----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Jul 5 16:50:18 GMT 2022 Year: 22 Doy: 186 Observer: mcotter WEATHER COMMENT: mcotter: Tue Jul 05 16:52:04 GMT 2022 Temp: 48.3f, Humidity: 6%, Pressure: 28.709in, Wind: 4mph from 138degs, Skies: Clear but hazy skies. High altitude Cirrus clouds are scattered in patches across all areas of the sky. The inversion layer is a dark blue gray and is well below the summit of Haleakala. Light wind from the south-southeast. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Tue Jul 05 16:52:11 GMT 2022 Opened windows upstairs ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Tue Jul 05 16:52:17 GMT 2022 PM Blew off UCoMP O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Tue Jul 05 16:52:22 GMT 2022 PM Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Tue Jul 05 16:53:30 GMT 2022 Clouds are currently in the viewing area. Cannot begin observing at this time. ___end___ Tue Jul 05 17:45:11 GMT 2022 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited KCOR COMMENT BY mcotter: Tue Jul 05 17:48:01 GMT 2022 The sky remains very bright, but after many operations of the Focus Routine an acceptable parabola was obtained and the Kcor instrument is now observing. ___end___ Tue Jul 05 17:48:31 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook all_wavelength_coronal_flat.cbk line 0 UCoMP COMMENT BY mcotter: Tue Jul 05 17:48:45 GMT 2022 The Ucomp instrument is now observing. ___end___ Tue Jul 05 17:50:53 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook all_wavelength_coronal_flat.cbk line 2 WEATHER COMMENT: mcotter: Tue Jul 05 17:51:50 GMT 2022 The sky remains quite bright and aerosols are heavy. ___end___ Tue Jul 05 18:05:01 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook all_wavelength_coronal.cbk line 0 WEATHER COMMENT: mcotter: Tue Jul 05 18:13:22 GMT 2022 Aerosols continue to be heavy and are readily observed in the Kcor NRGF and Quicklook images. ___end___ Tue Jul 05 18:30:22 GMT 2022 UCoMP Paused for clouds Tue Jul 05 18:31:01 GMT 2022 UCoMP Restarted from pause Tue Jul 05 18:33:20 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook all_wavelength_coronal.cbk line 0 WEATHER COMMENT: mcotter: Tue Jul 05 18:33:48 GMT 2022 Bands of high altitude Cirrus clouds are beginning to cross the viewing path. The Kcor image momentarily became very bright but quickly returned to normal. ___end___ Tue Jul 05 18:45:23 GMT 2022 UCoMP Paused for clouds KCOR COMMENT BY mcotter: Tue Jul 05 19:01:55 GMT 2022 Kcor had been paused do to bands of Cirrus clouds passing through the viewing area. After waiting several minutes the sky appeared to clear, but when I restarted Kcor the level 0 Synoptic images appeared too bright, with the brightening illumination emanating from the center (near the occulter) outward. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY mcotter: Tue Jul 05 19:11:38 GMT 2022 An attempt was made to restart the Kcor instrument but the sky remains entirely too bright to observe at this time. ___end___ WEATHER COMMENT: mcotter: Tue Jul 05 19:31:59 GMT 2022 Sky conditions continue to be much too bright to observe at this time. ___end___ Tue Jul 05 20:02:56 GMT 2022 UCoMP Restarted from pause WEATHER COMMENT: mcotter: Tue Jul 05 20:04:07 GMT 2022 The bands of high altitude Cirrus clouds that were disrupting our observations have dissipated. The instruments are again observing. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY mcotter: Tue Jul 05 20:04:34 GMT 2022 The kcor instrument is again on sky and observing. ___end___ UCoMP COMMENT BY mcotter: Tue Jul 05 20:05:08 GMT 2022 The Ucomp instrument is again on sky and observing. ___end___ Tue Jul 05 20:16:35 GMT 2022 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini Tue Jul 05 20:22:30 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook all_wavelength_coronal.cbk line 18 Tue Jul 05 20:22:31 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook all_wavelength_coronal.cbk line 0 Tue Jul 05 20:31:49 GMT 2022 KCOR End Calibration Script Tue Jul 05 20:50:08 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook all_wavelength_coronal_flat.cbk line 0 Tue Jul 05 21:05:19 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook waves_1074_1hour.cbk line 0 WEATHER COMMENT: mcotter: Tue Jul 05 21:25:14 GMT 2022 The sky is beginning to get brighter, but so far the images still look acceptable. ___end___ WEATHER COMMENT: mcotter: Tue Jul 05 21:58:40 GMT 2022 The sky continues to brighten, as observed in the Kcor level 0 images and the aerosols are increasing dramatically, as observed in the Kcor NRGF and Quicklook images. ___end___ Tue Jul 05 22:15:08 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook dark_80ms_2beam_16sums_BOTH.cbk line 0 Tue Jul 05 22:16:25 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook 637_Pol_Calibrate.cbk line 0 Tue Jul 05 22:20:28 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook 706_Pol_Calibrate.cbk line 0 Tue Jul 05 22:24:32 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook 789_Pol_Calibrate.cbk line 0 Tue Jul 05 22:28:36 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook 1074_Pol_Calibrate.cbk line 0 Tue Jul 05 22:32:49 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook 1079_Pol_Calibrate.cbk line 0 Tue Jul 05 22:36:52 GMT 2022 Running UCOMP Cookbook all_wavelength_coronal.cbk line 0 Tue Jul 05 22:44:37 GMT 2022 UCoMP Paused for clouds GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Tue Jul 05 22:46:44 GMT 2022 The instruments are again paused due to increasing brightness of the sky. ___end___ Tue Jul 05 23:27:16 GMT 2022 UCoMP Restarted from pause GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Tue Jul 05 23:35:04 GMT 2022 The day started with bright skies but observations were able to be performed until mid morning when high altitude Cirrus began to pass through the viewing area. By late morning, early afternoon the sky became saturated with aerosols and became too bright to observe. ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: