----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Jun 23 15:26:23 GMT 2020 Year: 20 Doy: 175 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Tue Jun 23 16:18:02 GMT 2020 Temp: 48.8f with windspeed at about 7-13mph from the South-Southeast. Bands of cirrus covering the sky at present, waiting for better conditions before opening. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 23 16:25:36 GMT 2020 K-Cor focus.vi was still running when I came in this morning. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Tue Jun 23 20:46:50 GMT 2020 Just completed some tests with new kcor Bitflow config files. The new files look promising to clean up the bad repleated columns on the right hand side. But with sky conditions improving the system has been reverted to its previous status for data collection. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 23 20:51:18 GMT 2020 SGS wouldn't guide when starting up; stopping and restarting the GUI fixed it. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 23 20:51:21 GMT 2020 PM Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 23 20:51:27 GMT 2020 Windows opened upstairs ___end___ Tue Jun 23 20:51:49 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Tue Jun 23 20:53:56 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Tue Jun 23 21:15:32 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 23 21:15:55 GMT 2020 Cirrus crossing, KCor stopped for now. ___end___ GPS COMMENT by MLSO: Tue Jun 23 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_170_2145.bin 2147483647 /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_171_2145.bin 2147483647 /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_172_2145.bin 2147483647 /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_173_2145.bin 2147483647 /mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_174_2145.bin 2147483647 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Tue Jun 23 22:52:15 GMT 2020 Some low clouds coming up from Saddle, closed the dome just in case. ___end___ Wed Jun 24 00:17:14 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Wed Jun 24 00:19:16 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jun 24 00:25:46 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Jun 24 00:26:36 GMT 2020 Clouds have come in, Kcor stopped. ___end___ Wed Jun 24 00:28:38 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Wed Jun 24 00:31:09 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jun 24 00:31:51 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jun 24 00:31:53 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jun 24 00:34:57 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jun 24 00:56:24 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jun 24 00:56:25 GMT 2020 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Jun 24 00:56:41 GMT 2020 Cirrus coming back in, Kcor stopped. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY waters: Wed Jun 24 01:29:02 GMT 2020 Gotta a little bit of data today, aerosols were a bit heavy. Hopefully the sky will be better tomorrow. ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: waters