SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Friday, 16 February 2001
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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* SPWG today at 2 p.m. in EAF.
* Yesterday when reporting that the Goddard SOHO solar science team received
"Laurels 2000" from Aviation Week & Space Technology we neglected to mention
that TRACE s/c science team was also cited for "using the spacecraft's
extraordinary images of solar coronal loops to solve one of the larger
mysteries in space science: why the Sun's upper atmosphere is 1,000 times
hotter than its surface."
FOT REPORT
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Spacecraft Status: Nominal
Spacecraft Anomalies: None
Accomplished Activities: VIRGO, Nom. HGA Table, New tracking star, mag = 7.56
Planned Activities: VIRGO, RSL, New tracking star, mag = 7.67
Upcoming Operations:
2/22 Momentum Management/SK Maneuver
Ground Anomalies:
047/0741 Spurious lock on spacecraft recevier #2. Impacts TBD.
SOLAR STATUS
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02/15 DOY 046 - 02/16 DOY 047
EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations:
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20010216.html
LASCO daily On-Line Solar Status and observations:
http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/observations/2001/obs20010216.html
HESSI test run default target: AR 9348
INSTRUMENT STATUS
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CDS: Nominal. Today - A study on AR 9347, Oslo loops on the limb study on
east limb and quiet sun study with MDI and TRACE. Weekend - usual
weekend studies as well as a CME watch in the north west on Sunday.
UVCS: Nominal. UVCS continues its coronal hole study in the North-West
at 1.7-2.4 Rsun and mini-synoptics. At 17 UT today UVCS will begin an
8-hour star observation with real-time commanding of 38 Aqr in the east
from 9 to 7 Rsun. On the weekend UVCS will resume coronal hole
observations and mini-synoptics.
LASCO: Nominal. C2 and C3 synoptics. LASCO begins high cadence observations
at 22 UT today and continues until early Tuesday.
EIT: Nominal. 195 Angstrom CME watch and synoptics.
MDI: Nominal. Today - Quiet sun study in the bottom half of the high res
field of view in all three variables. At about 19 UT MDI will do
testing of line profile observations on the sunspot in the high res
field for two to three hours. Quiet sun studies are planned for the
weekend.
TRACE: Nominal. Today - Umbral flashes on AR 9347, engineering, flarewatch on
AR 9348 in the NW, then high cadence UV at quiet disk center. For the
weekend, TRACE will continue the quiet sun observations with MDI then make
a continous white light movie.