4 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

At the beginning of 1997, solar activity is low. There is one high-latitude
active region in the southern hemisphere.


SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

SXT emerged from the long New Year's holiday functioning properly.


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.


PLAN for week 2

Acton has sent email suggesting a week-long bakeout. A bakeout was planned
anyway, and activity is low, so this is probably a good time to go ahead.
Please refer to October 9, 1996, or thereabouts, for the previous example
of power control commands in the real-time operations.




                      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 put up a test table
for the long bakeout on Sunday night.


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

Saturday      4-JAN-97 20:26     3          970104   P3 ARS1 DARKCAL
Sunday        5-Jan-97 17:19     2          970105   P2 ARS1 TEST+DIF  
Monday        6-JAN-97 17:37     2          970106   P2 ARS2 BAKE


 *** 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.