SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday 13 March 2003
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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* As part of the Sun-Earth Day on March 18 we have managed to get
a copy of the IMAX film SOLARMAX (www.solarmovie.com) to the
Baltimore Science Museum. The film will be shown for students
at 10.00 AM, for the public at 2 PM. A special show for us has
been scheduled at 6 PM, at a reduced price of 5 USD per person.
Please contact Paal Brekke (pbrekke@esa.nascom.nasa.gov, 301 286 6983)
as soon as possible for details & sign-up.
* Current RHESSI default target is AR10306
* BONUS Solar Science Seminar: Tuesday, March 18 at 3:30 in EAF,
Bob Leamon (Montana State) will talk about "Helicity of Magnetic
Clouds and Their Progenitor Active Regions."
* Commanding times for next week:
Monday - DSS-66 15-18 UT, gap then DSS-27 at 20:35 UT
Tuesday - Gap 13:35-18:05, then cmdg after 19:15 on DSS-27
Wednesday - Gap until 15:20, cmdg rest of day on DSS-27
Thursday - Cmd on DSS-66 15-17:40 UT, gap, then 19:20-01:40 UT
on DSS-27
Friday - Gap until 15:50, cmdg rest of day on DSS-16
Saturday - One hour at 15 UT, then DSS-27 rest of day
Sunday - DSS-54 before and DSS-16 after 18:10-19:20 UT gap
FOT REPORT
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Spacecraft Status: Nominal
Spacecraft Anomalies: None
Accomplished Activities: VIRGO
Planned Activities: VIRGO, NOM HGA Table, New tracking star (6.5 mag)
Upcoming Operations: None
Ground Anomalies:
071/1226 - Wayward command at D54 (1 min delay in activities)
071/2110 - Unable to lock RCVR1 on D16 pass (59 mins commanding lost;
250 mins ranging data lost)
071/2110 - MDI VC3 data not forwarded to CDR (6 mins, covered by D27)
Other: 26 meter automation testing on Tuesday was successful. The
equipment is now being used operationally for SOHO, starting
with the D16 pass yesterday.
SOLAR STATUS
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03/12 DOY 071 - 03/13 DOY 072
EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations:
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20030313.html
LASCO daily On-Line Solar Status and observations:
http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/observations/Todays_obs.html
Web Page for Planning:
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/arm
MDI hi res observations of AR10306:
http://mdisas.nascom.nasa.gov/gif_health/last9_sci160k.gif
INSTRUMENT STATUS
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CDS: Nominal. JOP162. Tomorrow: JOP162.
UVCS: Nominal. Coronal hole observations and synoptics.
LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics.
EIT: Nominal. 195 CME watch and synoptics.
MDI: Nominal. Today and tomorrow: JOP162 support in high res mode.
TRACE: Nominal. JOP162. Tomorrow: JOP162.