17 November 1996 
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              SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT AND TABLE PLAN

                  CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT for Week 46
			11-Nov-96 to 17-Nov-96
                         

SOLAR ACTIVITY

Solar activity continued to be generally low during the week with only a
few B-class flares.  Small active regions were seen (AR 7993: short-lived,
AR 7994: the target region of SERTS, AR 7995: located close both to the 
equator and the remnant of the many roatation-old region, and AR 7996: a 
new cycle region at the relatively high latitude (N35)).  None of them has 
shown high activity so far.  Except for the 13th, when we observed AR 7994 
in coordination with SERTS, our field of view was on the east limb to await
the occurrence of a spectacular CME, which we have not yet seen.


SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

SXT operations went smoothly without problems.


CAMPAIGNS

SoHO JOP 3 to observe CME initiation.  SERTS (launched 13-NOV-96 18:30 UT
during Yohioh night).


SEMINARS

On Thursday 14 November, the Yohkoh seminar resumed.  The speakers and
titles were: 

D. Gary: "Microwave spectral imaging using Spatial/Spectral MEM" and
A. Phillips: "1/6 of my thesis."

Dale is vising Nobeyama for a month stay.  He was stuck in this area until 
next morning because he missed the train.  Andy has just finished PhD at 
UCL and the talk was on superhot flares as observed by BCS Fe XXVI channel,
which was last 1/6 of his thesis.  




                       SXT TABLE PLAN FOR WEEK 47
                        (18-Nov-96 to 24-Nov-96)

We carry on the SoHO campaign JOP 3 this week and the target is selected 
on a daily basis.

A dark calibration table will be loaded on Tuesday, and the weekly
diffusers included as part of a standard table on Thursday.  All
terminator opportunities will be used but no terminator offpoints will be
required. 

Please note that the KSC pass ID and the SXT Table ID sometimes show
different dates because of the JST/UT problem at this time.

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

Monday       18-NOV-96 17:25     2	    961118 P2 ARS0 STD+LONG

Tuesday      19-NOV-96 19:27     4	    961119 P4 ARS0 DKCAL

Wednesday    20-NOV-96 18:03     3	    961120 P3 ARS0 STD+LONG

Thursday     21-NOV-96 14:55     2	    961121 P2 ARS0 LONG+DIFF

Friday       22-NOV-96 15:14	 2	    961122 P2 ARS0 STD+LONG

Saturday     23-NOV-96 19:00	 4	    961123 P4 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
during quiet times. 

SSOC TOHBAN, please e-mail any terminator schedule to the chief observer
(sxt_co@isass0) so that he can decide about filters and offpoints.