SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday, 24 February 2000 Chaired by: J. Hollis (SOC) Notes by: Rai Wu (UVCS) DOY: 055 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * SPWG tomorrow at 2 p.m. in EAF. FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: VIRGO Acquired new tracking star, mag = 6.7 Executed OCD #1346: CEPAC Return to Normal Observations Planned Activities: VIRGO, CELIAS, Nom. HGA Table Execute OCD #1347 - Reload Software 2.24 for ERNE Upcoming Operations: 3/1 CDMU Memory Dumps 3/6-3/10 ACU PATCH UPLINKS AND COMMISSIONING Ground Anomalies: 0856 CPA failure at D66 caused an 11 minute delay in commanding activities. SOLAR STATUS ------------ SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST: SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE PREDOMINANTLY LOW, WITH ISOLATED M-CLASS FLARES POSSIBLE. SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE ON THE RISE BY THE END OF THE PERIOD. IMAGERY FROM THE YOHKOH SOFT X-RAY TELESCOPE SUGGESTS AT LEAST TWO LARGE ACTIVE REGIONS WILL SOON BE ROTATING ONTO THE DISK. GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY FORECAST: THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD IS EXPECTED TO BE UNSETTLED TO ACTIVE IN THE MIDDLE LATITUDES AND UNSETTLED TO MINOR STORM IN THE HIGHER LATITUDES FOR THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF THE FORECAST PERIOD DUE TO THE EFFECTS OF A RECURRENT CORONAL HOLE STREAM. ON THE THIRD DAY ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH. 02/23 DOY 054 - 02/24 DOY 055 EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20000224.html INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. Today Sunspot Oscillations and Oslo sunspot raster study of AR 8879. Engineering, and GIS Spectral Atlas. Tomorrow Polarity Reversal study at North and South poles. UVCS: Nominal. Today mirror scan at +58 degrees with mapping of extended Corona from 3.6 to 4.2 Rsun. for 9 hours, then a further scan from 4.4 to 5.5 Rsun for 15 hours in lieu of the Synoptic. 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 Magnetograms and Dopplergrams. High resolution FOV Saturday through Monday to study AR 8883. TRACE: Nominal. Emerging flux study west of AR 8882 today and tomorrow.