----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Dec 9 17:06:28 GMT 2019 Year: 19 Doy: 343 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Mon Dec 09 17:06:44 GMT 2019 Temp: 41.6f, Humidity: 33%, Pressure: 28.71in, Wind: 7mph from 188degs, Skies: clear ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Dec 09 17:06:44 GMT 2019 ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Dec 09 17:16:24 GMT 2019 Kcor cameralink and NI boards moved to Kcor2 to try to take data on the new computer today. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Dec 09 17:41:11 GMT 2019 PM Blew off Kcor O1 and opened windows ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Dec 09 17:41:39 GMT 2019 PM Blew off Kcor Field Lens due to bright spots seen in yesterdays data ___end___ Mon Dec 09 17:50:55 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Dec 09 17:57:27 GMT 2019 Kcor2's disk array did not power up with the computer. Perhaps I bumped something in thebox when I installed the cameralink boards. I noticed E drive was missing becasue socketcam was hard crashing. After a little debugging I found that the culpurit was trying to fprintf to the socketcam logs in e: driver which it couldn't. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Dec 09 18:01:18 GMT 2019 Rebooting cleared up the issue with seeing the drive array. hopeful it stays cleared up in future power cycles. I will think about a check/warning that can be added to the observing code to see if the array is alive before calling socketcam. ___end___ Mon Dec 09 18:07:36 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Dec 09 19:13:57 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Mon Dec 09 19:13:59 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Dec 09 19:24:25 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Mon Dec 09 19:24:26 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini Mon Dec 09 19:39:40 GMT 2019 KCOR End Calibration Script Mon Dec 09 19:39:57 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Dec 09 19:39:57 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Dec 09 20:49:58 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Dec 09 20:50:34 GMT 2019 Stopping observations to wash the kcor O1. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Dec 09 22:16:52 GMT 2019 PM Washed Kcor O1 ___end___ Mon Dec 09 22:19:07 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete Mon Dec 09 22:20:20 GMT 2019 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Mon Dec 09 22:21:51 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Mon Dec 09 22:29:54 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Mon Dec 09 22:29:56 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Dec 09 22:36:10 GMT 2019 O1 *might* be cleaner hard to tell with the heavy aerosol. ___end___ Mon Dec 09 23:00:42 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Mon Dec 09 23:02:45 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete Mon Dec 09 23:09:03 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Mon Dec 09 23:48:35 GMT 2019 Kcor data taken between about 18:02UT and 19:10UT had fore-optics positions incorectly reported as MID due to a stale record when the these mechanims were infact out of the beam. This went unoticed from the observer console becsaue the mc4u gui correctly reported the mechansims out of the beam, but since the fits header values are only updated just before and after moves things looked ok from the MC4u gui. The mc4u gui now has some logic to peroidcily compare the fits header value to the hardware state value and update the fits header if stale. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Dec 10 02:27:15 GMT 2019 Kcor2 looks like it does everything the old computer did. I would like to run with it going foward. (unless we find some kind of show stopper). ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Dec 10 03:19:39 GMT 2019 Nice to see the sun today but the data werent great with all the aerosols. Some dynamics near PA130 seen in Halpha. And if I trick myself I can almost see some activity between the aresols of kcor at that same location ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: berkey