----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Feb 12 17:13:10 GMT 2020 Year: 20 Doy: 043 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Wed Feb 12 17:15:22 GMT 2020 Temp: 30.9f, Humidity: 66%, Pressure: 28.623in, Wind: 1mph from 116degs, Skies: overcast to the east. Some ice/snow on th road for the last 2 miles. T-storms in Hilo. ___end___ GPS COMMENT by MLSO: Wed Feb 12 21:45:07 GMT 2020 Successfully logged in to system Good disk mount GPS software running Last 5 GPS data files are: dataoutiq_2020_038_2226.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2020_039_2226.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2020_040_2226.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2020_041_2145.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2020_042_2145.bin 2147483647 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Feb 13 22:35:15 GMT 2020 PM Blew off Kcor O1 and opened windows up stairs. ___end___ Wed Feb 12 22:40:35 GMT 2020 SGS Alignment complete Wed Feb 12 22:41:28 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Feb 12 22:54:06 GMT 2020 Had the dome rotator set to run the wrong way so we drove the dome into the beam intead of away when the edge was detected. ___end___ Wed Feb 12 23:51:07 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Feb 13 00:13:16 GMT 2020 Interesting loop near PA 300 ___end___ Thu Feb 13 00:25:55 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Thu Feb 13 00:26:00 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Feb 13 00:38:33 GMT 2020 Added som aeronet data to the wahoo (TV monitor) weather. charts display. The aeronet sensors while live on cement pad on the west side of the board walk. Measure aerosols which I think could corelate to kcor profomance. The nasa aeronet processing pipeline takes ~30 minutes to update the graphs so these are not helpful in realtime decision making but there does seem to be a corelation between the AOD values and aerosols in Kcor. So I would like to try and get a better feel for what kind of aeosols optical depth we need to make kcor happy, and which wavelenghts are the most important for this. The graph on the left L1 shows all the aersol data for the day. The L1.5 graph passes his data thru a cloud fiter and only plots data plots "clear" skies. Today for example we had heavy overcast in the morning with AOD values of about 2.5 and coronal skies in the afternoon of ~.02-1. With the L1 scaling the afternoon measurments just look like noise around 0. But wih the L1.5 gateing of clouds he graph fails to show a window of clouds that came aound 23UT. ___end___ Thu Feb 13 00:38:39 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Feb 13 00:39:04 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Thu Feb 13 00:39:05 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Feb 13 00:52:38 GMT 2020 Clouds passed thru the calibations ~00:50 UT ___end___ Thu Feb 13 00:54:19 GMT 2020 KCOR End Calibration Script Thu Feb 13 00:54:36 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Feb 13 00:54:36 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Feb 13 01:01:29 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Feb 13 01:03:18 GMT 2020 The clouds that block disruppted the cals, was actualy a snow flury blowing down the hill. Got the dome just before the snow got here. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Feb 13 01:27:04 GMT 2020 Swapped out the French Trimble COSMIC gps unit per request from Jan. ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: berkey