WEEKLY MEETING MINUTES Week 35, August 27-September 2, 2001 1. Announcements ---------------- * Router upgrade on the FOT ops strings is scheduled for August 27 at 11:30 UT, ~14:30 UT, and ~17 UT, each for about half an hour. Commanding will not be available during those times but there will be no impact to telemetry. The backup day would be Aug 29. * Normal Center telephone services (286 exchanges) will be completely unavailable from 6:00 pm on Friday, August 31, 2001, through 11:59 pm on Monday, September 3, 2001. Our building will be one of the first to be brought back up, so by midnight on Friday we should have working phones again and can receive and make outside calls. If you have an instrument emergency during that weekend and cannot reach the SOHO FOT, contact the SOC at home (Joan: 410-531-3360, Emily: 410-451-1402, Stein: 410-997-8102) and the SOC will call the FOT OE's. Visitors will not be allowed on base that weekend. All local SOHO people have been put on a list of people who are allowed to come to Goddard that weekend or Monday. 2. Operations Constraints ------------------------- * Change to Submode 6 on Friday, August 31 at 15 UT. * Commanding schedule for the week Monday - Command before 18:30 UT or on DSS27. Tuesday - Command after 15:30 UT. Wednesday - Commanding is good all day. Thursday - Commanding is good all day. Friday - Commanding is good all day. Saturday - Commanding is good all day. Sunday - Commanding is good all day. 3. Coordinated Observations --------------------------- M Aug 27 (W35) Stellar Observations of Alpha Leo and Rho Leo (#6790), UVCS, POC: Larry Gardner & Philippe Lemaire T Aug 28 Stellar Observations of Alpha Leo and Rho Leo (#6790), UVCS, POC: Larry Gardner & Philippe Lemaire W Aug 29 Stellar Observations of Alpha Leo and Rho Leo (#6790), UVCS, POC: Larry Gardner & Philippe Lemaire Streamer/CME Watch (#6800), SUMER/CDS, POC: Philippe Lemaire, Carl Foley T Aug 30 Stellar Observations of Alpha Leo and Rho Leo (#6790), UVCS/SUMER, POC: Larry Gardner & Philippe Lemaire Transition Region Event Study (#6795), SUMER/CDS/TRACE, POC: Philippe Lemaire, Carl Foley F Aug 31 Stellar Observations of Alpha Leo and Rho Leo (#6790), UVCS, POC: Larry Gardner & Philippe Lemaire SUMER closes door at 13 UT SUBMODE switch at 15 UT S Sep 01 Stellar Observations of Alpha Leo and Rho Leo (#6790), UVCS, POC: Larry Gardner & Philippe Lemaire S Sep 02 Other activities for Week 35: * Aug 20-Sep 2 UVCS Polar Streamer and Coronal Mass Ejection Observations * Aug 29-Sep 3 MDI 5 day Continuous Contact * Aug 31-Sep 2 EIT bakeout * Aug 13-Sep 14 LASCO C3 Comets in Colors, POC: Doug Biesecker Targets of Opportunity (TOO): Submodes: Monday 00:00 UT -- Friday 15:00 UT --> Submode 5 Friday 15:00 UT -- Sunday 24:00 UT -- > Submode 6 Planners for Week 35: CDS -- Carl Foley (MSSL) MDI -- Sarah Gregory EIT -- Barbara Thompson SUMER -- Philippe Lemaire LASCO -- Ops Team UVCS -- M. Karovska TRACE -- Amy Winebarger & Dan Seaton (from SAO) Relevant Notes -------------- CDS: AR studies, GIS dumps, streamer observations on Wednesday with SUMER, transition region events study with SUMER and TRACE on Thursday. GIS raw dumps will take precedence whenever NRT is available. SUMER: Star observations, full sun scattered spectra observations, streamer observations on Wednesday with CDS, transition region events study with CDS and TRACE on Thursday. Door closing and submode change on Friday. UVCS: Star observations, polar streamer and coronal mass ejection observations, synoptics. LASCO: C2/C3 synoptics, C3 comets in colors observations. EIT: 195 half resolution CME watch and synoptics until submode switch, then 195 full resolution CME watch. Bakeout over the weekend. MDI: Full disk dopplergrams and magnetograms. Continuous contact begins on Wednesday. TRACE: Continue observing the active region in the southeast in 284A, transition region events study with CDS and SUMER on Thursday.