Year = 2012
Month = December
Day = 29
Day-of-year = 364
Site = Toolik_Lake
Sunrise = 20:07
Sunset = 23:35
Moonrise = 01:12
Moonset = 19:38
Moon_age = 16
Aurora = Quiet - Arcs clearly visible, but mostly north of zenith
Cloud = Clear all night
Magnetic_Activity = Quiet
ASC = Unknown
KEO = Unknown
SDI = Ran all night, good data
Comments = Toolik SDI was not operating correctly at the start of the night. Control program was running, but each exposure was taking an order of magnitude longer than it should, and resulting data were not useful. Remote desktop access to the PC was not working. Did a power-cycle reboot of the control PC, after which the instrument appeared to be working normally. I then erased all existing spectra files for the day, did steps/order & phase map calibrations, and restarted routine obs. All spectral data then looked good. However the real-time analysis products still looked awful. I am hoping this is just because the analysis was somehow still using instrument functions from the earlier period when all spectra were severely distorted. Hopefully the post-processed data should be fine.
MC 29-Dec-2012
(Update 31-Dec-2012: Post-processed data are just fine - excellent, in fact.)