----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Mar 8 15:57:12 GMT 2020 Year: 20 Doy: 068 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Sun Mar 08 16:47:23 GMT 2020 Temp: 39.9f with windspeed at about 9-15mph from the Southeast. Cirrus covering the sky at present, waiting for better conditions before opening. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Sun Mar 08 20:04:21 GMT 2020 PM Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Sun Mar 08 20:04:30 GMT 2020 Windows opened upstairs ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Sun Mar 08 20:10:38 GMT 2020 Thought we might have an opening in the cirrus but there is still some faintly covering the sky that is hard to see which is making things too bright. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Sun Mar 08 21:00:09 GMT 2020 The ILX lightwave temperature controller for K-Cor is acting strange. The temperature was dropping real fast, so I hit the output button off then on again. Then the TE current limit and TE open LEDs were red and the temperature started climbing past 35.0C. Powered the whole thing down and then back on to see if that would help. It didn't, temperature kept climbing. Turned the dial down which had the limit set to 40C back to 35.0C. Temperature started to drop again, even below 35. Hit the output button off then on again and it seems to be working now. Currently holding stable at 35C ___end___ Sun Mar 08 21:05:19 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Sun Mar 08 21:06:24 GMT 2020 Labview crashed when trying to start up K-Cor Synoptic Acquistion Mode. Restarting Labview seems to have fixed the problem. ___end___ Sun Mar 08 21:07:00 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GPS COMMENT by MLSO: Sun Mar 08 21:45:07 GMT 2020 Successfully logged in to system Good disk mount GPS software running Last 5 GPS data files are: dataoutiq_2020_063_2145.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2020_064_2145.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2020_065_2145.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2020_066_2145.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2020_067_2145.bin 2147483647 ___end___ Sun Mar 08 22:12:32 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Sun Mar 08 22:12:45 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Sun Mar 08 22:13:50 GMT 2020 Sky is starting to get a bit bright, Kcor stopped for a bit ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Sun Mar 08 22:49:51 GMT 2020 Cirrus moved in again, hoping it clears. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Mon Mar 09 01:56:33 GMT 2020 Unfortunately, no other data was taking except about an hours worth between 11 HST and 12 HST. Here's to hoping tomorrow is better. ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: waters