26  February 1996
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                SXT CHIEF OBSERVER REPORT AND TABLE PLAN

SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT for Week 08:   19-FEB-96 to 26-FEB-96

 
SOLAR ACTIVITY

The Sun was quiet all last week with no major flares.  For most of the week
we tracked AR7946. The leading edge of this region was associated with a
large filament. 


SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

No significant SXT errors occurred.  SXT continues to function normally.

CAMPAIGNS

Filament campaign during part of the most of the week.
Correspondents:  R. Canfield, K. Reardon, A. Kiplinger, L. Jiao, H. Zirin
Purpose:  to observe filament channels and possibly catch eruptions with
          SXT in a configuration for good time resolution.
  

SEMINARS

There was no seminar in week 08.


                       SXT TABLE PLAN FOR WEEK 09
                        (26-Feb-96 to 03-Mar-96)

There is no official campaign this week, and we will operate conservatively
with only a few table uploads.  However, if activity continues to increase 
(as we see a couple of B-class flares!!), we may track the flaring region 
with ARS2.

On Thursday we plan to change to the weekly dark calibration table for one
day. The weekly diffuser images will be taken as part of a standard table
on Saturday.  


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

    KSC Time (start) in JST     Pass          Table ID        
_____________(= UT + 9 hrs)______#_______________________________
 
(Tuesday     27-Feb-96 00:21	 3	960226 P3 ARS2 STD+LONG)  
Wednesday   28-Feb-96 00:40	 3	960227 P3 ARS0 FILAMENT             
Thursday    29-Feb-96 02:43      4      960228 P4 ARS1 DKCAL       
Thursday    29-Feb-96 21:52      3      960229 P2 ARS2 STD+LONG
Saturday    02-Mar-96 01:38      4      960301 P4 ARS1 STD+DIFFU
Saturday    02-Mar-96 22:30      3      960302 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.