27 September 1996
                                                          Jean-Pierre Wuelser
                                                          Hugh Hudson



                SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT AND TABLE PLAN



SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT for Week 39:  23-Sep-96 to 29-Sep-96



SOLAR ACTIVITY

Solar activity remained low, around A-class level.  The previous AR 7986
(=7981=7978) reappeared.  It is very large, but quiet and, for an active
region, relatively faint.


SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

No significant problems. SXT continues to function well.


CAMPAIGNS


A filament, chromospheric activity, and coronal loops campaign with
Tenerife and SOHO took place from September 21 through September 29.
It was coordinated by Brigitte Schmieder.


SEMINARS

There were no seminars this week.




                       SXT TABLE PLAN FOR WEEK 40
                        (29-Sep-96 to 5-Oct-96)



The main campaign activities scheduled for this week are coordinated
observations of the large scale loops of the current active region,
when it will be near the W limb on October 2 and 3.  Participating
instruments are LASCO, EIT, and CDS on SOHO.  Campaign coordinator
is Louise Harra.
       
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      30-SEP-96 20:33      4          960930 P4 ARS1 STD+LONG

Tuesday      1-OCT-96 19:09      4          961001 P4 ARS1 DKCAL

Wednesday    2-OCT-96 19:28      4          961002 P4 ARS1 STD+DIFF

Thursday     3-OCT-96 18:04      4          961003 P4 ARS1 STD+LONG

Friday       4-OCT-96 18:23      4          961004 P4 ARS1 STD+LONG

Saturday     5-OCT-96 18:42      4          961005 P4 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.