SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday, 23 August 2001 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * SPWG is on Friday at 2 p.m. in the EAF. Please be sure to get calendar changes to the SOCs as soon as possible. * Commanding schedule for next week: Monday - Command before 18:30 UT or on DSS27. Tuesday - Command after 15:30 UT. Wednesday - Commanding is good all day. Thursday - Commanding is good all day. Friday - Commanding is good all day. Saturday - Commanding is good all day. Sunday - Commanding is good all day. NOTE: No commanding is available from 14-15 UT any day. CAUTION: Commanding on DSS27 is not recommended. * Normal Center telephone services (286 exchanges) will be completely unavailable from 6:00 pm on Friday, August 31, 2001, through 11:59 pm on Monday, September 3, 2001. Our building will be one of the first to be brought back up, so by midnight on Friday we should have working phones again and can receive and make outside calls. If you have an instrument emergency during that weekend and cannot reach the SOHO FOT, contact the SOC at home (Joan: 410-531-3360, Emily: 410-451-1402, Stein: 410-997-8102) and the SOC will call the FOT OE's. Visitors will not be allowed on base that weekend. All local SOHO people have been put on a list of people who are allowed to come to Goddard that weekend or Monday. FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: VIRGO, CELIAS, Acquired new tracking star, mag = 6.7 Planned Activities: VIRGO, CELIAS, Nominal HGA Upcoming Operations: Sept. 4 ACU/CDMU Memory Dumps Ground Anomalies: None SOLAR STATUS ------------ 08/22 DOY 234 - 08/23 DOY 235 EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20010823.html LASCO daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/observations/Todays_obs.html INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. AR study in the southeast, then 16-01 UT GIS dumps. Tomorrow: AR study in southeast until 16 UT. GIS raw dumps will take precedence whenever NRT is available. SUMER: Nominal. Early results from SUMER's star observations show no degredation of sensitivity since the 1999 observations. Alpha Leo observations until 14 UT, followed by full Sun as a Star scattered spectra observations in the north for the rest of Thursday and for Friday. UVCS: Nominal. Polar streamer and CME observations and long synoptic. Tomorrow: star observations. LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics, C3 comets in colors observations. EIT: Nominal. 195 CME watch at half res and synoptics four times a day at full res. MDI: Nominal. Full disk dopplergrams and magnetograms. TRACE: Nominal. Observing the active region in the southeast in 284A.