----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Oct 3 16:30:14 GMT 2018 Year: 18 Doy: 276 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Wed Oct 03 16:42:39 GMT 2018 Temp 44f with windspeed at about 5-10mph from the South-Southeast. Sky is covered with a thin amount of cirrus at present. Will wait before starting up. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Oct 03 16:53:23 GMT 2018 PM Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Oct 03 16:53:36 GMT 2018 Windows opened upstairs ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Oct 03 18:47:12 GMT 2018 PM Washed Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Oct 03 18:49:07 GMT 2018 Did some cleaning of the inside of the front optics box while Ben was cleaning the KCor O1. Used our air blower and the vacuum to get dust out of the areas near and around the O1, as well as in the South most corner of the box. Hopefully it'll help. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Oct 03 23:17:57 GMT 2018 PM Washed Kcor Field Lens ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Oct 04 01:11:32 GMT 2018 Kcor O1 washing went ok I think the glass is cleaner now then when I started. The field lens cleaning did not go as well. Most of my interventions just seemd to move the problem to another point on the lens. So I ended up with a lot of handleing and dabbign of the optic othen in repeated locations as I apparently chased the problem around the glass. Cleaning stopped when apparent progress was no longer being made; which I think is as clean or cleaner than the point when we pulled it out of the telescope. At this point we have more or less swapped out every product to used to do optic cleaning without seieng an imporvement in results. I was hoping as we went to more pure chemicals and tried new paper/cotten/etc, we would see some benifit. At this point I think we need a new techinque or maybe a new artist I dont think I can do better. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Oct 04 01:40:13 GMT 2018 Looks like cirrus wont break today. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Oct 04 01:40:22 GMT 2018 ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: berkey, waters