REPORT FROM ISAS   10/30/91
L. Acton

We are winding down a really exciting 10 days.  It began a week ago last
Sunday when hordes of visitors began showing up for the first
post-launch Yohkoh Science Meeting.  The data analysis center in ISAS
building D 4th floor was a beehive of activity as we "locals" had the
pleasure of introducing our visiting colleagues to the ever expanding
Yohkoh data store.  Just as that meeting was being brought to a
successful conclusion data appeared from the X1 (actually M9.5 I'm
told--picky, picky, picky) flare of 10/24/91 22:30 UT.  

Yesterday we held the first of what is intended to be weekly informal
science discussions here at ISAS within the resident team.  Good results
are beginning to appear from all of the Yohkoh instruments.  The HXT
team has the toughest job, to complete and proof test the software for
creating hard x-ray images, but the data are there and soon this hurdle,
too, will be cleared. 

One of the truly wonderful developments this past week is that John
Mariska brought a copy of MicroEMACS, a Unix screen editor that emulates
EDT.  It works like a champ.  Goodby vi!!!!!!!!

The Yohkoh Science Committee + observers met last week twice and reached
several important agreements on presentations and publications.  One
that is especially important at this time concerns the release of SXT
images for public information purposes.  It was agreed that any single
SXT image may be released for public information purposes.  Its use
should include the following credit, or something equivalent,

"This image was acquired by the Soft X-ray Telescope on the
Yohkoh solar research spacecraft of the Japanese Institute of
Space and Astronautical Science.  The Soft X-ray Telescope
experiment is a Japan/U.S. collaboration involving the National
Astronomical Observtory of Japan, the University of Tokyo, and
the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory.  The U.S. work is
supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration."

It was also agreed to submit an early paper on SXT results to SCIENCE
magazine as soon as possible.  This will be followed by a special issue
of Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan in about 6 months
with a set of early-results papers from the Yohkoh team. 

An electronic Yohkoh Team Bulletin Board is to be established for all
Yohkoh researchers to post and update science topics describing their
research plans.  Initially, the editors of the TBB will be Uchida and
Acton.  Topic submittal will be coordinated by the Yohkoh Data Use
Coordinators (Fludra, Watanabe, Tsuneta, Strong, Kosugi, Yoshimori).  We
also plan to establish a Yohkoh "Newsletter" bulletin board to aid flow
of information to and from the outside scientific community.  All of
this work will take a bit of time but there is an excellent spirit of
cooperation and I have every confidence that the Yohkoh mission will be
both enjoyable and scientifically productive.