Year = 2008
Month = November
Day = 08
Day-of-year = 313
Site = Poker_Flat
Sunrise = 18:06
Sunset = 01:00
Moonrise = 00:15
Moonset = 10:50
Moon_age = 9
Aurora = Storm - Aurora filled the sky for extended periods
Cloud = Diffuse or hazy cloud, but sky features discernable at most times
Magnetometer = Minor Storm
ASC = Unknown
Digital_ASC = Ran all night, good data
MSP = Ran all night on all channels
SDI = Ran all night, good data
Comments = An interesting night. Magnetic perturbations reached 800 gamma, although the CIGO magnetometer data has very large gaps. (PKR worked fine.) There was plenty of thin cloud - enough to produce lots of scattering and to obscure stars. But it was rarely thick enough to fully obscure the moon. So the FPS data should be viewed with some caution. Having said this, the winds actually LOOK quite good - and may indeed BE quite good. Temperatures are fine, of course. Note also - we finally fixed the tilted filter box during the afternoon before tonight's observations. The "north-east temperature brightness anomalies" should now be gone!
MC