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          Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log 
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       Sun Sep 20 16:57:46 GMT 2020
Year: 20  Doy: 264
Observer: mlso
WEATHER COMMENT: mcotter: Sun Sep 20 16:59:57 GMT 2020
Temp: 48.6f, Humidity: 6%, Pressure: 28.661in, Wind: 5mph from 122degs, Skies: Very hazy skies. High altitude Cirrus prevalent throughout sky. Thick inversion layer clearly observed higher than Maunakea.
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GONG COMMENT BY mcotter: Sun Sep 20 17:00:21 GMT 2020
GONG shack door open.
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GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Sun Sep 20 17:08:30 GMT 2020
Opened windows upstairs
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GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Sun Sep 20 17:09:07 GMT 2020
Opened dome shutter doors.
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GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Sun Sep 20 17:10:54 GMT 2020
PM Blew off Kcor O1. Dust artifact present at 10 o'clock position and at 11 o'clock position, approx 2" and 2.5 " from edge respectively that would not blow off with compressed air.
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GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Sun Sep 20 17:12:31 GMT 2020
Successfully aligned spar to sun. The sky is very bright so I am unsure whether observing is possible.
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GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Sun Sep 20 17:23:28 GMT 2020
Shabar running.
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Sun Sep 20 17:27:12 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited
GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Sun Sep 20 17:29:54 GMT 2020
It took several tries at the focus routine to get a relatively decent parabola.Running K-cor, but the sky is bright.
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Sun Sep 20 17:54:50 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited
GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Sun Sep 20 17:56:28 GMT 2020
Readjusted occulter and re-ran focus routine and got a very well shaped parabola. Restarted K-cor.
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Sun Sep 20 19:01:18 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini
Sun Sep 20 19:16:33 GMT 2020 KCOR End Calibration Script
Sun Sep 20 20:01:06 GMT 2020 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited
Sun Sep 20 20:47:01 GMT 2020 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini
Sun Sep 20 21:02:15 GMT 2020 KCOR End Calibration Script
WEATHER COMMENT: mcotter: Sun Sep 20 21:22:38 GMT 2020
Temp: 57.6f, Humidity: 11%, Pressure: 28.673in, Wind: 17mph from 42degs, Skies: High altitude Cirrus clouds are increasing over the sky. Images are becoming over saturated. Pausing K-cor, and will wait to see if clouds decrease.
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GPS COMMENT by MLSO: Sun Sep 20 21:45:09 GMT 2020
Successfully logged in to system
Good disk mount
GPS software running
Last 5 GPS data files are:
/mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_259_2145.bin  2147483647
/mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_260_2145.bin  2147483647
/mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_261_2145.bin  2147483647
/mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_262_2145.bin  2147483647
/mnt/usb/dataoutiq_2020_263_2145.bin  2147483647
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GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Mon Sep 21 00:31:37 GMT 2020
Sky is still slightly overcast with Cirrus clouds, but I have restarted K-cor. Image is a little bright, but good enough to take data. I have let the K-cor instrument run for approx an hour and the sky has become overwhelmingly overcast and the images are becoming over saturated. I am shutting down K-cor.
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GONG COMMENT BY mcotter: Mon Sep 21 00:47:46 GMT 2020
GONG shack door closed.
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GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Mon Sep 21 00:48:19 GMT 2020
Closed dome shutter doors and windows.
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GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Mon Sep 21 00:51:14 GMT 2020
Day began with lots of  High altitude Cirrus clouds but I was able to get some data most of the morning where the images were not too over bright. Toward noon time conditions progressively got worse.
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