----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Jan 17 17:21:34 GMT 2020 Year: 20 Doy: 017 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Fri Jan 17 17:22:08 GMT 2020 Temp: 39.9f, Humidity: 82%, Pressure: 28.61in, Wind: 10mph from 242degs, Skies: broken overcast ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 17 18:45:38 GMT 2020 Skies seem ok adjecent enough to open the dome. Hopefully we get some windows of clear skies ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 17 18:45:47 GMT 2020 PM Blew off Kcor O1 and opened windows up stairs. ___end___ Fri Jan 17 20:00:22 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 17 20:12:00 GMT 2020 Trying to take some data between clouds. windows are small so we might now get much ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 17 20:19:00 GMT 2020 For this morning o1 focus and alignments were not done. Instead effort was made to get a good alignment and focus for this time of day based on the last couple of observing day. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 17 20:23:59 GMT 2020 At least until conditions significantly change I plan to run socketcam and just move the ND in and out of the beam as clouds come thru to hopefully get 1 or 2 good images since it has been so long since we got any data. Unfroutnatly right now it is looking like there is some thin cirus runining the data, between the thicker cirus clumps that are bothering the guider. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 17 20:25:33 GMT 2020 Now looking like we have a wet cloud coming up closing dome. ___end___ GPS by MLSO: Fri Jan 17 21:45:06 GMT 2020 Successfully logged in to system Good disk mount GPS software running Last 5 GPS data files are: dataoutiq_2019_347_2234.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2019_348_2234.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2019_349_2234.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2019_350_2234.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2019_351_2234.bin 2147483647 ___end___ Fri Jan 17 22:18:34 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Fri Jan 17 22:19:21 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jan 17 22:24:01 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Fri Jan 17 22:24:06 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Fri Jan 17 22:26:57 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jan 17 22:27:21 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Fri Jan 17 22:27:23 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 17 22:27:27 GMT 2020 Passing in and out of clouds. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 17 22:51:17 GMT 2020 Dome closed. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Jan 17 23:52:20 GMT 2020 Heavy fog. ___end___ GPS COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Jan 18 00:01:57 GMT 2020 Swapped disks on the GPS. ___end___ GPS by MLSO: Sat Jan 18 00:02:50 GMT 2020 Successfully logged in to system Unable to mount disk GPS software failure to start ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Jan 18 00:08:30 GMT 2020 Cannot mount the new disk reverting to the old disk. ___end___ GPS by MLSO: Sat Jan 18 00:09:05 GMT 2020 Successfully logged in to system Unable to mount disk GPS software failure to start ___end___ GPS by MLSO: Sat Jan 18 00:09:49 GMT 2020 Successfully logged in to system Good disk mount GPS software running Last 5 GPS data files are: dataoutiq_2020_015_0032.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2020_015_1942.bin 24992176 dataoutiq_2020_015_1956.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2020_016_1956.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2020_017_1956.bin 546154104 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Sat Jan 18 01:52:55 GMT 2020 Nice to get some data today. if we had a faster shutter/cover we would have probally got twice as much. Oh well the forecast for next weke looks much better. ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: berkey