SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Friday, 18 May 2001 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * SPWG Friday, May 25 at 2 p.m. in EAF. Be sure to get calendar updates to SOCs soon. * There will be no daily meetings in the EOF during MEDOC. Minutes with relevant information (FOT report, commanding issues, MEDOC minutes etc) will be sent out at approximately 10am local. FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: VIRGO, CELIAS, SWAN, TT VC2 load (for D45 pass), NOM HGA Table Planned Activities: VIRGO, Guide star swap (5.9 mag, slot 1), RSL Upcoming Operations: None Ground Anomalies: 137/0910 - Degraded TM from D66; Reason unknown (424 minutes, recoverable) SOLAR STATUS ------------ 05/17 DOY 137 - 05/18 DOY 138 EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20010518.html LASCO daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/observations/2001/obs20010518.html INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. See MEDOC report. SUMER: Nominal. See MEDOC report. UVCS: Nominal. JOP139 and synoptic. LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics and JOP139 support. EIT: Nominal. Half res 195 CME watch and synoptics. MDI: Nominal. Full disk/high res doppler campaign for continuous contact. TRACE: Nominal. JOP131 support. Observing the prominence with SUMER, then switch to AR 9461. MEDOC Daily minutes - Friday, May 18th ----------------------------------------- Announcements: ------------------- Welcome to Helen Mason and Dave Pike from RAL (UK). Dave is the CDS planner for next week, and Helen is the leader of the CDS study 'AR diagnostics'. Comments: -------------- No NRT to send the commands for Tuesday 22 ! Commands for Tuesday morning will be sent on Friday 18. Past Observations (Thursday 17): --------------------------------------- "Oslo loops" : nice observations with CDS. JOP131/107: OK with SUMER and CDS. Nice spectra with THEMIS at SUMER slit position. Nothing from Pic du Midi: bad weather. JOP124: OK with SUMER Tests made on GOLF show no aging of the filters and detector. Today (Friday 18): ---------------------- JOP131/107 THEMIS and CDS on filaments near disk center. TARGET: (x=860", y=-490") TARGET: (x=140", y=-110") TARGET: (x=-305", y=-395") SUMER still at west limb (one more at 15:00 - 17:00 UT) TARGET: (x=860", y=-490") JOP124 TARGET: (x=860", y=-490") with SUMER. TARGET: (x=113", y=265") with CDS. Sunspot oscillations study (A. Fludra) TARGET: (x=240", y=244") Plans for Saturday 19: ----------------------- SUMER 22:00 - 6:00 UT Full sun scattered profiles (P. Lemaire) TARGET: (x=860", y=-1700") 10:00 - 12:00 UT JOP131/107 (B. Schmieder, P. Heinzel) with CDS/MDI/TRACE/THEMIS/EIT/VTT/Yohkoh/GBOs TARGET: (x=860", y=170") 16:00 - 0:00 UT Full sun scattered profiles (P. Lemaire) TARGET: (x=860", y=-1700") CDS 0:00 UT - 7:00 UT : Synoptics 8:00 UT - 17:30 UT : JOP 124 (X=198",Y=290") 18:00 UT - 24:00 UT : Off Limb Spectral Study (part1:North) : N1(X=110",Y=1050"), N2 (X=-110",Y=1050"), N3(X=0",Y=870") Plans for Sunday 20: ----------------------- SUMER 0:00 - 7:30 UT Full sun scattered profiles (P. Lemaire) TARGET: (x=860", y=-1700") 13:00 - 5:00 UT Full sun scattered profiles (P. Lemaire) TARGET: (x=860", y=-1700") CDS 0:00 UT - 7:00 UT : Synoptics 8:00 UT - 17:30 UT : Off Limb Spectral Study (part1:South) : S1(X=110",Y=-1050"), S2 (X=-110",Y=-1050"), S3(X=0",Y=-870") 18:00 UT - 24:00 UT : CME Onset Event : (X=810",Y=177") Plans for Monday 21 : -------------------------- SUMER 10:00 - TBD UT Ref Spec on AR edge TARGET: (x=860", y=270") CDS 0:00 - 6:30 UT Synoptics 6:40 - 10:40 UT Cambridge AR watch (H. Mason) TARGET: (x=860", y=270") 10:40 - 11:40 UT NIS spectral monitor TARGET: (x=860", y=270") 11:40 - 13:00 UT UT Cambridge AR watch (H. Mason) TARGET: (x=860", y=270") 13:30 - 20 :10 UT JOP 139 Flare Helium Abundance (#6750) ULYSSES/CDS/LASCO/UVCS/Yohkoh-SXT/Sac Peak, POC: Giannina Poletto at MEDOC (giannina.poletto@medoc-ias.u-psud.fr) TARGET TBD 20:30 - 22:45 UT NIS spectral monitor 22:45 - 23:40 UT Engineering Plans for Tuesday 22: ---------------------- SUMER TBD - TBD UT OVI off-limb spectra CDS 0:00 - 06:30 UT Synoptic Meridian Images 6:40 - 12:00 UT Cambridge AR watch (H. Mason) TARGET: (x=950", y=270") 12:00 - 13:10 UT NIS spectral monitor TARGET: (x=950", y=270") 13:30 - 19:30 UT JOP 139 Flare Helium Abundance (#6750) ULYSSES/CDS/LASCO/UVCS/Yohkoh-SXT/Sac Peak, POC: Giannina Poletto at MEDOC (giannina.poletto@medoc-ias.u-psud.fr) TARGET TBD 19:40 - 23:35 UT Oslo Active Region Loops TARGET: (x= 960", y=270")