----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Sep 14 16:51:03 GMT 2016 Year: 16 Doy: 258 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Wed Sep 14 16:51:07 GMT 2016 Temp: 43.2f, Humidity: 81%, Pressure: 28.649in, Wind: 9mph from 265degs, Skies: clear ___end___ Wed Sep 14 17:14:59 GMT 2016 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: HOP316.cbk Wed Sep 14 17:24:04 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Sep 14 18:03:54 GMT 2016 CoMP Paused for clouds Wed Sep 14 18:04:00 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Sep 14 18:04:55 GMT 2016 Clouds coming over the mountain from the SW. Pausing instruments ___end___ Wed Sep 14 18:19:04 GMT 2016 CoMP Restarted from pause Wed Sep 14 18:26:37 GMT 2016 CoMP Paused for clouds Wed Sep 14 18:30:03 GMT 2016 CoMP Restarted from pause Wed Sep 14 18:41:47 GMT 2016 CoMP Paused for clouds GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Sep 14 18:53:10 GMT 2016 Closing the dome for now ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Sep 15 00:08:11 GMT 2016 Hail, rain, fog, thunder blue skies all things happening at MLO right now. What fun. ___end___ Thu Sep 15 01:19:58 GMT 2016 CoMP Restarted from pause Thu Sep 15 01:19:58 GMT 2016 COMP End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Sep 15 02:55:41 GMT 2016 More power blips. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Sep 15 05:01:17 GMT 2016 Forgot to log the Major task for this afternoon. Kcor and Comp occulting disks were swapped for the Fall. Kcor now has the 1009.6 disk installed. Comp is now using #31. For CoMP I changed the text value and saved the default (so this should be robust with reboots). And the hwConfig.txt file in Kcor has been updated to reflect teh biggger disk. While swapping the disks I took apart the Kcor field lens mount to try and check for pinched Orings or any other so of miss-alignment. Near as I can tell it was Ok before the work and remains Ok. But it may be interesting to build some sort of aligmnet target for the field lens assembly to check it out on the bench. Perhaps this is as simple as a sheet of paper/plastic with aligment marks and annulus the side of of the occulter post that can be placed on the mount to give a better reference to check the alignment. For a better target we may require a 3d structure that rises to meet the top of the occulter post to better check centering. ___end___