SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for 24 Nov 1998 Presiding: J. Hollis (SOC) Notes: K. Schenk (EIT) FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal ----------------- Annomalies: ----------- 2 POCC string failures At 10:38 UT CEPAC had ESU Data Request Error just before EOT Announcements: --------------- Delay in commanding today at 15:35 UT to correct CEPAC problems. [Note from SOC: CEPAC recovery completed by 16:02 UT this morning] Tomorrow the daily meeting will continue into the Weekly Planning meeting due to the Thanksgiving Holiday. SPACE WEATHER ------------- SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST: SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE LOW TO MODERATE. M-CLASS FLARE PROBABILITIES MAY INCREASE UPON THE RETURN OF OLD REGION 8375, WHICH PRODUCED A MAJOR FLARE AND A SOLAR PROTON EVENT DURING ITS LAST ROTATION. THERE IS STILL A SMALL, BUT DIMINISHING CHANCE FOR AN ISOLATED M-CLASS FLARE FROM BEYOND THE SOUTHWEST LIMB. GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY FORECAST: THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD IS EXPECTED TO BE AT UNSETTLED TO ACTIVE LEVELS DURING THE FIRST TWO DAYS, THEN DECLINE TO UNSETTLED LEVELS ON DAY THREE. THE GT 2 MEV ELECTRON FLUX MAY RISE TO HIGH LEVELS DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. X1 flare seen in EIT at 02:07 UT behind limb in SSW This flare caused a Halo event seen in both LASCO C2 and C3. At 07:20 UT a CME in WSW. INSTRUMENT REPORTS ------------------ EIT Nominal. CME Watch at 12 min cadence 195A LASCO Nominal. C2 and C3 synotics for CME events C1 FP door closed program, 1 hour cadence in FeXIV/Clear UVCS Nominal. Synoptic scan through the night. During NRT configure for the star Delta Sco observations that will continue for 24 hours. He I Focusing Cone program over the Thanksgiving Holidays. SUMER Door Closed. CDS Nominal. Yesterday modified parameters and pointings in data base. Today, full sun scan and calibrate pointings. High cadence quiet sun observations at disk center which will stay at a fixed point and observe the sun rotation below. MDI Nominal. Running 3 variable high res campaign today and tomorrow ------------------- TRACE Not present.