TUESDAY 23 Dec 1997 SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes

Chaired by: L. Allen (SOC)/ Barbara Thompson (SOL/EIT) 
Notes: K. Schenk (EIT)

FOT Briefing
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Spacecraft Status: Nominal
Spacecraft Anomalies: 
357/0001 - TM Subformat 5 inadvertently commanded
           Switched to SM #5 at 00:01 UT
           Switched to SM #2 at 00:06 UT
           Switched to SM #6 at 02:24 UT (LASCO cannot recover in SM #2)
           Switched to SM #2 at 04:21 UT

Accomplished Activities: RSL, VIRGO, TM Subformat 2
Planned Activities: RSL, VIRGO, SWAN, Acquire new guide star (3.1 mag, slot 1)

Ground Anomalies: 
356/1441 - TM Dropout; D27 power hit (1 min, unrecoverable)
356/1535 - Degraded TM; Cause unknown (6 min, recoverable)
356/1552 - Lost MDI-H time; High winds at D27, antenna stowed (60 min)
356/2045 - D46 xmtr red; NRT time lost (173 min)
357/0146 - Resweeps required for ranging at D46 (11 min delay)

	
SOLAR STATUS
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Galaxy is in LASCO C3 field of view.
18:33 UT 12/22/97 Small Filament eruption from the NW limb.  This large 
filament channel wrapping around the North Polar Crown is now stable and
quiet.  Large expanding loops from AR 8124 in SE.


INSTRUMENT STATUS
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CDS:	Nominal. Yesterday: North coronal hole observations in GIS until 
        midnight tonight.  Reduced synoptics program continues with low
        telemetry rate. 

SUMER:	Door closed, not observing.

UVCS:	Nominal. Yesterday: Solar wind studies observed S pole at 4.2R.
	Today: Starting 12 day global sun study and synoptics.
	Polar angle scans at 1.5R-4.3R at 285 degrees.

LASCO:	Now Nominal.  Submode switch last night caused LASCO reboot
        Submode #2 galatic map high cadence campaign started
	at 14:23 UT and will continue until Jan 2, 1998

EIT: 	Now Nominal. 195 full field full resolution images at 10 min
        cadence in Submode 2.  Daily synoptic full field sets taken once 
        a day only and will continue till Jan 2, 1998.

MDI:	Nominal. Mag movies campaign  (full disk and high 
	resolution alternating every 5 mins) for the next 2 weeks.