WEEKLY MEETING MINUTES Week 43, October 18-24, 2004 1. Announcements ---------------- * The public lobby of Bldg. 9 (the Main Gate) will be undergoing renovation from Monday, Sept. 20 - Sunday, Oct. 17 (though it may go longer than Sunday. All temporary badging activities will be relocated to Bldg. 88, Visitor's Center. All security services on the first floor of Bldg. 9 must be accessed via the outside entrance on the northwest end of the building (closest to Bldg. 8, adjacent to the location where special vehicle inspections occur at the Main Gate). * Work in the SDAC that could require shutting down systems will probably occur next Tuesday, October 19. The impact could include loss of access to the soho archive filer (including the planning directories) and the SolarSoft tree. The date is to be confirmed the day before. 2. Operations Constraints ------------------------- * Commanding times for next week: Monday - Gap from 15:30-19:40 UT. Tuesday - Commanding is good all day. 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. * Interference from the MSG satellite is expected on Madrid passes at shifting times around 10:50 UT, for a few minutes each time, spacecraft will be time tagged to be in record for relevant times. Recordings will only be dumped if needed. 3. Coordinated Observations --------------------------- M Oct 18 (W43) T Oct 19 W Oct 20 T Oct 21 F Oct 22 S Oct 23 S Oct 24 Other activities for Week 43: * Oct 5-19 JOP178 Filament and its Environment (#7083), CDS/MDI/EIT/TRACE/THEMIS/SST/DOT/DST/Meudon/Pic du Midi/ Bialkov/Ondrejov/Sac Peak/SOLIS/ISOON, POC: Brigitte Schmieder (Brigitte.Schmieder@obspm.fr) & Thierry Roudier (roudier@bigorre.bagn.obs-mip.fr) * Oct 16-22 UVCS Observations of Coronal Streamers Above 2.5 Solar Radii * Oct 17-19 JOP157 Bright Points in ARs (#7091), CDS/MDI/EIT/TRACE/THEMIS/SST/DOT/DST/Meudon/ Pic du Midi/Bialkov/Ondrejov/Sac Peak/SOLIS/ISOON, POC: Brigitte Schmieder (Brigitte.Schmieder@obspm.fr) * Oct 18-23 JOP179 Energy Propagation in XBPs (#7087), CDS/EIT/MDI/Hida, POC: Tetsuya Watanabe (WATANABE@uvlab.mtk.nao.ac.jp) * Oct 20-Nov 1 Dynamics of the Lower Chromosphere (#7088), MDI/TRACE/La Palma, POC: Mats Carlsson (mats.carlsson@astro.uio.no) * Oct 23-30 UVCS Observations of North Polar Coronal Hole * Oct 24-27 Dynamics of Off-limb Polar Coronal Holes (#7089), 21-7 UT, CDS/UVCS/Norikura, POC: Dipankar Banerjee (dipu@iiap.res.in) Submodes: Submode 6 Planners for Week 43: CDS -- Peter Young/Jim Lang MDI -- Sarah Gregory EIT -- Jack Ireland SUMER -- not observing LASCO -- Ops Team UVCS -- John Kohl/Steve Cranmer TRACE -- Karel Schrijver Relevant Notes -------------- CDS: JOP178 & JOP157 through Tuesday. JOP179 through Saturday. Polar coronal hole study begins Sunday. Off-limb coronal study running all week. UVCS: Streamer observations and synoptics through Saturday then polar coronal hole study and synoptics. LASCO: C2/C3 synoptics, JOP159 Wednesday - Friday. EIT: Supporting JOP178 & JOP157 through Tuesday with 304 CME watch from 7-19 UT then 195 CME watch and synoptics. JOP159 Wednesday - Friday, JOP179. MDI: Supporting JOP178 & JOP157 through Tuesday with full disk or high resolution observations, La Palma coordination, supporting JOP179. TRACE: Supporting JOP178 & JOP157 through Tuesday, La Palma coordination.