SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday, 21 Oct. 1999 Chaired by: J. Hollis (SOC) Notes by: (UVCS) DOY: 294 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * Reminder: Daily meeting at 9:00 am again tomorrow, followed by weekly. * Update on Sunday's power outages: Expect 5-minute outages just until noon on Sunday. This will impact only equipment that is plugged into wall sockets. If you have equipment relying on UPS power backup from batteries that is plugged into the wall, it is recommended that you test it now to be sure the backup power takes over as needed. * KEYCARDS: If you have a keycard to return, please return it to the place where you signed it out. FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None. Accomplished Activities: VIRGO, TR Maintenance ECS Y2K testing from 1200 to 1800 UTC. Planned Activities: VIRGO, HGA Upcoming Operations: ECS Y2K testing Friday (10/22) from 1200 to 1800 UTC. Ground Anomalies: 293/2357 SRA failure at D16. 54 seconds lost TM, recoverable. SOLAR STATUS ------------ SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST (Updated 22 UT, Oct. 20): SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE LOW TO MODERATE. REGIONS 8731 AND 8732 ARE IN DECAY BUT POSSESS POTENTIAL FOR AN ISOLATED M-CLASS EVENT. GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY FORECAST: THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN QUIET TO UNSETTLED FOR DAYS ONE AND TWO. ACTIVE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITH THE RETURN OF A GEOEFFECTIVE CORONAL HOLE BY DAY THREE. LASCO: Faint CME with loop-like structure at NW limb at 00:00 UT. Jet-like CME from SE limb at 05:06 UT and again at 10:06 UT. EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form19991021.html Instrument Status: ------------------ CDS: Nominal. Flare Interrupt study. support JOP113 on AR8737 SUMER: Nominal. Active region study today & tomorrow at the NW limb region. UVCS: Nominal. Slow wind source region study today and tomorrow at the NW limb region. LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics and C1 testing EIT: Nominal. 195 CME watch MDI: Nominal. Full disk magnetograms and dopplergrams to support JOP113. TRACE: Nominal. Campaign with Yohkoh SXT on AR8731 and AR8732.