SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Friday, 14 July 2000 FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: NOM HGA, VIRGO, SWAN, New Tracking Star Planned Activities: RSL, VIRGO, CELIAS, New Tracking Star Upcoming Operations: 7/18 Momentum Management and Stationkeeping Maneuver Ground Anomalies: 195/0003 Wayward command. D24. 6 CMDs retransmitted. 8 minute CMD delay SOLAR STATUS ------------ There was an X5.7 flare from AR 9077 near central meridian today, with peak soft X-ray emission at ~ 10:24 UT. Connected with this event there is a clear EIT wave and a halo CME. INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Due to the flare, CDS turned off their NIS high voltage. They will monitor the "proton blizzard" and resume operations when it is over. Tentative plans for the weekend are (sun allowing !): - Friday - Synoptic, NIS MCP Monitoring, CME Watch on AR9070 (07:34-21:42 UT), and GIS MCP Monitoring - Saturday - Synoptic, Sunspot Oscillations (7-17:30 UT) and Off limb corona (North) from 18:35 to 23:50 UT, - Sunday - Synoptic, Off-limb corona (South) from 06:46-11:50 UT Energetic Events from 12:10 to 23:05 UT UVCS: UVCS ramped down detectors this morning after seeing unusually high counts in their OVI detector at ~ 10:45 UT. They'll investigate and wait until the "proton blizzard" is over before resuming operations. LASCO: Nominal. C2 and C3 synoptics, keeping an eye on the images. Their images are saturated with particle hits and the compression is not effective, therefore may have to command later for buffer maintenance. EIT: Nominal. See the movies on the Web, they are impressive. 195 Angstrom CME watch and synoptics. MDI: Nominal. Finished tuning load last night and went into high resolution mode -- so they caught the flare (!) Saturday morning they will switch to full disk mode. TRACE: Nominal. TRACE will continue to follow AR 9077 throughout the weekend and into Monday.