LaPalma Observations:

 Date:  03-July-1998
 Observer:   Brian Handy
 Weather:    Too warm, slight breeze out of the southwest.
 
 
 Summary: Seeing was fair to miserable today.  Surveyed the various
    sunspots for upcoming TRACE observations, looking for the "Biggest,
    Meanest Sunspots for D. Shine.  Did this as rapidly as possible
    before the seeing degenerated to "The Sun as a Star" quality.
 
 Date:       04-July-1998
 Observer:   Brian Handy
 Weather:    Clear w/ cool breeze at 06:00 UT.  Warmer and still
             towards mid-afternoon.
 
 
 Summary: Continued observations of AR #8253, now on the limb.  
 
 
 Seeing started out quite good but gradually deteriorated over the
 course of a few hours.  Nevertheless we got some good observations of
 #8253 in G-band, Halpha and Ca K, with a field of view covering the
 spot and the bright features (as defined by G-band and H-alpha
 structures) to what I think is the southeast.  In H-alpha we saw what
 I'll interpret as the bases of expanding loop structures from near the
 sunspot, a nice jet and quite a bit of activity in the trailing spots.
 In G-band we captured the fragmenting of the sunspot into two pieces
 (around 8:30 UT) before seeing degenerated significantly.
 
 Observing resumed at 15:30 UT when the winds picked and the seeing
 again improved.  We continued with the same cameras and observing
 sequences and got some great movies of stuff streaming into the corona
 in H-alpha.  Seeing again took a turn for the worse and we folded up
 camp at 18:25 UT.


 Date:       05-July-1998
 Observer:   Brian Handy
 Weather:    Clear, cool, breezy. <1% humidity.
 
 
 Summary:  Observations of AR #8264 in coordination with TRACE.
 
 
 The field of view was centered somewhat to the east of the main spot
 to try and catch the evolution of the spot and filament simultaneously
 in the Halpha field of view.  Seeing was quite good in the morning,
 and the excitement hit at about 11:19 UT when we observed a flare in
 the Halpha and Ca K cameras.  The flare lasted about ninety minutes,
 with the Halpha image settling down to normal at around 12:50 UT.  RAS
 has already reported this event shows up as a C8 flare in the GOES
 plot.  We found nothing obvious in the G-band images.  Seeing began to
 deteriorate in the early afternoon and we folded up shop at about
 15:00 UT.