SOHO Meeting Minutes for Monday, 13 March 2000 Chaired by: J. Hollis (SOC) Notes by: E. Zamkoff (MDI) DOY: 073 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- Commanding: 30 minutes of NRT available at 17:30 UT today, then 18-19 UT - CEPAC upload, followed by NRT until the end of pass. DSS-27 Downlink only station Thursday afternoon 17-18:55 UT. * Max Millenium pointing for tomorrow is AR 8906 in the south. * ICAL001 begins at 19:50 UT tomorrow, centered at X=0, Y=200. Wednesday's ICAL001 will begin at 20 UT as originally planned. FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: 070: VIRGO, RSL, New control star (mag = 4.95) Extra hour of VC2, per OCD #1358 071: VIRGO, SWAN 072: VIRGO, Noncoho, FSM Planned Activities: VIRGO Acquire nw tracking star, mag = 6.5 CEPAC software upload at ~1800 Upcoming Operations: 077/1500 Switch to Submode 6 Ground Anomalies: 071/00:47 Degraded R/T TLM from 0047 to 0056, due to big pipe failure. Data is recoverable via the CDR. SOLAR STATUS ------------ SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST: SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE MODERATE. REGION 8906 WILL CONTINUE PRODUCING C-CLASS X-RAY ACTIVITY WITH A GOOD CHANCE FOR AN M-CLASS EVENT. MOSTLY C-CLASS ACTIVITY WITH AN ISOLATED CHANCE FOR AN M-CLASS EVENT, EXPECTED FROM REGIONS 8898 AND 8904 AS THEY APPROACH THE WEST LIMB. GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY FORECAST: THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AT QUIET TO ACTIVE LEVELS. ISOLATED MINOR STORMING PERIODS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE AGAIN, MOSTLY AT HIGH LATITUDES. 03/10 DOY 070 - 03/13 DOY 073 EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20000313.html INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. Today: full sun scan, JOP 121, Max Millennium campaign. Tomorrow: JOP 121 several times, interplume oscillations study, Max Millennium campaign. SUMER: Nominal. ICAL tomorrow. UVCS: Nominal. Global dynamics study either over the north pole in support of the LASCO solar wind study or a target of opportunity (CME). LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics and 10 minute cadence subfield images over the north pole in C3. EIT: Nominal. Today: half resolution CME watch. Tomorrow: half resolution CME watch and ICAL. MDI: Nominal. Full disk magnetograms and dopplergrams. TRACE: Nominal. Today: AR study in the southwest, software reload. Tomorrow: engineering studies, ICAL, Max Millennium campaign.