----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Jun 9 15:43:28 GMT 2020 Year: 20 Doy: 161 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Tue Jun 09 16:16:34 GMT 2020 Temp: 47.9f with windspeed at about 3-8mph from the Northwest. Scattered cirrus covering the Suns' path at present, waiting for it to pass before opening. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 09 16:39:47 GMT 2020 PM Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 09 16:39:54 GMT 2020 Windows opened upstairs ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 09 16:42:34 GMT 2020 Couldn't get SGS to guide again. RA kept dropping and the DEC would remain where ever it was placed. Stopping and running SGS again got it to start tracking. ___end___ Tue Jun 09 16:52:53 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Tue Jun 09 16:55:10 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 09 17:45:35 GMT 2020 Sky getting a bit bright ___end___ Tue Jun 09 17:46:20 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Tue Jun 09 17:46:25 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Tue Jun 09 17:46:56 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Jun 09 17:47:43 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Tue Jun 09 17:47:56 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 09 17:48:36 GMT 2020 Too bright, Kcor stopped for now ___end___ Tue Jun 09 17:55:29 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Tue Jun 09 17:57:33 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Jun 09 18:07:46 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Tue Jun 09 18:07:56 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 09 18:08:31 GMT 2020 Too bright again, Kcor stopped ___end___ Tue Jun 09 18:13:58 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Tue Jun 09 18:15:53 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Jun 09 19:19:50 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Tue Jun 09 19:20:02 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 09 19:20:15 GMT 2020 Sky too bright, Kcor stopped ___end___ Tue Jun 09 19:26:06 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Tue Jun 09 19:28:23 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Jun 09 19:33:08 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 09 19:33:22 GMT 2020 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 09 19:33:36 GMT 2020 Sky too bright, Kcor stopped ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 09 19:53:58 GMT 2020 Cirrus has moved in, waiting for better conditions before starting up again. ___end___ Tue Jun 09 21:07:51 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Tue Jun 09 21:09:54 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GPS COMMENT by MLSO: Tue Jun 09 21:45:08 GMT 2020 Successfully logged in to system Good disk mount GPS software running Last 5 GPS data files are: /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_156_2145.bin 2147483647 /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_157_2145.bin 2147483647 /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_158_2145.bin 2147483647 /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_159_2145.bin 2147483647 /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_160_2145.bin 2147483647 ___end___ Tue Jun 09 23:47:21 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 09 23:48:01 GMT 2020 Clouds passed, Kcor paused briefly. ___end___ Tue Jun 09 23:48:35 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 09 23:49:49 GMT 2020 Going to try and address the two bullet holes in the Southwest of the images that pop up around 23:22:03UT ___end___ Tue Jun 09 23:53:55 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Tue Jun 09 23:54:11 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 09 23:59:52 GMT 2020 Sky too bright and some clouds passing. Kcor stopped for now. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Jun 10 00:01:12 GMT 2020 When I went to blow off the O1, I could see something being blown around in there. I won't know if what I did helped or just moved things to another spot until I'm able to take data again. ___end___ Wed Jun 10 00:14:59 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Wed Jun 10 00:20:59 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Jun 10 00:25:40 GMT 2020 Looks like the bullet holes are taken care of. ___end___ Wed Jun 10 00:39:31 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jun 10 00:39:40 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jun 10 00:39:42 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jun 10 00:44:49 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jun 10 00:44:59 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jun 10 00:45:00 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jun 10 00:45:03 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jun 10 00:46:16 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jun 10 00:50:23 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jun 10 00:50:33 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jun 10 00:50:49 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Jun 10 00:51:44 GMT 2020 Seeing a sudden brightening then it diminishing in the next data image often. ___end___ Wed Jun 10 01:02:29 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jun 10 01:02:41 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jun 10 01:02:58 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jun 10 01:09:19 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Jun 10 01:09:35 GMT 2020 Sky way too bright, stopping Kcor. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Jun 10 01:13:16 GMT 2020 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Jun 10 01:13:17 GMT 2020 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Jun 10 01:13:18 GMT 2020 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Jun 10 01:27:50 GMT 2020 Sorry, those empty comments were from me cleaning the keyboard. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Jun 10 01:29:25 GMT 2020 Aerosols were high from start up and intermittent clouds/cirrus were also a common theme for the day. But in between all that, we got some data, not very clean data but I'd say it was better than yesterday. ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: waters