SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday, 08 February 2001 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * See information in "AOB" section below about the new CDS web site. FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: VIRGO, New tracking Star(6.6), VIRGO, SWAN, TTVC4_MMMH_REC_01038 Planned Activities: NOM HGA, VIRGO, Offpointing activities Upcoming Operations: 2/22 Maneuver Operations Ground Anomalies: 1550 28 Min commanding delay. D27. Bad CPA causing low S/C AGCs SOLAR STATUS ------------ EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20010208.html LASCO daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/observations/2001/obs20010208 INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. Today - Offpoint calibration studies - idle during the offpoint. CDS plans a full disk mosaic following the offpoint from 04:28 to 18:10 UT Friday. Later on Friday CDS will test a new active region program on AR9339, coordinated with MDI's line profile study. UVCS: Nominal. Caught comet SOHO-294 yesterday - images are available at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~muzzo/COMET/Comet010207.gif Today UVCS will ramp down detectors and conduct a test of their sun sensor safing loop during the offpoint. After SOHO returns to normal pointing the FOT enables the offpoint flags, UVCS will return to normal operations and do a short synoptic. Friday UVCS will begin a 10-day study of the low latitude coronal hole in the West. LASCO: Nominal. LASCO C2 and C3 doors will be closed during the offpoint, and some calibrations will be performed after the maneuver. An interruption in normal operations of about 8 hours is expected. EIT: Nominal. Today lamp calibrations went well at 10:30 UT, with synoptics and CME watch in the gap prior to the offpoint maneuver. Some calibrations after the offpoint as well, before returning to synoptics and CME watch. MDI: Nominal. Will take 5 minutes of dark images just before the offpoint, then cycle through nominal focus/full disk best focus/out-of-focus every 3 minutes through the offpoint. Friday - line profiles in high res mode on AR9339. TRACE: Nominal. Flarewatch on AR 9334/5 until the end of the MDI HiRes campaign, then a test run of next week's umbral flash program, some engineering (WL flat field, PZT cals), and a 2nd try to get full disk mosaics in 171 & 195 close in time to the EIT 0700 UT synoptic set. The rest of the day is spent following the same AR complex with a full FOV; 171/1600/WL are taken until 15:40, then UV/WL only. AOB -- CDS/SOHO WEB SITE -------------------------- The CDS team has launched a new web site, which went online on February 7. Gone is the dark blue background and yellow text to be replaced with crisp black on white text and improved menu bars for ease of navigation. If you have the CDS site bookmarked as http://solg2.bnsc.rl.ac.uk then you should be able to go straight to the new site. However if you have book marked pages inside the old site they will still work, but over the next few weeks will be withdrawn. The old pages are NOT being maintained Some new features are: Quicklinks available from the front page (e.g. for the Request Diary). CDS Online Users Guide. Updated Gallery displays and publication information. Now that it is online we shall quickly add further new features. For example: ATLAS: It will have up and down buttons against the images, to avoid having to return to the index. POINTINGS: Users will be able to select a day and have the pointings and AR numbers displayed. ABSTRACTS: Short abstracts from the latest papers or work in hand including an image &/or movie or two. TALKS: Power point presentations given by the CDS team will be browsable and downloadable. Please use the site and pass any comments to the CDS team.