30 June 1996
                                                         
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                SXT CHIEF OBSERVER REPORT AND TABLE PLAN

SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT for Week 26:   24-JUN-96 to 30-JUN-96


Solvin' problems is like throwin' cattle. Dig your heels in on the big
ones and catch the little ones 'round the neck.

                                from  `A Cowboy's Guide To Life'

SOLAR ACTIVITY

Solar activity has been low, although there were several small active
regions on the disc at the same time in week 26.


SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS 

There was an SXT bitmap error on the 24th at the first contact, recovered
immediately with Yobi-C.  At Pass 4 on the 26th an SXT Shou-gou
(comparison) error occurred (probably related to an MS computer problem at
KSC the previous day), and was recovered by Hara-san on the 26th. 
Otherwise, SXT performed smoothly this week and is operating well. 

CAMPAIGNS

During week 27 we supported a campaign with Alexander Pevtsov (SPO),
observing AR7973 for a few days for Stokes measurements.

SEMINARS

On Thursday, June 27, Dr K. Ichimoto  of NAO discussed "Measurement of the
Coronal Electron Temperature at the Total Solar Eclipse on 1994 Nov.3"

DISC PROBLEM

The data disc on isass2 machine had a problem on Saturday.  At the moment
recent reformatted data is not available.  We are trying to redirect the
output of the reformatter to another disc, and repair the isass2 drive. 




                       SXT TABLE PLAN FOR WEEK 27
                         (1-Jul-96 to 7-Jul-96)

No coordinated campaigns are currently scheduled for this week.
A dark calibration table will be loaded on Tuesday, and the weekly
diffusers included as part of a standard table on Wednesday.

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

Monday       1-JUL-96 15:12	 4         960701 P4 ARS1 STD+LONG 
Tuesday	     2-JUL-96 12:04      2         960702 P2 ARS1 DKCAL
Wednesday    3-JUL-96 10:40      2	   960703 P2 ARS1 DIFFUSER
Thursday     4-JUL-96 12:42      3	   960704 P3 ARS1 STD+LONG
Friday	     5-JUL-96 13:02      4	   960705 P4 ARS1 STD+LONG
Saturday     6-JUL-96 09:54      2	   960706 P2 ARS1 STD+LONG

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


Dumping Patrol images:

   We request that KSC tohbans continue to dump a patrol image each time an
SXT table is loaded to facilitate the study of optimizing ARS parameters
for an awfully, 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.