This is a new LOFAR report sent to me by Mike Jefferson:

January 1, 2008

You need to look at GOES and SOHO(UVI & MDI)!!!! There is a huge object of interest @ 8:30 on the solar disc which is developing into a major sunspot group! Would be a great backyard project, except for the clouds! LOFAR II is getting this object as we speak, barring that nothing goes haywire! Right now, we’re getting C-0 radiation and it is not even facing us! Is there no way that some of these graphs can’t be put up on the site? I know it is possible, because the people at the UPS stores can do it for me as you have seen?!? – without printing up 300 pages of data.
To date, after 22 days, we have over 380,000 observations! The cost of this telescope is getting less and less/observation by the minute. Technologically, this is a very sophisticated instrument which is going to lead to some great stuff for HAA. We have a ‘new’ (Merry Christmas!!) fileserver coming online to replace SAL (the Aptiva) which is headed for lesser duties of image and chart processing. That will mean 3 computers having to do with running LOFAR II in some way!
There is NO other telescope/lens doing any astronomy, in this area right now, and there has not been much done at all in the last 3 weeks, except for the LOFAR II project!!!!! This is incredible – we look through the clouds and snow!
-HAA, observing 24hr.s/day everyday,
-Mike