SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Tuesday, 14 Sept. 1999 Chaired by: J. Hollis (SOC) Notes by: (EIT) DOY: 257 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- Time for Friday's SPWG in EAF is 1:30 p.m. Morning planning meeting will be at the usual 10 a.m. followed immediately by the weekly meeting. FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: VIRGO, New tracking star (4.95 mag) Planned Activities: VIRGO, SWAN, CELIAS, RSL, Swap guide star (4.95 mag) Upcoming Operations: MDI Quasi-Continuous (10-20 Sep) Ground Anomalies: None SOLAR STATUS ------------ SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST: SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE LOW. SEVERAL EXISTING REGIONS HAVE C-CLASS FLARE POTENTIAL WITH A SMALL CHANCE OF AN ISOLATED M-CLASS EVENT. GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY FORECAST: THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AT UNSETTLED TO MINOR STORM LEVELS WITH THE MOST DISTURBED CONDITIONS EXPECTED DURING LOCAL NIGHTTIME HOURS. Monday: Two simultaneous events from AR 8690 and 8693. Ejection of material in EIT but no CME in LASCO. Tuesday: Nice event this morning on the NW limb. CME and eruption of filaments. Minor C class flares from AR 8690 and 8693. INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS Nominal. Three sunspot studies plus JOP109. Tomorrow, sunspot study, ICAL001 and regular monitoring. UVCS Nominal. Observations of the east streamer structure at 4 and 5 solar radii. Position angle of 70 degrees. LASCO Nominal. Regular C2 and C3 synoptics and some short exposures for Mercury. EIT CME watch and ICAL001. MDI Full disk magnetograms and dopplergrams.