------------------------------------------------------------------ 08/09 August, 2005 ---------------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS Weak lightning activity over the Mediterranian south of France. _____________________ PIC DU MIDI _____________________ OPERATOR Anna Odzimek VIEWING DIRECTION South, about 40-42N 3 E, 40km elevation PROBLEMS/COMMENTS Problems with frequent triggerring. SPRITES No sprites observed. _____________________ PUY DE DOME _____________________ OPERATOR Agnes Mika VIEWING DIRECTION About 42N 2.5N, 55-60 km elevation to avoid city lights PROBLEMS/COMMENTS SPRITES No sprites observed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 09/10 August, 2005 ---------------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS Moderate lightning activity over northern Spain and just south of Pic. _____________________ PIC DU MIDI _____________________ OPERATOR Agnes Mika VIEWING DIRECTION South at first, but view obscured by the tower for meteorological instruments. Northern Spain for the most of the night, around 44N 5W PROBLEMS/COMMENTS Uploads weren't working for a while, the files appeared in random order on the web. After killing/restarting for a couple of times it started to work, but delayed by more than one hour. Had to upload raw images by hand in order to be able to view them. SPRITES No sprites observed. _____________________ PUY DE DOME _____________________ OPERATOR Anna Odzimek VIEWING DIRECTION Mostly to the south towards East Pyrenees ~ 42N 2E Sometimes to the south-West towards Spain ~ 44N 7W PROBLEMS/COMMENTS Problems with connecting to Puy machine to turn on the interface which delayed observations significantly. SPRITES No sprites observed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10/11 August, 2005 ---------------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS Thunderstorms over western France, moving during the night to east. _____________________ PIC DU MIDI _____________________ OPERATOR Agnes Mika VIEWING DIRECTION Mostly around 2E 44N, tracking the storm PROBLEMS/COMMENTS The uploads were delayed by 2 hours again. At about 01 UT it suddenly started to be fine, but erased 10 minutes of raw images from the recent directory. SPRITES No sprites were captured. The camera was in the clouds all the time. _____________________ PUY DE DOME _____________________ OPERATOR Anna Odzimek VIEWING DIRECTION South East France and beyond ~ 43-47N 3-10E PROBLEMS/COMMENTS many false ''events'' triggered by illumination from clouds casued by strong lightning activity not very far from the observatory SPRITES No sprites observed, one strong elve/sprite halo??? - subject of discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11/12 August, 2005 ---------------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS Thunderstorm activity over south-east France and Italy _____________________ PIC DU MIDI _____________________ OPERATOR Agnes Mika VIEWING DIRECTION Following the thunderstorms. Camera covered by clouds up to just before dawn. PROBLEMS/COMMENTS The disk of omp@tenma.dsri.dk became full. Olivier has solved the problem by the evening of 12 August by moving the Sprite2003 and Sprite2004 material to another disk. SPRITES No sprites. _____________________ PUY DE DOME _____________________ OPERATOR Anna Odzimek VIEWING DIRECTION To the south east of France 43-44N 6-8E PROBLEMS/COMMENTS Problems with uploading files and viewing results instantly SPRITES 2005.08.11 | 22:44:15.63 | Wide: 1 frame | Narrow: 1 | 2005.08.11 | 23:02:21.04 | Wide: 2 frame | Narrow: 0 | 2005.08.11 | 23:12:39.24 | Wide: 1 frame | Narrow: 0 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/13 August, 2005 ---------------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS Everything's calm and still. No thunderstorms. _____________________ PIC DU MIDI _____________________ OPERATOR Anna Odzimek VIEWING DIRECTION Pan: ~40-50 tilt ~60 to look for Perseids PROBLEMS/COMMENTS SPRITES No sprites _____________________ PUY DE DOME _____________________ OPERATOR Agnes Mika VIEWING DIRECTION Pan: -150 and 100, tilt: 42.7 The aim was to capture some of the Perseids. PROBLEMS/COMMENTS SPRITES No sprites, no Perseids (no triggered images). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13/14 August, 2005 ---------------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS Weak and sporadic lightning activity over Northern Italy/Switzerland, also weak over northern France in the last part of the night _____________________ PIC DU MIDI _____________________ OPERATOR Anna Odzimek VIEWING DIRECTION At the beggining ~46 N 8 E, at the end ~50 N 2.4 E PROBLEMS/COMMENTS Problems with frequent triggering of the camera and producing images (even every several seconds) Turned off most of the night because of the problems and no lightning activity SPRITES No sprites observed _____________________ PUY DE DOME _____________________ OPERATOR Agnes Mika VIEWING DIRECTION Around 45N 8E, Northern Italy. PROBLEMS/COMMENTS View to the north, north-east completely blocked by large building :( SPRITES No sprites have been recorded. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14/15 August, 2005 ---------------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS Weak lightning activity over Italy, too far for our cameras. _____________________ PIC DU MIDI _____________________ OPERATOR Mika Agnes VIEWING DIRECTION Around 47.5N, 11E PROBLEMS/COMMENTS The "usual" frequent triggering. SPRITES No sprites were captured. _____________________ PUY DE DOME _____________________ OPERATOR Anna Odzimek VIEWING DIRECTION First 46 N 6.5E, then 44.6N 12E PROBLEMS/COMMENTS Most of the time not observing because of clouds in a view and too distant lightning activity SPRITES No sprites observed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------