SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Wednesday, 02 August 2000 Chaired by: J. Hollis (SOC) DOY: 215 FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: RSL, VIRGO, TR Maintenance, CELIAS Planned Activities: VIRGO, CELIAS Upcoming Operations: None Ground Anomalies: None SOLAR STATUS ------------ SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST (UPDATED 01 AUGUST AT 22 UT): SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST AT LOW LEVELS THROUGH DAY TWO, WITH AN ISOLATED CHANCE OF MODERATE FLARES. A GREATER CHANCE OF MODERATE ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED BY DAY THREE. GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY FORECAST: THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD IS EXPECTED TO BE PREDOMINANTLY UNSETTLED TO ACTIVE THROUGH DAY ONE. QUIET TO UNSETTLED CONDITIONS, WITH A POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED ACTIVE PERIODS, ARE EXPECTED FOR DAYS TWO AND THREE. 08/01 DOY 214 - 08/02 DOY 215 EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20000802.html INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. Today CDS will do an 18-hour study above the limb in the SW. Thursday - Polarity reversal study and sunspot study. UVCS: Nominal. Full synoptics on the NE streamer yesterday. Today - either CME watch or prominance study. LASCO: Nominal. C2 and C3 synoptics. EIT: Nominal. 195 Angstrom CME watch and synoptics. MDI: Nominal. Full disk magnetograms and dopplergrams. TRACE: Nominal. Today engineering and calibrations followed by observations of the large prominance coming over the NE limb. If the prominance doesn't lift off, TRACE will continue observing it tomorrow.