SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday 11 December 2003


ANNOUNCEMENTS
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* The current RHESSI default target is AR10517. When selecting this target 
  to maximize coordination w/others, use campaign number 6850.

* The ten-day HGA improvement operations schedule continues the same as 
  before: no NRT during the times 4-6 UT, 12-14 UT and 20-22 UT by default.
  Times may be shifted when DSN is not available. Times for today are: 
  7-8 UT, 14-16 UT (incl. SVM). HGA testing is scheduled for 19 UT today.

* UVCS star observations this afternoon after the antenna test.

* EIT Shutterless on Sunday morning. A student ECS operator will be
  in the office until noon on Sunday instead of the usual hours.

* Sunday 14 December from 8am-9am local time, all Goddard Connect
  dial up services will be unavailable due to hardware upgrades.

* SOHO Holiday Party will be on Monday, December 15 in the Bldg 3
  conference room at 11:30am. There will be a sign-up sheet in
  the EOF and the FOT offices.

* Commanding times for next week: DSS-27 every day but Tuesday and Friday.  
                            Continuous contact all day Monday after 06:40 UT,
                            gaps during commanding hours on all other days.

  Monday -    Continuous contact after 06:40 UT.
  Tuesday -   Gap 09:45-14:05 UT and 18:20-19:00 UT.
  Wednesday - Gap 15:00-19:20 UT
  Thursday -  Gap 11:30-14:10 UT.
  Friday -    Gap 11:10-14:25 UT and 18:10-19:00 UT.
  Saturday -  Gap 11:40-14:20 UT.
  Sunday -    Gap 13:40-14:40 UT.


FOT REPORT
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Spacecraft Status: Nominal

Spacecraft Anomalies: 
345/0804  Tracking star exited SSU field of view.  Star released earlier 
          than expected.  No impacts.

Accomplished Activities: APME Z-Axis Improvement Operations

Planned Activities: Nominal HGA Table, New tracking star, mag = 7.1
                    New tracking star, mag = 7.5
                    APME Z-Axis Improvement Operations
                    APME Single Winding Test Scheduled for ~1900

Upcoming Operations: None

Ground Anomalies: 
344/1940        AOS from D27 was 7 minutes late due a problem with 
                their azimuth drive torque bias.
344/2330        SH5WS2 and SH5XT2 terminals hung, cause unknown.  
                Problem occurred during a non-contact period so 
                there were no operational impacts.

Other: None





SOLAR STATUS
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12/10 DOY 344 - 12/11 DOY 345

 EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations:
    http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20031211.html

 LASCO daily On-Line Solar Status and observations:
   http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/observations/Todays_obs.html

 Web Page for Planning: http://www.bbso.njit.edu/arm
 
 Magnetic Maps and Heliospheric Forecasts: http://www.lmsal.com/forecast/


INSTRUMENT STATUS 
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CDS:    Nominal. Loop variability study, CME onset study.
        Tomorrow: temperature and density structure of the quiet solar 
        corona (SW limb), explosive event monitor (coronal hole).

UVCS:   Nominal. Streamer study and synoptics. Star observations today
	and tomorrow.  

LASCO:  Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics, JOP159.

EIT:    Nominal. 195 CME watch and synoptics, JOP159.

MDI:    Nominal. Full disk magnetograms and dopplergrams.  
	
TRACE:  Nominal. Observing AR10517.