----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Jul 31 16:07:43 GMT 2017 Year: 17 Doy: 212 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Mon Jul 31 16:07:51 GMT 2017 Temp 45F with windspeed at about 9-14mph from the East-Southeast. The sky looks wonderfully clear this morning! ___end___ Mon Jul 31 16:35:34 GMT 2017 SGS Alignment complete CoMP COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 16:35:19 GMT 2017 CoMP center occulter had 0 for the focus, horizontal and veritcal translation. Comp occulter only needed a little bit of centering but when I tried to move it the whole GUI stopped responding. Restarting the computer to hopefully get things working again. ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 16:44:47 GMT 2017 Comp computer wouldn't shut down; power cycled it. ___end___ Mon Jul 31 16:54:00 GMT 2017 CoMP occulter has been re-centered CoMP COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 16:51:23 GMT 2017 Once rebooting the computer and got the CoMP GUI back up, the only value that wasn't right for the center occulter was the horizontal. Luckily I remembered the vaule from Friday and was able to get it back pretty fast. Everything seems to be working now. ___end___ Mon Jul 31 16:56:50 GMT 2017 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00010.cbk Mon Jul 31 16:56:59 GMT 2017 SGS Alignment complete Mon Jul 31 17:04:59 GMT 2017 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 17:05:28 GMT 2017 socketcam is very unhappy with me. When I initally started the KCor synoptic gui, socketcamonly put out three lines and then froze. It didn't finish looking at the bins or give a camera lag readout. Then I stopped running the synoptic gui. The program stopped immediately but nothing showed up in socketcam. After about 45 seconds, socketcam registered the rest of the bins and the camera lag. Nothing about stopping the program. Quit socketcam and started the synoptic gui again. Socketcam popped up and immediately showed the gentlestop. It seems to me that the gui and socketcam were completely out of sink. Restarting computer to hopefully fix the issue. ___end___ Mon Jul 31 17:19:27 GMT 2017 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Mon Jul 31 17:22:44 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 17:19:09 GMT 2017 Looks like most (hopefully all) of the bugs are out of the computers this morning and things are looking better. :) ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 17:21:16 GMT 2017 KCor O1 blowen off before start up. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 17:47:18 GMT 2017 SPiiPlucCOM660 error. Hit stop and then used the User-Mode Driver on the desktop. Seems to have gotten everything back up and running. ___end___ Mon Jul 31 18:59:12 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Mon Jul 31 18:59:13 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20150323.ini Mon Jul 31 19:03:49 GMT 2017 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Mon Jul 31 19:04:03 GMT 2017 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Mon Jul 31 19:04:22 GMT 2017 KCOR ABORT Calibration Script Mon Jul 31 19:04:40 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Jul 31 19:04:41 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Jul 31 19:04:41 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Jul 31 19:04:42 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 19:00:41 GMT 2017 Dec slipped during calibration; aborted and restarting. ___end___ Mon Jul 31 19:06:33 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Mon Jul 31 19:06:36 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20150323.ini GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 19:09:45 GMT 2017 From 19:04:40 to 19:06:33 should not have been marked as science as the lens cover was in. ___end___ Mon Jul 31 19:21:53 GMT 2017 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon Jul 31 19:22:02 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Jul 31 19:38:30 GMT 2017 COMP End Patrol Mon Jul 31 19:38:31 GMT 2017 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: waves-00001.cbk Mon Jul 31 21:11:09 GMT 2017 COMP End Patrol Mon Jul 31 21:12:43 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Mon Jul 31 21:13:59 GMT 2017 SGS Alignment complete Mon Jul 31 21:15:10 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Jul 31 21:14:40 GMT 2017 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Mon Jul 31 21:14:42 GMT 2017 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00010.cbk Mon Jul 31 21:17:03 GMT 2017 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Mon Jul 31 21:17:05 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Mon Jul 31 21:17:17 GMT 2017 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Mon Jul 31 21:17:19 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Mon Jul 31 21:16:36 GMT 2017 CoMP Paused for clouds GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 21:12:09 GMT 2017 Spar started oscillating due to some gusts from the East. Put the lower shutter up to help keep the influence of the wind on the spar but no dice. Wind is at 12-17mph with gusts between 20-25mph from the East. Every time the wind suddenly picks up, the spar oscillates, Kcor closes it's shutter and CoMP looks shakey. Idling instruments for a bit. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 21:20:47 GMT 2017 Just in time for some cirrus to come into view. ___end___ Mon Jul 31 22:00:33 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Jul 31 21:59:40 GMT 2017 CoMP Restarted from pause GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 21:56:59 GMT 2017 Found a position for the dome so the spar wouldn't shake as much! ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 21:59:11 GMT 2017 While the cirrus passed, I rotated the dome West and conducted a test for Alfred regarding which direction the polarizor rotated (cw or ccw when looking up at the Sun) rotating it from 0-90 degrees. When looking at the polarizor towards the Sun, it rotates counter clockwise. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 22:22:57 GMT 2017 The normal image at 22:00:01 UT is from when the lens cover on K-Cor was coming out of beam, I believe. ___end___ Mon Jul 31 22:31:06 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Mon Jul 31 22:32:50 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 22:28:42 GMT 2017 Dome occulted Kcor. ___end___ Mon Jul 31 23:24:36 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Mon Jul 31 23:24:20 GMT 2017 COMP End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Mon Jul 31 23:28:10 GMT 2017 Interesting morning with the instruments but otherwise a wonderful day to take data! ___end___