SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday, 03 August 2000 Chaired by: J. Hollis (SOC) DOY: 216 FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: VIRGO, CELIAS, SWAN, Planned Activities: VIRGO, CELIAS, NOM HGA Upcoming Operations: None Ground Anomalies: 216/0133 1.6 Min TM/CMD dropout. D16. Antenna shifted off-point. TM is nonrecoverable. SOLAR STATUS ------------ SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST: SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AT LOW LEVELS WITH A TREND TOWARD INCREASING ACTIVITY. LIMB PROXIMITY PREVENTS ACCURATE MAGNETIC ANALYSIS OF NEW REGION 9114, BUT CONTINUED C-CLASS ACTIVITY APPEARS LIKELY. NEW REGION 9113 IS ALSO EXPECTED TO PRODUCE C-CLASS EVENTS. THE RETURN OF OLD REGION 9077 ON THE NE LIMB IS EXPECTED NEXT PERIOD; HOWEVER, IT APPEARS CONSIDERABLY SMALLER AND LESS COMPLEX THAN LAST ROTATION. GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY FORECAST: THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD IS EXPECTED TO BE AT QUIET TO UNSETTLED LEVELS. ISOLATED ACTIVE PERIODS ARE LIKELY AT HIGH LATITUDES DURING LOCAL NIGHTTIME HOURS. 08/02 DOY 215 - 08/03 DOY 216 UVCS observed a CME from 18:54-20:20 UT yesterday at 50 degrees and 2.3 Rsun. EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20000803.html INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. Today - polarity reversal study, sunspot oscillations and GIS spectral atlas. Friday - polarity reversal study and a 6-hour Oslo sunspot study on the sunspot that is leaving the MDI high res field-of-view. UVCS: Nominal. 24-hour synoptics. LASCO: Nominal. C2 and C3 synoptics. EIT: Nominal. 195 Angstrom CME watch and synoptics. MDI: Nominal. Full disk magnetograms and dopplergrams. TRACE: Nominal. TRACE will continue filament studies in collaboration with Sara Martin of Helio Research, with a brief pause for engineering in the morning during the SAA orbits.