SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for 27 July 1999 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- Updated Mercury transit plot can be seen at: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/soho/mercury/transit_1999.gif FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: VIRGO, SWAN, New tracking star (7.5 mag) Planned Activities: VIRGO, RSL, New tracking star (6.4 mag) Ground Anomalies: 208/0559 - Degraded TM between D61 and GSFC Comm (5 min, recoverable) SOLAR STATUS ------------ See EIT activity page: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form19990727.html See EIT "Prominence of the Week" 304 image at: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/eit_19990727_0119_304.jpg SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST: SOLAR ACTIVITY IS FORECAST TO BE LOW TO MODERATE. BOTH REGIONS 8636 AND 8645 ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING OCCASIONAL M-CLASS EVENTS. REGION 8636 COULD PRODUCE AN ISOLATED X-CLASS EVENT BUT THAT LIKELIHOOD IS DECREASING AS THE REGION SLOWLY DECAYS. INSTRUMENT REPORTS ------------------ CDS Nominal. Will follow the sunspot in MDI's high resolution field today. Flat fielding tomorrow. UVCS Nominal. CME watch with NEAR today. LASCO Nominal. Continuing C2/C3 synoptics. EIT Nominal. CME watch. MDI Observing sunspot in high resolution field. TRACE Will observe small sunspot in MDI's high resolution field all today. Also will observe the emerging flux to the East of it. Tomorrow will target NE corner of MDI high resolution field.