----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Apr 30 15:56:08 GMT 2020 Year: 20 Doy: 121 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Thu Apr 30 16:10:40 GMT 2020 Temp 46F with windspeed at about 7-12mph from the Southeast. Sky looks clear, if not a little bright. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Apr 30 16:19:56 GMT 2020 Logger currently isn't working. Ben helped figure out that some of the MLSO hosts cannot access kodiak over samba connections. Waiting to hear back; until then the 'Send data to mlsoserver' will be turned off until things are okay again. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Apr 30 16:24:34 GMT 2020 PM Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Thu Apr 30 16:25:04 GMT 2020 Windows opened upstairs ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Thu Apr 30 16:40:43 GMT 2020 Ben figured it out! Thank you ___end___ Thu Apr 30 16:59:03 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Thu Apr 30 17:01:22 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Apr 30 19:07:54 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Thu Apr 30 19:07:55 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini Thu Apr 30 19:23:09 GMT 2020 KCOR End Calibration Script Thu Apr 30 19:23:26 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Thu Apr 30 19:23:26 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol **GENERAL PROBLEM COMMENT BY waters** : Thu Apr 30 19:37:36 GMT 2020 Dec drifted again and couldn't come back. Hitting open loop and then close loop brought it back. ___end___ **GENERAL PROBLEM COMMENT BY waters** : Thu Apr 30 19:41:31 GMT 2020 Dec drifted again and wouldn't come back. Hitting open loop and then close loop brought it back. ___end___ **GENERAL PROBLEM COMMENT BY waters** : Thu Apr 30 20:07:47 GMT 2020 Dec drifted again and wouldn't come back. Hitting open loop and then close loop brought it back. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Thu Apr 30 20:43:48 GMT 2020 Dec drifted again but brought itself back again. ___end___ Thu Apr 30 20:47:12 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol **GENERAL PROBLEM COMMENT BY waters** : Thu Apr 30 20:47:29 GMT 2020 The dec is drifting constantly now and nothing I do is causing it to settle. Stopping data collection until I'm able to get it stable. ___end___ **GENERAL PROBLEM COMMENT BY waters** : Thu Apr 30 21:02:11 GMT 2020 Going upstairs to try and stabilize the spar physically didn't help.Switching from open loop and then back to closed loop didn't help. Putting it on standby and then closed loop lasted for about twenty seconds before the dec started to drift. But now the dec is just oscillating instead of drifting off and not coming back. ___end___ WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Thu Apr 30 21:02:43 GMT 2020 Temp: 62.1f, Humidity: 13%, Pressure: 28.665in, Wind: 12mph from 38degs, Skies: ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Thu Apr 30 21:07:39 GMT 2020 Looks like the spar has stabilized, starting things back up. ___end___ Thu Apr 30 21:08:38 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Thu Apr 30 21:34:34 GMT 2020 Seems a very strong gust came out from the Northeast. Moved the dome more South just in case we get more like that. ___end___ GPS COMMENT by MLSO: Thu Apr 30 21:45:06 GMT 2020 Successfully logged in to system Good disk mount GPS software running Last 5 GPS data files are: /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_116_2146.bin 2147483647 /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_117_2146.bin 2147483647 /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_118_2146.bin 2147483647 /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_119_2146.bin 2147483647 /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_120_2146.bin 2147483647 ___end___ GONG COMMENT BY waters: Thu Apr 30 21:54:15 GMT 2020 Went down to the shelter and opened the doors. ___end___ Thu Apr 30 22:11:15 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Thu Apr 30 22:11:30 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Thu Apr 30 22:12:02 GMT 2020 Sky is too bright, stopping kcor at present. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Thu Apr 30 23:19:20 GMT 2020 Manually rotated the dome. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Fri May 01 01:27:08 GMT 2020 Aerosols weren't too bad until about 10am HST and then around 1215HST, the sky got too bright to take data for the rest of the day. Hope tomorrow is better. ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: waters