SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Wednesday, 16 February 2000 Chaired by: J. Hollis (SOC) Notes by: K. Schenk (EIT) DOY: 047 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * SOHO Science Club today (3:30 PM, Building 26, Rm G-10 ) Jack Ireland (SOHO/ESA): "Precision limits to line profile fitting experiments" FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: RSL,VIRGO Planned Activities: VIRGO,SWAN Upcoming Operations: 3/1 CDMU Memory Dumps 3/6-3/10 ACU PATCH UPLINKS AND COMMISSIONING Ground Anomalies: 046/1653 2.5 Minute TM dropout. D16. High rate LAN problem. Recoverable. 047/0325 14 Minute CMD delay. D46. Klystron problem. SOLAR STATUS ------------ SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST: SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST AT THE LOW LEVEL. GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY FORECAST: THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD IS EXPECTED TO BE QUIET TO UNSETTLED FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS. 02/15 DOY 046 - 02/16 DOY 047 EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20000216.html 02/14 DOY 045 LASCO C2 sees large CME eruption over North Pole begining at 15:30 UT. This event developed into a picture perfect event in C3 with the sight of yet another "Smoke Ring Event" in the NW quadrant. For February 3 information on LASCO "Smoke Ring Events" See: http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast03feb_1.htm INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. CME Watch program in South West limb. GIS large area raster pointing at loop system near AR 8870 at central meridian. UVCS: Nominal. Observing at 90 degree from 3.6 to 5.5 Rsun. No synoptics perfomed today. LASCO: Nominal. Observations with C2 and C3 while CME watching. EIT: Nominal. CME Watch, Full resolution 195 Angstrom images at 12-minute cadence. MDI: Nominal. Full disk observations today in support of emerging flux program with TRACE. Full disk magnetograms and cropped dopplergrams. TRACE: Nominal. Emerging flux program West of AR 8870 near central meridian today and tomorrow.