----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Aug 7 16:39:21 GMT 2015 Year: 15 Doy: 219 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Fri Aug 07 16:42:49 GMT 2015 Temp: 47.0f, Humidity: 87%, Pressure: 28.685in, Wind: 13mph from SE, Skies: Partly clear there is a fog bank about 1/2 mile to the east that appears to be sending small puffs every few minutes. Holding off on opening the dome for a little bit. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Aug 07 18:27:41 GMT 2015 Socked in now. There is also a lot of sulfur in the air yuck. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Aug 07 19:46:51 GMT 2015 Things are starting to clear up but patches of fog/moisture continue to peridocily come in from the cloud bank to the SE. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Aug 07 20:12:03 GMT 2015 The SE fog make has disapated. Opening the dome. ___end___ CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Aug 07 20:12:41 GMT 2015 Running CoMP with the menu upgrade. ___end___ Fri Aug 07 20:16:50 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00001.cbk Fri Aug 07 20:21:12 GMT 2015 CoMP Paused for clouds CoMP COMMENT BY berkey: Fri Aug 07 20:23:11 GMT 2015 Sucker hole :( ___end___ Fri Aug 07 20:26:11 GMT 2015 CoMP Restarted from pause Fri Aug 07 20:26:11 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol Fri Aug 07 21:05:40 GMT 2015 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00001.cbk Fri Aug 07 21:08:52 GMT 2015 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Aug 07 21:15:30 GMT 2015 KCOR End Patrol Fri Aug 07 21:24:20 GMT 2015 CoMP Paused for clouds Fri Aug 07 21:28:33 GMT 2015 CoMP Restarted from pause Fri Aug 07 21:28:33 GMT 2015 COMP End Patrol ****Possible CME in Progress berkey******: Fri Aug 7 22:21:02 GMT 2015 At about 21:10UT between clouds we saw the expanding shell of a CME that launched about 1 solar radii off the limb near PA120. This appears to be a very fast with one of the shockwaves moving about 1/5 of a solar radii in 8 minutes. This activity appears to be related to the limb eruption seen in Halpha that launched around 19:40UT also near PA120. ___end___ You can check out the image data at: http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu