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Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log
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Sun Apr 05 17:19:21 GMT 2026
Year:26 Doy:095
Observer: lisapg
Weather  BY lisapg: Sun Apr 05 17:20:41 GMT 2026
MLO Current Weather 
Timestamp (UTC): 2026-04-05 17:17:00
Temperature    : 44.2  deg F
Dew Point      : -9.62  deg F
Pressure       : 677.89 mbar
Wind Speed     : 11.63 mph
Wind Direction : 203.4  deg
Skies: Currently clear with a light haze at 10,000 ft.
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GENERAL COMMENT BY lisapg: Sun Apr 05 17:36:25 GMT 2026
Opened windows upstairs
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GENERAL COMMENT BY lisapg: Sun Apr 05 17:36:31 GMT 2026
Dome open
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KCOR COMMENT BY lisapg: Sun Apr 05 17:37:23 GMT 2026
Waiting for Ben to finish up with the Kcor O1 before starting.
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** KCOR PM berkey ** : Sun Apr 05 18:25:34 GMT 2026
Kcor o1 first contact  First contact removed from the O1 front surface.  It looked significant better than yesterday.  After this was completed the front surface was rinsed and the back surface was washed to remove dust on the back.  The O1 blown off before installation.
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KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Sun Apr 05 19:33:18 GMT 2026
kcor Calibration  started at 19:31
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KCOR COMMENT BY berkey: Sun Apr 05 19:49:19 GMT 2026
kcor Calibration ended
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** KCOR PROBLEM REPORTED BY berkey ** : Sun Apr 05 19:55:57 GMT 2026 entry was edited
Kcor circular acquisition error  Socketcam had a circular board acquisition error at 19:38 and jumped polarization state.  This was during the calibration, so we should not process /use that set of data.
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KCOR COMMENT BY lisapg: Sun Apr 05 20:15:35 GMT 2026 entry was edited
kcor Calibration started
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KCOR COMMENT BY lisapg: Sun Apr 05 20:33:00 GMT 2026 entry was edited
kcor Calibration ended
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Weather  BY lisapg: Sun Apr 05 21:19:08 GMT 2026
MLO Current Weather 
Timestamp (UTC): 2026-04-05 21:14:00
Temperature    : 50.38  deg F
Dew Point      : 20.03  deg F
Pressure       : 678.72 mbar
Wind Speed     : 9.62 mph
Wind Direction : 345.7  deg
Skies: Sky is clear but aerosols are starting to pick up.
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Weather COMMENT BY lisapg: Sun Apr 05 22:45:50 GMT 2026
MLO Current Weather 
Timestamp (UTC): 2026-04-05 22:41:00
Temperature    : 50.13  deg F
Dew Point      : 28.25  deg F
Pressure       : 678.18 mbar
Wind Speed     : 10.29 mph
Wind Direction : 356.7  deg
Skies: Some cloud are popping up to the South-Southeast of Mauna Loas shoulder and a few wisps of cirrus are coming in from the West; will keep an eye on them.
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KCOR COMMENT BY lisapg: Sun Apr 05 22:58:45 GMT 2026
Cirrus crossing, idling Kcor for now.
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** GENERAL PROBLEM REPORTED BY lisapg ** : Sun Apr 05 23:07:46 GMT 2026
Lost the network, working on figuring out what happened.
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KCOR COMMENT BY lisapg: Sun Apr 05 23:30:14 GMT 2026
Clouds passing, kcor stopped for now
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KCOR COMMENT BY lisapg: Sun Apr 05 23:51:34 GMT 2026
Sucker hole, seems we may be clouded over for the rest of the day....
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KCOR COMMENT BY KCOR: Mon Apr 06 00:10:08 GMT 2026
KCOR file transfer report
KCor created  1215 .bin files  
1212 .fts files  
  NOTICE ? 3 .bin file(s) with no matching .fts:
    20260405_195252_kcor.bin
    20260405_232919_kcor.bin
    20260405_234545_kcor.bin
  Remote site is complete ? no rsync required.

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KCOR COMMENT BY lisapg: Mon Apr 06 00:51:19 GMT 2026
Kcor realtime software  Updated the kcor labview code to interact with the new logger software.   We should not get exact start and stop times for the calibrations where other recent times were approximates noted by the observer.
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Logger COMMENT BY : Mon Apr 06 00:54:19 GMT 2026
Log closed
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