4 March 1996 Nariaki Nitta SXT CHIEF OBSERVER REPORT AND TABLE PLAN SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT for Week 09: 26-FEB-96 to 03-MAR-96 SOLAR ACTIVITY The solar activity continued to be very low. Although a filament was probably associated with it, AR 7946 did not show spectacular changes. We spent long time observing the north polar region for XBP flares and jets. SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS SXT was completely operational only with one bit map error. CAMPAIGNS No official campaign during the week, but at one time we coordinated with the VLA with a short notice. SEMINARS There was no seminar in week 09. SXT TABLE PLAN FOR WEEK 10 (04-Mar-96 to 10-Mar-96) No official campaign was scheduled for this week, but this morning we have received a request for coordinated observations with SoHO, which will focus on plumes from the south polar region on 7 March 1996. So we hope to do special observing with dress rehearsals. Details of the tables still have to be worked out. On Monday we plan to do weekly dark calibration. The weekly diffuser images will be taken as part of a standard table on Friday. The provisional SXT Table Plan for the week is as follows: KSC Time (start) in JST Pass Table ID _____________(= UT + 9 hrs)______#_______________________________ Monday 04-Mar-96 21:25 3 960304 P3 ARS1 DKCAL Tuesday 05-Mar-96 20:01 2 960305 P2 ARS1 S POL+LNG Wednesday 06-Mar-96 20:20 3 960306 P3 ARS1 S POL+LNG Thursday 07-Mar-96 20:39 3 960307 P3 ARS1 S POL+LNG Friday 08-Mar-96 20:58 4 960308 P4 ARS1 STD+DIFF Saturday 09-Mar-96 19:34 3 960309 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.