----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Feb 11 18:10:26 GMT 2019 Year: 19 Doy: 042 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Mon Feb 11 18:16:48 GMT 2019 Temp: 29.0f, Humidity: 43%, Pressure: 28.57in, Wind: 16mph from 244degs, Skies: clear. 1/2 of ice on most windward surfaces at the observatory this morning. Trying to clear ice to make things safe for observing. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Feb 11 18:17:30 GMT 2019 NOAA davis station thatwe use to get our weather information iced up at some point last night. And gave junk wind speeds. Ice cleared so we have been getting good data since about 8am. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Feb 11 18:27:59 GMT 2019 PM Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Feb 11 18:29:20 GMT 2019 Windows not opened up stairs there is still a lot of ice up on the dome. It looks like the ice is located such that it cant fall into the dome but it could potentailly hit the winds when it eventaully falls out side the dome. ___end___ **KCOR PROBLEM COMMENT BY berkey** : Mon Feb 11 19:37:56 GMT 2019 PXI chassis was offer when I arrived this morning. When trying to start it, it seems like the powersupply tries to run while the power button is pushed down but dies as soon as the button is release. It also sounds like the powersuppply fans are not running at full strenght while the button is held down. Not sure how to reslove this. ___end___ **GONG PROBLEM COMMENT BY berkey** : Mon Feb 11 20:35:08 GMT 2019 Gong fully iced up yesterday. Sang contacted us to report an issue in the 70VDC power supply. This happed becasue the elevation and altitude bearings froze up. Clearing the ice off the turret allowed the system to be restarted with blowing the 70 breaker. We also got reports about the shelter getting too cold. Looks like the AC units were iced over as well. Ice was cleared from the AC's. Darryl Koon also reported the gong sensaphone still had his phone number as one of the sytems in the dialer. His number was remvoed and my replaced it in Dial out number 2. Gong appears to be up and running now. ___end___ Mon Feb 11 22:05:36 GMT 2019 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Mon Feb 11 22:07:59 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete Mon Feb 11 22:09:58 GMT 2019 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited **KCOR PROBLEM COMMENT BY berkey** : Mon Feb 11 22:14:26 GMT 2019 Reviewing tempatures from this morning; I notieced we were ~25F all night which is well below the PXIe operating range. So as a test I took a space heater up staris to heat the nema box back into the operating range. Once the area around the PXIE came up to about 50f (I assume it was colder inside the chassis) the system was able to come up as normal. We are now observing. :) ___end___ Mon Feb 11 22:29:38 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Feb 11 22:35:53 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Mon Feb 11 22:35:57 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini Mon Feb 11 22:52:12 GMT 2019 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon Feb 11 22:52:30 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Feb 11 22:52:32 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Feb 11 22:55:35 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Mon Feb 11 22:56:23 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete Mon Feb 11 22:56:43 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Feb 12 02:00:53 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol ONSITE STAFF: berkey