----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Oct 26 16:33:01 GMT 2017 Year: 17 Doy: 299 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Thu Oct 26 16:33:14 GMT 2017 Temp 42F with windspeed at about 4-9mph from the South. Thin cirrus covering the sky at present, will open up and track but will wait for the sky to clear before starting instruments. ___end___ GONG COMMENT BY waters: Thu Oct 26 16:38:57 GMT 2017 GONG has been unstowed. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Thu Oct 26 17:05:56 GMT 2017 PM Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Thu Oct 26 17:06:01 GMT 2017 PM Blew off CoMP O1 ___end___ Thu Oct 26 18:54:27 GMT 2017 SGS Alignment complete Thu Oct 26 18:55:28 GMT 2017 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Thu Oct 26 18:55:12 GMT 2017 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Thu Oct 26 18:55:46 GMT 2017 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Thu Oct 26 18:57:58 GMT 2017 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Thu Oct 26 18:59:29 GMT 2017 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00010.cbk GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Oct 26 19:04:19 GMT 2017 Still just a bit of cirrus crossing the sky at the moment, CoMP looks fine however, you can see it still in Kcor. Waiting a bit longer to start up Kcor but CoMP looks wonderful. Thank you Ben!!! ___end___ Thu Oct 26 19:09:43 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Oct 26 19:22:26 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Thu Oct 26 19:27:25 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Oct 26 19:32:57 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Oct 26 19:20:59 GMT 2017 Checking Kcor start real quick. The images at the start of the day was uniform. Currently trouble shooting with Ben. ___end___ Thu Oct 26 20:04:32 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Thu Oct 26 20:02:59 GMT 2017 Ben had me look at the images coming in at start up with the diffuser and polarizer out of the beam to see if socketcam came up in the right position. As I started up, I looked in the Y: drive on the shabar computer, under gallery\kcor and checked the lastest image. Luckily, it looks like socketcam started up correctly this time. Images look much better than at start up. Hopefully, when Ben comes back up tomorrow, he can flush out the cause. Thank you for your help! ___end___ Thu Oct 26 20:53:14 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Thu Oct 26 20:53:15 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini Thu Oct 26 21:08:36 GMT 2017 KCOR End Calibration Script Thu Oct 26 21:08:53 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Oct 26 21:08:55 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Oct 26 21:21:40 GMT 2017 The door leading into the dog house can be pushed open without moving the handle, regardless if it's locked or not. I tried to pull/push it closed and you could still push/pull it open without moving the handle. ___end___ Thu Oct 26 21:34:19 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Thu Oct 26 21:35:12 GMT 2017 SGS Alignment complete Thu Oct 26 21:35:06 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Oct 26 21:59:02 GMT 2017 We might have a faulty safety valve on our liquid nitrogen dispensesr. It went off when I filled our dewar. After about five to seven minutes, it stopped releasing nitrogen but we should keep an eye on it everytime we use it. ___end___ Thu Oct 26 22:18:46 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Thu Oct 26 22:18:14 GMT 2017 CoMP Paused for clouds GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Oct 26 22:17:00 GMT 2017 Clouds crossing over, instruments idled for now. ___end___ Thu Oct 26 22:47:18 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Oct 26 22:46:34 GMT 2017 CoMP Restarted from pause Thu Oct 26 22:50:45 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Thu Oct 26 22:50:54 GMT 2017 CoMP Paused for clouds Fri Oct 27 00:32:06 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Oct 27 00:31:22 GMT 2017 CoMP Restarted from pause GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Oct 27 00:30:23 GMT 2017 Sky looks a little bright but going to try taking data. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Oct 27 00:34:40 GMT 2017 There is a new project on the brick wall that looks at the glow of the atmosphere and we were kindly asked to cover the red light that our breaker outside has. Currently covered with tape. ___end___ Fri Oct 27 01:14:21 GMT 2017 COMP End Patrol Fri Oct 27 01:15:48 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Fri Oct 27 01:17:00 GMT 2017 SGS Alignment complete Fri Oct 27 01:16:51 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Oct 27 01:17:36 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Fri Oct 27 01:18:24 GMT 2017 SGS Alignment complete Fri Oct 27 01:18:12 GMT 2017 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Oct 27 01:17:56 GMT 2017 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Fri Oct 27 01:18:01 GMT 2017 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: waves-00001.cbk Fri Oct 27 01:26:33 GMT 2017 KCOR End Patrol Fri Oct 27 01:26:20 GMT 2017 CoMP Paused for clouds GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Oct 27 01:25:42 GMT 2017 Some clouds passing, instruments idled ___end___ Fri Oct 27 01:49:11 GMT 2017 CoMP Restarted from pause Fri Oct 27 01:49:15 GMT 2017 COMP End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Oct 27 01:57:28 GMT 2017 After the morning cirrus, it was a good day to take data, aerosols were ever present and some clouds in the afternoon impeded a bit but otherwise, a nice day up the mountain. ___end___