3 August 1996
                                                              Serge Savy


                SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT AND TABLE PLAN


SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT for Week 31:   29-JUL-96 to 5-AUG-96

Wear a hat with a brim wide enough to shed sun and rain, fan a campfire,
dip water, and whip a fightin' cow in the face.

                                                 - A Cowboy's Guide To Life


SOLAR ACTIVITY

AR7981, now at disc centre, remained bright last week and produced many
B-class flares. 

SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

SXT continues to function well. The read-noise artifact that appeared with the
the long exposures on 27 July has disappeared. No particular action seems
necessary now, except to monitor such occurrences.

CAMPAIGNS

No campaigns last week.

SEMINARS

No seminar last week.




                       SXT TABLE PLAN FOR WEEK 32
                        (5-Aug-96 to 10-Aug-96)

This week we will be coordinating observations with SoHO CDS and Sumer
6-8 August.  The campaign target will be active region 7981, with the
standard 2x2 PFI setup. The objective is a study of active region
structure.

On 8 August until 12 August we will be engaged in a coronal structure
campaign for Sarah Gibson.  East or west offpoints and long exposure FFIs
will be scheduled. 
 
A dark calibration table will be loaded on Monday, and the weekly
diffusers included as part of a standard table on Tuesday.


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

Monday       5-AUG-96 21:26      3         960805 P3 ARS1 DKCAL
Tuesday      6-AUG-96 20:01      3         960806 P3 ARS2 STD+DIFFU
Wednesday    7-AUG-96 18:37      2         960807 P2 ARS2 STD
Thursday     8-AUG-96 17:13      2         960808 P2 ARS1 STD+LONG
Friday       9-AUG-96 19:15      3         960809 P3 ARS1 STD+LONG
Saturday    10-AUG-96 19:34      3         960810 P3 ARS1 STD

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


Continuing requests:

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.