Morning 500 mb chart:
Wednesday Sept 20 Bruce arrived at REAL and worked on the software to enable direct control of the flashlamp voltage. The automatic increase that was in the software was increasing the voltage too high and it was difficult to keep the eye-safe energy at 130mj. The direct control of the flashlamp voltage was implemented and now the voltage in the init file is the value that will be set into the laser. The value of 1.49kV gives an eye-safe energy of 120-125mj.
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Clouds looking West 1545 PDT
Note from the New York Times today with visible satellite image:
Evening 500 mb chart (0 UTC on the 21st)
