----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Jul 01 16:00:59 GMT 2026 Year:26 Doy:182 Observer: lisapg Weather COMMENT BY lisapg: Wed Jul 01 16:19:31 GMT 2026 MLO Current Weather Timestamp (UTC): 2026-07-01 16:14:00 Temperature : 44.09 deg F Dew Point : 5.67 deg F Pressure : 680.76 mbar Wind Speed : 6.04 mph Wind Direction : 166.0 deg Skies: Sky above is clear with some cirrus in the SouthWest-east and Northwest. Clouds in Saddle and in the East are about at 12,000 ft or more. Should be clear to open as soon as the Sun gets higher. ___end___ ** KCOR PM lisapg ** : Wed Jul 01 16:34:50 GMT 2026 Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY lisapg: Wed Jul 01 16:34:54 GMT 2026 Dome open ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY lisapg: Wed Jul 01 16:53:03 GMT 2026 Kcor above dome ___end___ Wed Jul 01 16:54:19 GMT 2026 SGS Alignment complete Wed Jul 01 16:55:33 GMT 2026 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Wed Jul 01 16:56:24 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol ** KCOR PROBLEM REPORTED BY lisapg ** : Wed Jul 01 16:57:24 GMT 2026 Kcor circular acquisition error ___end___ Wed Jul 01 16:58:26 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Weather COMMENT BY lisapg: Wed Jul 01 17:44:28 GMT 2026 MLO Current Weather Skies: Clouds coming in from the East side of Saddle may cause us to close the dome soon. Keeping a very close eye on it ___end___ Wed Jul 01 18:31:14 GMT 2026 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL COMMENT BY lisapg: Wed Jul 01 18:36:55 GMT 2026 Dome closed for moisture in the area ___end___ Wed Jul 01 19:32:18 GMT 2026 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited KCOR COMMENT BY KCOR: Wed Jul 01 19:37:24 GMT 2026 KCOR file transfer report KCor created 387 .bin files 385 .fts files NOTICE ? 2 .bin file(s) with no matching .fts: 20260701_165717_kcor.bin 20260701_183413_kcor.bin Remote site is complete ? no rsync required. ___end___ ** KCOR PROBLEM REPORTED BY lisapg ** : Wed Jul 01 19:39:24 GMT 2026 Kcor circular acquisition error This error came up when i tried to restart KCor. Unfortunately, labview crashed again while trying to restart it. Restarting the KCor computer now ___end___ Wed Jul 01 19:44:10 GMT 2026 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Wed Jul 01 19:45:56 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jul 01 20:25:31 GMT 2026 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jul 01 20:25:33 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini Wed Jul 01 20:39:27 GMT 2026 KCOR ABORT Calibration Script Wed Jul 01 20:39:44 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jul 01 20:39:45 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY lisapg: Wed Jul 01 20:40:54 GMT 2026 Calibration aborted as clouds have come in ___end___ Wed Jul 01 20:58:05 GMT 2026 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited Wed Jul 01 20:59:05 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jul 01 21:30:12 GMT 2026 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jul 01 21:30:13 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini Wed Jul 01 21:45:15 GMT 2026 KCOR End Calibration Script Wed Jul 01 21:45:32 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jul 01 21:45:33 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY lisapg: Wed Jul 01 21:58:34 GMT 2026 Note that the first darks for the second calibration are not present as Ben has been editing code and it threw an error. He's currently working on a fix. ___end___ Wed Jul 01 22:04:13 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Calibration script: c:\kcor\mlso-calibration22deg-20171025.ini Wed Jul 01 22:19:12 GMT 2026 KCOR End Calibration Script Wed Jul 01 22:19:35 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Weather COMMENT BY lisapg: Wed Jul 01 22:28:19 GMT 2026 MLO Current Weather Timestamp (UTC): 2026-07-01 22:23:00 Temperature : 59.22 deg F Dew Point : 35.57 deg F Pressure : 681.47 mbar Wind Speed : 15.21 mph Wind Direction : 15.3 deg Skies: Sky is clear above with aerosols getting a bit heavy and some clouds popping up from the West side of Mauna Loas' shoulder. Keeping an eye on them ___end___ ** KCOR PROBLEM REPORTED BY lisapg ** : Wed Jul 01 23:01:03 GMT 2026 entry was edited An error occurred after Ben saved the instants of the code after he did his dark shutter fix. Error -200088 occurred at K-cor shutter fgv control.vi Possible reason(s): Task specified is invalid or does not exit. ___end___ Wed Jul 01 23:06:01 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY lisapg: Wed Jul 01 23:07:20 GMT 2026 After making sure the instrument was safe, forcing labview to shut down and then bringing it back up resolved the error message. ___end___ Wed Jul 01 23:09:23 GMT 2026 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jul 01 23:11:38 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Wed Jul 01 23:36:57 GMT 2026 KCOR End Patrol Wed Jul 01 23:39:54 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY KCOR: Wed Jul 01 23:55:58 GMT 2026 KCOR file transfer report KCor created 1249 .bin files 1238 .fts files NOTICE ? 11 .bin file(s) with no matching .fts: 20260701_165717_kcor.bin 20260701_183413_kcor.bin 20260701_204038_kcor.bin 20260701_215334_kcor.bin 20260701_215349_kcor.bin 20260701_215404_kcor.bin 20260701_215419_kcor.bin 20260701_215434_kcor.bin 20260701_215450_kcor.bin 20260701_225726_kcor.bin 20260701_235520_kcor.bin Remote site is complete ? no rsync required. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY lisapg: Thu Jul 02 00:02:27 GMT 2026 Besides a few hiccups with some code and the low clouds early in the morning, it was a nice day to take data. ___end___ Logger COMMENT BY lisapg: Thu Jul 02 00:02:30 GMT 2026 Log closed ONSITE STAFF: lisapg ___end___