5/6 September 2005 WEATHER CONDITIONS ________________________ 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. ____________________________ PUY DE DOME ____________________________ OPERATOR Peter Berg VIEWING DIRECTION Toward storms in norhtern Spain and outside Frence south coast PROBLEMS/COMMENTS Cloudy most of the time SPRITES None ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6/7 September 2005 Weather conditions: Cyclone centered around Biscaya with front along Mediterranean coast. Persistent thunderstorms over Mediterranean between south France and Corsica. Stations cloudy. ________________________ PIC DU MIDI ________________________ 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: Peter Berg/Carl-Fredrik Enell VIEWING DIRECTION: see pic log 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 September 2005 WEATHER CONDITIONS Stations cloudy. Few thunderstorms ________________________ PIC DU MIDI ________________________ 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:None ____________________________ PUY DE DOME ____________________________ No contact with blackbox. No thunderstorms close anyway. OPERATOR ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8/9 September 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 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: None PUY DE DOME ____________________________ OPERATOR Peter Berg VIEWING DIRECTION Following storms near the French southern coastline. PROBLEMS/COMMENTS clouds blocking the view. After about 23 UT the view was quite clear. SPRITES 2005.09.09 01:08:10 | c0 | - | Pan: 46.5 Tilt: 12.8 [possibly a sprite, or connected to event at 01:08:11] 2005.09.09 01:08:11 | c0 | - | Pan: 46.5 Tilt: 12.8 [probably triggered by +CG at 01:08:09 latitude 43.76 longitude 6.18 strength: 114400] 2005-09-09 03:02:14 | c0 | - | Pan: -52.6 Tilt: 7.5 [probably triggered by +CG at 03:02:12 latitude: 43.68 longitude: 43.68 strength: 177900] Halo? 2005-09-09 03:45:44 | c0 | - | Pan: -51.6 Tilt: 12.5 [close strikes: 2005/09/09 03:45:42 3507999 7.137100 43.856600 170300 2005/09/09 03:45:42 3886371 7.082000 43.918900 81200 2005/09/09 03:45:44 1459465 8.253400 42.714500 18700] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9/10 September 2005 WEATHER CONDITIONS Clear. Thunderstorms toward bay of Biscaya. Cloudy from 22 UT with storms north of station From 1:40 UT cloudy and no thunderstorms ________________________ PIC DU MIDI ________________________ 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 VIEWING DIRECTION see log for pic du midi PROBLEMS/COMMENTS SPRITES None OPERATOR Peter Berg VIEWING DIRECTION southeast PROBLEMS/COMMENTS cloudy SPRITES None ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10/11 September 2005 WEATHER CONDITIONS Starting unstable. Sometimes visible stars. Constant clouds 20UT - _______________________ PIC DU MIDI ________________________ 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: None ____________________________ PUY DE DOME ____________________________ OPERATOR Peter Berg VIEWING DIRECTION see pic du midi log PROBLEMS/COMMENTS cloudy most of the time. Sometimes stars, but also thin clouds. SPRITES None ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11/12 September 2005 WEATHER CONDITIONS cloudy around Pic Storms mainly over Italy ________________________ PIC DU MIDI ________________________ 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 checked ~3:45 and shut down. PROBLEMS: Clouds SPRITES: ____________________________ PUY DE DOME ____________________________ OPERATOR Peter Berg VIEWING DIRECTION see pic log Peter -> CF 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 to bed 02:23 42 8 80 cloudy, checking 02:24 46 8 80 cloudy 02:31 40 8 80