7 January 1995
                                                       Serge Savy
                                                     
                                                      
                SXT CHIEF OBSERVER REPORT AND TABLE PLAN

SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT for Weeks 52 and 01:   25-DEC-95 to 7-JAN-96

 
SOLAR ACTIVITY

The Sun was quiet during most of the last two weeks with no major flares.
On 3 January the base level of activity increased leading to many
B-class flares and one C1 flare at 17:10 3-Jan-96 UT.  

SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

An SXT bitmap error was found on 26 December 17:36 UT, and recovered during
the same pass.  SXT continues to function normally. 

CAMPAIGNS

No formal campaigns happened.
  
SEMINARS

No seminars in the last two weeks.




                       SXT TABLE PLAN FOR WEEK 02
                        (8-JAN-96 to 15-Jan-96)

This week we plan to coordinate observations with the Flare Genesis Balloon
that was launched on 7-January.  Standard ARS1 tables are scheduled for
this purpose as we anticipate that the brightest active regions will
probably be the targets of the balloon observations. 

The standard FFI diffuser images (both low8 and compressed) will be taken
on Tuesday as part of a standard table.  The dark calibration table will
run over Thursday night.  On Friday we will return to the standard table. 

This week we continue with the terminator program, but no new OG's need to
be prepared.

The provisional SXT Table Plan for the week is as follows:

    KSC Time (start) in JST     Pass          Table ID        
_____________(= UT + 9 hrs)______#_______________________________
 
Monday       9-JAN-96 01:35      3      960108 P3 ARS1 STD+LONG
Tuesday      9-JAN-96 22:29      2      960109 P2 ARS1 STD+DIFFU     
Wednesday   10-JAN-96 22:48      2      960110 P2 ARS1 STD+LONG
Thursday    11-JAN-96 21:24      2      960111 P2 ARS1 DKCAL
Friday      12-JAN-96 23:26      1      960112 P1 ARS1 STD+LONG
Saturday    13-JAN-96 03:14      3      960113 P3 ARS1 STD+LONG 

*** Please note that this table plan may change ***

Dumping Patrol images:
   We request that KSC tohban continue to dump a patrol image each
time an SXT table is loaded to facilitate the study of optimizing
ARS parameters for an awfully quiet period.

  SSOC TOHBAN, please fax the preliminary OP list to D-tou when it
contains a terminator so that the Chief Observer can suggest which OG's to
use.