----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Jun 18 15:55:50 GMT 2019 Year: 19 Doy: 169 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Tue Jun 18 16:17:50 GMT 2019 Temp 45F with windspeed negligible at present. Vog layer is at about 11,000ft + this morning. Otherwise, sky looks clear. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 18 16:26:14 GMT 2019 PM Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 18 16:26:38 GMT 2019 Windows opened upstairs ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 18 16:49:47 GMT 2019 Sky is way too birght to take any data at present ___end___ Tue Jun 18 17:36:34 GMT 2019 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Tue Jun 18 17:39:08 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Jun 18 17:59:40 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Tue Jun 18 18:00:44 GMT 2019 SGS Alignment complete Tue Jun 18 18:00:07 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Jun 18 19:23:37 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol Tue Jun 18 19:23:39 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini Tue Jun 18 19:38:58 GMT 2019 KCOR End Calibration Script Tue Jun 18 19:39:16 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Jun 18 19:39:17 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 18 20:08:14 GMT 2019 Allen is stoping and restarting K-Cor to do a five second intergration test, numsum set to 171. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 18 20:10:02 GMT 2019 This morning, the polariztion states came up correctly. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 18 20:10:51 GMT 2019 Polarization state came up correct after restarting for the intergration test. ___end___ Tue Jun 18 20:11:06 GMT 2019 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 18 20:29:05 GMT 2019 Sky is getting very bright ___end___ Tue Jun 18 20:36:07 GMT 2019 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 18 20:36:54 GMT 2019 Got too bright, KCor idled for a bit. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 18 21:38:19 GMT 2019 Resetting the numsum to 512 ___end___ Wed Jun 19 01:28:08 GMT 2019 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited WEATHER COMMENT: stueben: Wed Jun 19 01:29:19 GMT 2019 Sky is still too bright for observation. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY stueben: Wed Jun 19 01:46:50 GMT 2019 Fair seeing, but bright sky and some aerosols at startup. Sky brightness reduced enough to run kcor by 8am but became too bright again by 10:30 and remained bright the rest of the day. ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: stueben, waters