----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Jan 8 17:11:25 GMT 2016 Year: 16 Doy: 008 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Fri Jan 08 17:11:51 GMT 2016 Temp: 37.9f, Humidity: 16%, Pressure: 28.777in, Wind: 6mph from SW, Skies: mostly clear with some thin cirrus ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 08 17:24:07 GMT 2016 RA has a 400arcsecond oscillation ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 08 17:39:51 GMT 2016 Removed 5pounds from bottom of the spar and this seemed to clear up the oscillations. I think this puts the spar slightly out of balance; as it was pretty much perfectly balanced at the end of the day on Wednesday. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 08 17:42:58 GMT 2016 Sun just now clearing the dome wall enough to hit the top edge of the Kcor O1 ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 08 18:07:16 GMT 2016 Kcor O1 now fully out of shadow. ___end___ Fri Jan 08 19:07:13 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jan 08 19:40:02 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Jan 09 00:02:57 GMT 2016 SGS is now having an afternoon 200 arcsecond oscillation. I added 3 pounds to the back of the spar which seems to have dampened it. ___end___ Sat Jan 09 00:07:06 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Sat Jan 09 01:10:09 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Jan 09 01:16:52 GMT 2016 Did some clean up of rack cableing including finding another short rack to put the NOAA equipment/fibers into. ___end___