SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Monday, 17 April 2000 Chaired by: J. Hollis (SOC) Notes by: E. Zamkoff (MDI) DOY: 108 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * Engineering Colloquium on Monday, April 17 at 3:30 p.m., Bldg. 3 auditorium, John Kappenman, MetaTech Corp. will speak on "Impacts of Solar Storms on the North American Power Grid" FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: 105: VIRGO, RSL, FOT time-tag load TTMH_TOREC_00105 for D/L only activites on D65 support on DOY 107 106: VIRGO 107: VIRGO, Noncoho load, FSM Planned Activities: VIRGO, SWAN Acquire new tracking star, mag = 6.5 Upcoming Operations: CEPAC Software Upload on DOY 109 (exact time TBD) Ground Anomalies: 106/1600 Invalid clock correlation output due to a faulty time code translator in D66's TGC. No impact. SOLAR STATUS ------------ SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST: SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE LOW TO MODERATE. ISOLATED M-CLASS EVENTS ARE STILL POSSIBLE FROM REGION 8955. GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY FORECAST: THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD SHOULD REMAIN PREDOMINANTLY UNSETTLED TO ACTIVE WITH OCCASIONAL MINOR STORMING AT HIGH LATITUDES. ACTIVE CONDITIONS MAY BE PROLONGED THROUGH DAYS TWO AND THREE BY THE ARRIVAL OF A DISTURBANCE FROM THE M4/CME EVENT ON 15/1018UT. 04/14 DOY 105 - 04/17 DOY 108 EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20000417.html LASCO daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/observations/2000/obs20000417.html INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. JOP 83, polarity reversal studies at the north pole, engineering. UVCS: Nominal. Ran the new 24-hour synoptic on Friday. Saturday through Tuesday doing CME watch at 250 degrees. LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics. EIT: Nominal. JOP 83 support, 195 CME watch. MDI: Nominal. Supporting JOP 83 with full disk magnetograms and dopplergrams. TRACE: Nominal. JOP 83 and AR studies on AR 8954 today and tomorrow.