SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday, 27 January 2000 Chaired by: J. Hollis (SOC) Notes by: DOY: 027 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * CNN has coverage of the spectacular prominance seen by SOHO on January 18. You can see it at: www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/01/26/sun.weather/index.html FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: 024: VIRGO 025: VIRGO, CELIAS, RSL, Acquired new tracking star 026: VIRGO, CELIAS, SWAN, Acquired new tracking star Planned Activities: ViRGO, CELIAS, Nom. HGA Table Upcoming Operations: 2/1 TR Maint. Ground Anomalies: 026/2237 TM dropout and degraded data for 12 minutes due to unexpected RFI. Unrecoverable. SOLAR STATUS ------------ SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST (UPDATED JANUARY 26 at 22 UT): SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE LOW FOR THE FORECAST PERIOD. GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY FORECAST: THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD IS EXPECTED TO BE AT QUIET TO UNSETTLED CONDITIONS THE FIRST DAY OF THE FORECAST. ACTIVE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD AS A RESULT OF A DISTURBANCE FROM A RECURRENT CORONAL HOLE. 01/25 DOY 025 - 01/27 DOY 027 EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20000127.html INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. Coronal Hole Study 07:00-00:00 today and Friday; also observations of AR 8844. UVCS: Nominal. Streamer study above 7 Rsun at position angle 25 Degrees. LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 Synoptics. EIT: Nominal. 195 Angstrom CME watch. MDI: Nominal. Full disk magnetograms and dopplergrams. Will support CDS's Coronal Hole Study starting today. Will most likely stay in full disk mode for the whole week. TRACE: Nominal. Observing AR 8844 today. Will join CDS in Coronal Hole Studay tomorrow. FLARE GENESIS CAMPAIGN COMPLETED -------------------------------- Flare Genesis finished up its campaign observing AR 8844 and was scheduled to terminate the flight at about 05:30 UT today. Congratulations to the Flare Genesis team for your perseverance and successful flight which will provide valuable data to the solar community.