9 Sep 1996
                                                               Serge Savy 


                SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT AND TABLE PLAN


SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT for Week 36:    2-Sep 96 to 8-Sep-96


SOLAR ACTIVITY

Solar activity remained low, with only one B-class flare on 4 September.

SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

No significant problems. SXT continues to function well.

CAMPAIGNS

We finished the campaign to observe the large scale structure of the solar
minimum corona with SoHO (JOP044).  This campaign is coordinated by Sarah
Gibson and Douglas Biesecker. 

Details on SoHO JOP 44 can be found at

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/operations/campaigns/soho/JOP044-199608.txt
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/operations/JOPs/jop044.html


SEMINARS

5-Sep-96: D.  Melrose (U.  Sydney), "The role of large-scale currents in
solar flares".  This seminar presented one side of the debate with Parker
regarding the interpretation of vector magnetographs, and also dealt with
criticisms of the reconnection models for solar flares. 




                       SXT TABLE PLAN FOR WEEK 37
                        (9-Sep-96 to 15-Sep-96)

The only campaign activity scheduled for this week is the VLA filament
observation being planned by Gopalswamy (Maryland) and others.  This takes
place on 8-Sep (our holiday), 15-Sep (another holiday) and 17-Sep.  Because
of the holiday conflicts we don't plan any particular activity except to
comment to Gopal about choice of target and hope for the best. 
       
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)______#_______________________________

Tuesday     10-SEP-96 05:22      4          960909 P4 ARS1 DKCAL

Wednesday   11-SEP-96 03:58      3          960910 P3 ARS1 STD+DIFF

Thursday    12-SEP-96 00:50      2          960911 P2 ARS1 STD+LONG

       *** 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.