15 March 1996
                                                          Hugh Hudson 


                SXT CHIEF OBSERVER REPORT AND TABLE PLAN

SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT for Week 11:   10-Mar-96 to 17-Mar-96


SOLAR ACTIVITY

The solar activity continued to be low, but there was a nice AR with
lots of sub-C events and general enthusiasm (tiny brightenings in the
leading polarity, jets, etc). 

SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

There were no problems. The difficulties with SXTSPT did not recur and
there seems to be no technical issue, according to an informal report
from Hara_san.

CAMPAIGNS

There were no campaign activities this week. The next scheduled campaign
is the bright-point campaign in early April. After the Bath week (see the
plan below) there will also be the possibility of target-of-opportunity
observations, such as for filament eruptions.

SEMINARS

There was no ISAS seminar this week.



                       SXT TABLE PLAN FOR WEEK 12
                        (18-Mar-96 to 25-Mar-96)

No official campaign is scheduled for this week, the ISAS mainframe
computer will be down for three days, and most of the Yohkoh operations
people will be at the Bath meeting. Thus we do not plan to do anything
more than limited caretaker operations. The plan below shows only the
dark cal table (22 Mar) and the standard table to replace it (23 Mar).
The long exposures are removed and we will do Al.1 and AlMg terminators
with no offpoints if the opportunities arise.


    KSC Time (start) in JST     Pass          Table ID
_____________(= UT + 9 hrs)______#_______________________________

Friday       22-Mar-96 15:08      4      960322 P4 ARS1 DKCAL 
Saturday     23-Mar-96 12:02      2      960323 P2 ARS1 STD 

*** 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.