SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Monday 18 September 2000 Chaired by: L. Roberts (SOC) Notes by: E. Zamkoff (MDI) DOY: 262 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- There will be a SOHO glasses re-order. See: ftp://eitv3.nascom.nasa.gov/pub/outgoing/soho.glass.reorder FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: 261/2025 CEPAC ESU Data Request Error; recovered autonomously on-board. Accomplished Activities: 259: VIRGO, Noncoho Load, New control star, mag = 4.90 260: VIRGO, SWAN 261: VIRGO, Flight S/W Maint. Planned Activities: VIRGO, CELIAS Upcoming Operations: None Ground Anomalies: 262/0401 VIRGO time-tag commands delayed by real-time commanding of OBT distribution. SOLAR STATUS ------------ NOAA SOLAR ACTIVITY FORCAST (updated Sept 17 at 22:00 UTC): SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST: SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE LOW TO MODERATE. ADDITIONAL C-CLASS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED IN REGIONS 9165, 9166, AND 9167. M-CLASS FLARES ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE REGIONS AS WELL. See EIT activity page: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20000918.html See LASCO activity page: http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/observations/2000/obs20000918.html INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. Followed SUMER pointings for JOP126 and JOP104 over the weekend, and also did a VLA abundance study on Sunday. Will continue with JOP104 and JOP126 with SUMER today and do some engineering. Will also do JOP97 in addition to JOP104 and JOP126 tomorrow. SUMER: Nominal. Did JOP104 over the weekend. Starting Sunday the JOP104 and JOP126 were on AR 9167 and the plan is to continue there. UVCS: Nominal. For tomorrow, doing either instrument characterization studies or synoptics, depending on the weekend data. LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics. EIT: Nominal. CME watch. MDI: Nominal. Did high res field of view observations until Saturday and then switched back to full disk for the rest of the weekend. Tomorrow the support for JOP97 will be with full disk observations. TRACE: Will complete recovery this afternoon and will start observing tomorrow with JOP97 in 171 only.