7 November 1999
                                                              H. Hudson
                                                            D. McKenzie


 
                   CHIEF OBSERVER'S REPORT for Week 45
                        31-Oct-99 to 7-Nov-99


GENERAL

Solar activity started low but wound up with a flourish, in the form
of a huge arcade event at the limb from the new active region in the
north, 8759. There will be a special observation on Monday, Nov. 15,
to record Yohkoh's second transit of Mercury. Next week also we will
see the Leonids again.

SXT TECHNICAL 

The instrument continued to work well. The adjustment last week to the
flare patrol image seem to have had the desired effect, in that we
missed no flare locations this week.

For Web material see

Current Week: http://isass1.solar.isas.ac.jp/sxt_co/991029.html
Index:        http://isass1.solar.isas.ac.jp/sxt_co/index.html

This week's science nugget comments on the behavior of the 
transequatorial loops, which varied slowly with time.

CAMPAIGNS

For SXT plans, see:

http://isass1.solar.isas.ac.jp/sxt_co/sxt_future.html

For SXT completed campaigns, see:

http://isass1.solar.isas.ac.jp/sxt_co/sxt_catalog.html


PERSONNEL

Lyndsay Fletcher returned to Palo Alto; Dick Canfield arrived
from Bozeman.

SEMINARS

There was no seminar this week.


                       SXT TABLE PLAN, WEEK 46
                       (07-Nov-99 to 13-Nov-99)

There are no planned joint-observing campaigns, and in fact our
flexibiility with Yohkoh is considerably reduced because of an
extremely large fraction of KSC contact pass cancellations.
We do include a test table preparatory for the Mercury transit on
November 15 - please recall the princely observation we made in
1993 (November 6).

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JST Day         UT Start Time      Pass   Table ID

Monday           7-NOv-99 18:31    1      991107 P1 ARS1 STD* 
Tuesday          8-NOV-99 20:26    3      991108 P3 ARS1 DIFF* 
Wednesday        9-NOV-99 20:39    3      991109 P3 ARS1 DARK* 
Thursday        10-NOV-99 17:28    1      991110 P1 MERCURY*
Thursday        10-NOV-99 20:53    3      991110 P3 ARS1 STD*  
Friday          11-NOV-99 15:59    1      991111 P1 ARS1 STD* 
Saturday        12-NOV-99 17:54    2      991112 P2 ARS1 STD* 
Sunday          13-NOV-99 18:07    3      991113 P3 ARS1 STD*


As previously, the * in the table name indicates that the UT
date doesn't match the JST date of the contact pass.

This plan is subject to change all over again.