----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Jul 19 16:03:07 GMT 2016 Year: 16 Doy: 201 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Tue Jul 19 16:03:49 GMT 2016 Temp 39F with windspeed at about 7mph from the South. Vog is at about 12,000ft + and seems to be thick today. Otherwise the sky is clear above. ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jul 19 16:05:36 GMT 2016 We're out of liquid nitrogen for Comp. Our supply is out and NOAAs' says it's empty as well. Good thing the LN2 delivery is tomorrow. I turned off the camera to help stop it frrom warming as fast. ___end___ Tue Jul 19 16:51:54 GMT 2016 SGS Alignment complete CoMP COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jul 19 16:52:29 GMT 2016 Turned back camera on, going to take data. ___end___ Tue Jul 19 17:02:08 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol CoMP COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jul 19 17:05:54 GMT 2016 When going to center the occulter, the dark image has a lot of static, not very dark at all. Will start up once we get a good dark. ___end___ Tue Jul 19 17:10:23 GMT 2016 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00007.cbk Tue Jul 19 18:09:40 GMT 2016 SGS Alignment complete GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jul 19 18:16:13 GMT 2016 Joans up and we've done a mini meeting and now a tour. She brought up some really cool stuff too!! ___end___ Tue Jul 19 18:38:51 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Tue Jul 19 18:39:10 GMT 2016 CoMP Paused for clouds GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jul 19 18:39:16 GMT 2016 Some passing cirrus, kcor and paused for a bit. ___end___ Tue Jul 19 18:39:48 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Jul 19 18:40:02 GMT 2016 CoMP Restarted from pause Tue Jul 19 18:47:59 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Tue Jul 19 18:48:48 GMT 2016 CoMP Paused for clouds Tue Jul 19 18:55:22 GMT 2016 CoMP Restarted from pause Tue Jul 19 18:55:22 GMT 2016 COMP End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jul 19 19:05:19 GMT 2016 Stopped taking data for the day as we're going to start taking care of Kcor. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jul 19 23:54:02 GMT 2016 We were able to take down the Kcor tube with a pulley system and team work. We have packed the pieces that will be taken and sprayed at Bens house in his vehicle. There was one part of Kcor that couldn't be removed and thus was sprayed on site for about two minutes. Before hand we removed the occulter assemble, the hepa system and the O1 mount. The O1 is in the cleaning station. The Inner tubes, the baffles, the occulter station and aperture stop down to Waimea for cleaning and painting. We have the spar secured in the West-East position and will not be moving the set up until the Kcor tube is ready to be put back on. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Wed Jul 20 00:00:26 GMT 2016 The wrench, four bolts and two spacers are currently on the spar and it shoudln't be moved till they are taken down. ___end___