----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Jan 18 17:00:19 GMT 2018 Year: 18 Doy: 018 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Thu Jan 18 17:00:28 GMT 2018 Temp 39F with windspeed at about 19-24mph from the Southeast. The wind speed may actually be higher as our building is blocking some of the wind from the anemometer. Sky is clear but will wait until the wind has calmed down a bit before opening the dome. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Jan 18 17:33:27 GMT 2018 Shabar out on the lave to the East of the building, taking data. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Jan 18 18:57:33 GMT 2018 Shabar was getting bad reads because of a switch that I should have flipped on wasn't. Shabar is working properly now and we should be good to go for the rest of the day. Thank you Ben ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Jan 18 19:21:36 GMT 2018 Wind is staying below 20mph with an occasional gust to about 21-23. Opening the dome and going to start taking data. ___end___ Thu Jan 18 19:23:59 GMT 2018 SGS Alignment complete Thu Jan 18 19:24:08 GMT 2018 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Thu Jan 18 19:25:57 GMT 2018 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Thu Jan 18 19:27:25 GMT 2018 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00012.cbk GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Thu Jan 18 19:27:30 GMT 2018 PM Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Thu Jan 18 19:27:33 GMT 2018 PM Blew off CoMP O1 ___end___ Thu Jan 18 19:28:42 GMT 2018 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Jan 18 19:55:35 GMT 2018 KCOR End Patrol Thu Jan 18 19:55:36 GMT 2018 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini Thu Jan 18 19:59:16 GMT 2018 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Thu Jan 18 19:59:41 GMT 2018 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Thu Jan 18 20:00:19 GMT 2018 KCOR ABORT Calibration Script Thu Jan 18 20:00:36 GMT 2018 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Jan 18 20:00:37 GMT 2018 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Jan 18 20:00:38 GMT 2018 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Jan 18 20:00:38 GMT 2018 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Jan 18 19:59:47 GMT 2018 Dec took a big dive for some reason. Wind has not been that strong and nothing is near the spar. Calibratioin aborted and will restart when Kcor is back up. ___end___ Thu Jan 18 20:01:52 GMT 2018 KCOR End Patrol Thu Jan 18 20:02:52 GMT 2018 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini Thu Jan 18 20:18:12 GMT 2018 KCOR End Calibration Script Thu Jan 18 20:19:42 GMT 2018 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Jan 18 20:47:52 GMT 2018 Alignment was off on Shabar. Readjusted. ___end___ Thu Jan 18 21:02:08 GMT 2018 COMP End Patrol Thu Jan 18 21:03:12 GMT 2018 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Thu Jan 18 21:03:14 GMT 2018 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00012.cbk GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Jan 18 21:04:37 GMT 2018 Cords were catching on the mount for Shabar, which was restricting it to move. Freed the cables and hopefully will run smooth for the rest of the day. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Jan 18 21:09:36 GMT 2018 Raised the bottom part of the shutter to help with blocking some of the wind. ___end___ Thu Jan 18 21:32:05 GMT 2018 Kcor sees an SGS Guiding Error closing lens cover Thu Jan 18 21:32:06 GMT 2018 KCOR End Patrol Thu Jan 18 21:34:39 GMT 2018 CoMP Paused for clouds GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Jan 18 21:34:42 GMT 2018 Dec took another sharp dive and now the spar is oscillating. Idling instruments until spar regains it's equilibrium. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Jan 18 21:40:55 GMT 2018 Can't seem to get the spar to not oscillate and the wind isn't helping. Moved the dome more South-Southwest and that seems to help but the instruments aren't in the slot yet. Instruments idled until then. ___end___ Thu Jan 18 22:21:25 GMT 2018 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Jan 18 22:21:29 GMT 2018 CoMP Restarted from pause GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Jan 18 22:21:42 GMT 2018 Did a meridian flip for Shabar at about 12:04 HST. ___end___ Thu Jan 18 23:24:42 GMT 2018 KCOR End Patrol Thu Jan 18 23:24:45 GMT 2018 COMP End Patrol Thu Jan 18 23:27:22 GMT 2018 SGS Alignment complete Thu Jan 18 23:27:40 GMT 2018 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Thu Jan 18 23:27:44 GMT 2018 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: waves-00003.cbk Fri Jan 19 00:22:04 GMT 2018 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Fri Jan 19 00:22:10 GMT 2018 Kcor should have had the Science Data button hit at 23:27:22 UT. Miss clicked it. ___end___ Fri Jan 19 01:00:12 GMT 2018 KCOR End Patrol Fri Jan 19 01:00:41 GMT 2018 SGS Alignment complete Fri Jan 19 01:00:34 GMT 2018 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jan 19 01:00:38 GMT 2018 COMP End Patrol Fri Jan 19 01:01:49 GMT 2018 CoMP occulter has been re-centered Fri Jan 19 01:01:51 GMT 2018 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00012.cbk GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Jan 19 02:02:59 GMT 2018 CoMP just got a bad read from the Rockwell temp but luckily, since Ben changed the code to do two reads before shutting, it didn't shut down since the temp was at -180C. ___end___ Fri Jan 19 02:37:08 GMT 2018 COMP End Patrol Fri Jan 19 02:37:08 GMT 2018 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00012.cbk GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Jan 19 02:46:08 GMT 2018 Shabar has been put away for the day. Just in time too, the building shadow was just about to cross over it. ___end___ Fri Jan 19 02:51:28 GMT 2018 KCOR End Patrol Fri Jan 19 02:51:52 GMT 2018 COMP End Patrol ONSITE STAFF: waters