SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday, 16 Dec. 1999 Chaired by: J. Hollis (SOC) Notes by: R. Wu (UVCS) DOY: 350 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- This is just a reminder that the SOHO Holiday Lunch is Friday, 17 December at Sir Walter Raleigh's. NOTE! - SPWG will be on MONDAY, 20 at 2 p.m. in EAF. FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: VIRGO Planned Activities: VIRGO, HGA, COBS macro maintenance Upcoming Operations: None Ground Anomalies: 349/0342 CPA Failure at D46, delayed commanding 8 minutes. 350/0456 Xmtr tripped off. Lost 4 minutes 11 seconds of data while in MDI-M. Lost ~20 minutes of command time. SOLAR STATUS ------------ SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST: SOLAR ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN GENERALLY LOW. REGION 8798 SHOULD CONTINUE TO PRODUCE C-CLASS EVENTS. THERE IS AN INCREASING POSSIBILITY OF AN M-CLASS EVENT FROM THE 8798/8799 COMPLEX. GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY FORECAST: THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD SHOULD BE QUIET TO UNSETTLED FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS. 12/15 DOY 349 - 12/16 DOY 350 EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form19991216.html LASCO 12/15 DOY 349: ~20:00UT Filament eruption in SE produces CME INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. Flat-Field study, Synoptics. UVCS: Nominal. 27-hour He II Focusing Cone observation, and synoptic. Tomorrow's observations will depend on the outcome of today's. LASCO: Nominal. C2 and C3 synoptics while CME Watching. EIT: Nominal. Full resolution 195A images at 12 minutes. MDI: Nominal. Full disk Magnetograms and Dopplergrams. TRACE: Nominal. On the East Limb until balloon launch.