5-6/9 Weather conditions: stable thunderstorms around 42oN, 3oE (south France and Mediterranean sea) and around 42oN, 0o (Pyrenees). Mainly negative strokes but occasional strong positive strokes as well. Both stations in clouds. PIC DU MIDI ----------- OPERATOR: Carl-Fredrik Enell VIEWING DIRECTION: mainly around 42N, 3E, trying also to follow thunderstorm in Pyrenees closer to 0o longitude PROBLEMS: Spritewatch needed a few reboots before working properly. SPRITES: Pic du Midi in clouds, no viewing conditions. Probably no observations. _________________________________________________________________________________ 6-7/9 2005 Weather conditions: Cyclone centered around Biscaya with front along Mediterranean coast. Persistent thunderstorms over Mediterranean between south France and Corsica. Stations cloudy. OPERATOR: Carl-Fredrik Enell VIEWING DIRECTION: (See pan/tilt log) 18:58 43, 3.5, 40 19:18 Staying close to 42.5, 5, 60 to cover easterly direction with two thunderstorm systems, one over land and one further out over sea. Moving around for testing 19:56 moving to 43 5 65 and going to bed, automatic run 01:16 Tilting to 43.5 5 65 at both sites 01:40 Tilting to 43 7 65 01:46 To 41 1 60 (southern storms) 01:51 Back to 43.5 6 65 around 44 7 75 02:36 43.5 6.5 65 02:46 To 43.5 7.5 65 Stopped around 04:15 PROBLEMS: Clouds. 00:47 Checking, Pic computer rebooted 21:56 by Olivier. Still cloudy. Started spritewatch here too (mistake) 01:18 Killing and restarting spritewatch SPRITES: Yes! 02:16, Pic has clear sky. Triggering but probably no more sprites later. PUY de DOME ----------- OPERATOR: Carl-Fredrik Enell VIEWING DIRECTION: 01:16 Tilting to 43.5 6 65 at both sites 01:40 Tilting to 43 7 65 01:46 to 45 5 60 01:51 Back to 43.5 6 65 44 7 65 02:36 43.5 6.5 65 02:46 43.5 7.5 65 ____________________________________________________________________________________ 7-8/9 2005 Weather conditions: Stations cloudy. Few thunderstorms OPERATOR: Carl-Fredrik Enell VIEWING DIRECTION: (See pan/tilt log) Starting around 19 UT, South (39 0 60) 19:30 Rebooted and pointing 41.5, 2.2, 60 19:37 Back 39 0 65 ~19:40 41.4 2.1 50 19:47 42 5 60 19:51 41.4 2.1 50 20:00 39 0 50 20:20 39.3 0.3 65 PROBLEMS: Clouds. ~19 Camera problems (noise, horizontal stripes) 19:30 Rebooted PC and restarted, pictures OK. SPRITES: PUY de DOME ----------- No contact with blackbox. No thunderstorms close anyway. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 8-9/9 2005 Weather conditions: Unstable. Good storms between Sardinia and Africa and around Corsica PIC du MIDI ----------- OPERATOR: Carl-Fredrik Enell VIEWING DIRECTION: (See pan/tilt log) Starting around 19:15 UT Hunting for positive lightning for a while 20 UT Staying around 44 4.2 65, there are +cg Largest +cg are around Sardinia but no cameras there 20:22 going 41 4 65 ? to storm at 44 5 65 ~21:05 44.3 4 65 -- may have missed times see log and yahoo history 22:02 43.8 5 22:20 42 6 22:43 44 4 60 23:45 43 5 60 00:03 43 6 60 00:15 43.5 5 65 00:30 43 6 70 1:36 44 6 65 1:44 43.5 5 60 3:50 42.2 7.5 60 3:59 42.5 7.5 65 PROBLEMS: Clouds. SPRITES: PUY de DOME ----------- _________________________________________________________________________________________ 9-10/9 2005 PIC du MIDI ----------- Weather: Clear. Thunderstorms toward bay of Biscaya. Cloudy from 22 UT with storms north of station From 1:40 UT cloudy and no thunderstorms OPERATOR: Carl-Fredrik Enell VIEWING: ~19:10 movie to check visibility, gain reduced due to twilight 19:15 43.9 -2.2 60 Offset of rows and columns reduced to 0, no triggers. 19:19 Above direction looks at the tower. 19:25 44 -2 60 19:30 tilting down to 10km to check triggering. Yes, triggers on city lights. Back to 50km. 19:42 Going 45 -2 60 to avoid tower and horizon, storm also going NE. 19:50 44.5 -2 60 20:20 up to 70km, many lightnings at horizon 20:37 44.5 -1 70 21:07 44 -1 21:22 44.8 -1.5 21:48 44.8 -0.5 21:59 44 0 60 22:06 44.7 -0.3 22:13 44.8 -0.1 22:18 44 0.3 22:22 45 0 22:30 45 -0.3 22:37 back to 45 0 22:50 45.3 -1 22:59 47.5 -2.5 23:11 44.8 0.5 23:31 44 1 0:0 46 0 0:18 45 1 0:34 45.5 0.5 1:11 46 1 70 (after killing qt20 several times) 1:32 46.5 0.8 70 starting again after problems 2:00, 47 1 02:22 Giving up, leaving at 44 -2 60 until dawn PROBLEMS: Many triggers on background + clouds 20:15 Trying increased offset (25). Still triggers on lightnings at horizon when pointing down to 40km. so leaving the higher offset qt20 sometimes has problems when going from pan -x to +x Power failure, down between 0:57 and 1:58 UT without noticing :( but cloudy anyway, restarted at 02 UT SPRITES: 20:35 Interesting structure PUY de DOME ----------- Operator: Peter Berg moved by CFE 22:06 44.7 -0.3 22:13 44.8 -0.1 22:18 44 0.3 22:22 45 0 22:30 45 -0.3 down to 10km to test trigger 22:37 back to 45 0 _________________________________________________________________________________________ 10-11/9 2005 PIC du MIDI ----------- Weather: Starting unstable. Sometimes visible stars. Constant clouds 20UT - OPERATOR: Carl-Fredrik Enell VIEWING: 19:22 43.2 6 19:39 43.2 6.5 19:54 44 -2.5 19:59 44.5 -2.5 trying to avoid tower, cloudy 20:05 moving around to see if sky is clear going 44.9 5.1 but cloudy 20:16 43 7 70 cloudy 20:19 44.2 -2.5 cloudy 20:27 45 -1.5 cloudy 20:32 44.5 5 cloudy 20:37 44 -2 20:42 43.2 2.1 20:44 43.5 2 together with Puy, cloudy 20:55 46.5 6 21:08 44 -2 still cloudy 21:19 43.7 1.8 stars! 21:25 correcting 43.2 2 21:36 44 5 cloudy 22:33 44.5 6 still cloudy 00:02 44 -1 cloudy 00:07 back 44.5 6 00:26 45.5 7.5 00:32 44 6 65 00:43 45 -2 65 still cloudy 00:50 45.5 7.5 75 looking around 01:10 41.5 8 70 01:13 44 -1 60 01:15 42 0 40 no cloudy all around 01:17 back 45.5 7.5 triggered on city lights when moving 01:22 41 7.5 stars! 01:25 41 7 no, clouds back 01:35 44 8 75 01:51 41 7 01:56 44 -1.5 02:01 41 7.5 cloudy 02:08 44 8 02:17 44 -1 PROBLEMS: Clouds SPRITES: PUY de DOME ----------- __________________________________________________________________________________ 11-12/9 2005 PIC du MIDI ----------- Weather: cloudy around Pic Storms mainly over Italy OPERATOR: Carl-Fredrik Enell VIEWING: 19:12 41.7 1.3 local thunderstorm, cloudy 19:32 46 8 19:51 44.5 9, on the limit, cloudy 19:56 42.5 1.2 cloudy 20:42 testing 44.7 9 20:54 42.9 1.7 21:03 44.5 -2.5 21:57 41 7.5 still cloudy and few thunderstorms 22:05 44.5 9 and leaving still cloudy 00:25 40 7 65 00:29 40 6.5 65 leaving, cloudy 02:31 40 8 75 cloudy PROBLEMS: Clouds SPRITES: PUY de DOME ----------- 00:25 40 7 70 00:29 40 6.5 75 Overexposed, lamp-lit clouds 00:35 testing 46 8 cloudy too 00:42 40 6.5 75->80 02:23 42 8 80 cloudy 02:24 46 8 80 cloudy 02:31 40 8 80 ______________________________________________________________________________________