SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday 17 April 2008 (DOY 108) Prepared by: Emily Zamkoff ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * The delayed command load submission system on the ECS computers is still not working. Please submit all loads via email to soc@soc.nascom.nasa.gov. * RHESSI default target, http://solar.physics.montana.edu/hypermail/mmmotd/ HINODE operations, http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/solar/hinode_op/ STEREO operations, http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/plans.shtml * Heliophysics Science Division Seminar on Friday 18 April at noon in Bldg 21, Room 183a by Chin-Chun Wu on "Magnetohydrodynamic simulation of interplanetary coronal mass ejection and its application to space weather prediction of geomagnetic storms" FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: Submode change 5 -> 6, SUMER door closed Planned Activities: HGA, new tracking star Upcoming Operations: Mar 3 to May 4 - MDI Continuous Ops Ground Anomalies: None Nighttime NRT for Today and Tomorrow: During all uplink passes between 0000-1130, with some short pauses. INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. Opacity study. UVCS: Nominal. Supporting JOP 206/203 (#7267) until tomorrow afternoon then switching to physical parameters of coronal holes across the sonic point. LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics & C2 polarizer program with 6 hour cadence, supporting JOP 204 (#7268), JOP 206/203 (#7267), and JOP 194 (#7271). EIT: Nominal. 304 CME watch and synoptics, supporting JOP 204 (#7268) and JOP 194 (#7271). MDI: Nominal. Full disk magnetograms and Dopplergrams for continuous contact. TRACE: Nominal. Following the small active region currently near disk center. Questions, corrections, and updates: soc@soc.nascom.nasa.gov