16 September 1996
                                                               Serge Savy 


                SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT AND TABLE PLAN


SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT for Week 37:  9-Sep-96 to 15-Sep-96

The belief that science leads to wisdom -- to an actually rational
self-cognition and cognition of the world and God...  - this great belief,
once the substitute for religious belief, has (at least in wide circles)
lost its force. 

                         -  Husserl, Formal and Transcendental Logic


Never smack a man who's chewin' tobacco.

                         -  A Cowboy's Guide to Life


SOLAR ACTIVITY

Solar activity remained low, around A-class level, with no active regions
visible on the disc, but many brightpoints.

SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

No significant problems. SXT continues to function well.

CAMPAIGNS

We supported SoHO CDS observations of a tiny active region(brightpoint?) on 13
September for Louise Harra-Murnion (MSSL). 

SEMINARS

No seminars last week.




                       SXT TABLE PLAN FOR WEEK 38
                        (16-Sep-96 to 21-Sep-96)


Should I betray the proletariat to serve truth or betray truth in the name
of the proletariat? 
                          - Sartre


The only campaign activity scheduled for this week is the VLA filament
observation being planned by Gopalswamy (Maryland) and others.  This takes
place on 17-Sep.
       
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     17-SEP-96 02:25      4          960916 P4 ARS0 DKCAL

Wednesday   18-SEP-96 01:01      3          960917 P3 ARS0 STD+DIFF

Thursday    18-SEP-96 23:37      3          960918 P3 ARS0 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.