01:29:01 GMT 2016 It was an awesome day once we were able to take data but I don't think I can handle the RA error slip. Heading down early. ___end___