2 January 1997 
                                                                H Hudson

              SXT CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT AND TABLE PLAN

                 CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT for Weeks 1-2 
		        4-Jan-97 to 12-Jan-97	
                         

SOLAR ACTIVITY

Well, we've been on holiday and the biggest flare has been in the A range.
There have also been no Bearalerts nor messages from Joe Gurman exulting 
about wonderful CMEs, so it may have been the right time to have a holiday.
Recent SOHO images show a high-latitude region coming onto the disk in
the SE quadrant.


SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

The SXT instrument probably remains in fine working condition, but we
won't know until Sunday.


CAMPAIGNS

There were no campaigns or coordinated observations in this reporting
period. 


SEMINARS

There were no Yohkoh seminars. But the Cirque du Soleil was on TV in Japan -
a great act from Quebec, catch it in person or on the tube if you can.





                      SXT TABLE PLAN FOR WEEKS 1-2
                        (4-Jan-97 to 12-Jan-97)

There are no formal campaigns that we know about yet for the near
term in 1997. 
The dark-calibration table will be loaded on Saturday night (Jan. 4), as 
soon as we confirm that things are OK, and we will plan to do the 
quarterly bakeout as soon as feasible after that. 


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

Thursday      4-JAN-97 20:26     3          970402   P3 ARS1 DARKCAL

TBD...

 *** Please note that this table plan may change during the week. ***


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.