SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday 13 March 2003 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * 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 ---------- 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 ------------ 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 ----------------- 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.