14 October 1996 
                                                          Serge Savy



              SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT AND TABLE PLAN



                  CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT for Week 41   
                         8-Sep-96 to 13-Oct-96



SOLAR ACTIVITY

Solar activity remained low, with GOES at the background level.

SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

No problems or significant errors last week. SXT continues to function
well. Last week we successfully conducted a CCD bakeout on 9 October.  


CAMPAIGNS

Special observations of a filament on the south east limb were conducted in
coordination with SoHO 11 and 12 October.

SEMINARS

There were no seminars this week, as Thursday was a holiday.





                       SXT TABLE PLAN FOR WEEK 42
                        (14-Oct-96 to 20-Oct-92)


This week we will be supporting SoHO JOP33 14-18 October 14-18 by observing
XBPs (and hopefully X-ray Jets) for Lyndsay Fletcher. 

19-25 October we start a coronal loop filling factors campaigns with George
Klimchuk.  The purpose of this campaign is to observe AR loops and polar
plumes with CDS for filling-factor determinations.  Yohkoh would provide
key information on time variability of the CDS targets. 
       
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       14-OCT-96 12:58     4          961014 P4 ARS0 STD+LONG 

Tuesday      15-OCT-96 11:34     3          961015 P3 ARS0 DKCAL

Wednesday    16-OCT-96 10:09     3          961016 P3 ARS0 STD+DIFF

Thursday     17-OCT-96 10:28     3          961017 P3 ARS0 STD+LONG 

Friday       18-OCT-96 09:04     3          961018 P3 ARS0 STD+LONG

Saturday     19-OCT-96 09:23     3          961019 P3 ARS1 LOOPS

       *** 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.