----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Oct 20 16:20:22 GMT 2017 Year: 17 Doy: 293 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Fri Oct 20 16:41:35 GMT 2017 Temp 40F with windspeed at about 17-23mph from the Southeast. There's a band of cirrus crossing over the sky in the West and a bit in the South but the sky looks clear. ___end___ Fri Oct 20 17:19:05 GMT 2017 SGS Alignment complete Fri Oct 20 17:20:40 GMT 2017 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Fri Oct 20 17:25:22 GMT 2017 Cirrus currently impeding data collection this morning, will start up when the sky is clear. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Fri Oct 20 17:25:28 GMT 2017 PM Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Fri Oct 20 17:25:31 GMT 2017 PM Blew off CoMP O1 ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY waters: Fri Oct 20 17:59:25 GMT 2017 Since we are not able to take data just yet, Ben is currently taking a look at the CoMP diffuser motor. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 20 19:40:09 GMT 2017 PM Washed Kcor O1 ___end___ Fri Oct 20 19:43:44 GMT 2017 SGS Alignment complete Fri Oct 20 19:43:50 GMT 2017 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Fri Oct 20 19:51:11 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Oct 20 20:32:39 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Fri Oct 20 20:32:20 GMT 2017 Pausing to take the diffuser off CoMP. ___end___ Fri Oct 20 20:38:26 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Oct 20 20:40:01 GMT 2017 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Fri Oct 20 20:45:46 GMT 2017 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Fri Oct 20 20:53:46 GMT 2017 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Fri Oct 20 20:56:44 GMT 2017 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Fri Oct 20 20:57:15 GMT 2017 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00011.cbk CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 20 20:59:29 GMT 2017 With the broken diffuser motor: The diffuser itself has been removed and the CoMP Observign code has been set to not make any calls to the Diffuser In/Out sub vis. The cookbooks/menu have been updated to avoid making the call to move opal. New cookbooks: synoptic-00011.cbk and waves-00002.cbk reflect these new calibration free changes. Hopefully we sort out the motor sooner then later so we can get back to taking calls. ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Oct 20 21:03:17 GMT 2017 Without the Diffuser in beam the Focus routine cannot function properly (spar motion dominates the brightness signal leading to bad/unproducable results). we should either avoid focusing in the short term. Or the foucs will have to be doing slightly manually. The normal lens focus routine can be run to get the graph of the sharpness vs focus position; then the observer must do a visual fit on the graph to find the best focus position. Then on exiting the focus rountine the lens can be drivingo the best focus position via the focus control on the cener occulter sub routine. ___end___ Fri Oct 20 23:39:26 GMT 2017 COMP End Patrol Fri Oct 20 23:40:19 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Fri Oct 20 23:41:19 GMT 2017 SGS Alignment complete Fri Oct 20 23:41:15 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Oct 20 23:41:18 GMT 2017 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Fri Oct 20 23:41:23 GMT 2017 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: waves-00002.cbk CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Oct 21 00:01:39 GMT 2017 As of start of observing today CoMP has been configured to copy fits files to the server as it takes them. ___end___ ****Possible CME in Progress berkey**** : Sat Oct 21 00:24:32 GMT 2017 Fast CME seen launching near PA:110 at time 23:00. First found with the Found wit the sem detection software at 23:00. Cme not obvious to observers until major images taken at 23:30 (actually seen at 24UT). ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Oct 21 00:28:58 GMT 2017 The Comment logger GUI can now submit/send out cme event alerts just like the commandline cmeev tool. ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Oct 21 00:31:20 GMT 2017 Diffuser and shaft spacer are currently stored on the new flow bench. ___end___ ****Possible CME in Progress waters**** : Sat Oct 21 00:56:52 GMT 2017 Possible CME seen launching between PA:95-105 at time 23:39UT. This slow moving cme might be part of the previous cme or it may be a new one triggered by that cme. Our kcor CME detection software crashed after spotting the first CME, so we aren't entirely sure. ___end___ Sat Oct 21 01:13:29 GMT 2017 COMP End Patrol Sat Oct 21 01:13:29 GMT 2017 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00011.cbk Sat Oct 21 02:44:32 GMT 2017 COMP End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Sat Oct 21 02:45:19 GMT 2017 Dome is starting to block CoMP. ___end___ Sat Oct 21 02:50:24 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Sat Oct 21 02:59:21 GMT 2017 A good day. Once the mornging cirrus past, the sky was clear with low aerosols. Hope tomorrow brings wonderful weather again. ___end___