SXT Status Report 
                   9 - 15  January 1995  (Week 2)
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	                     16 January 1995
			      Nariaki Nitta


SUMMARY

We successfully carried out a campaign to observe X-ray bright points in 
coordination with Kitt Peak, taking advantage of the absence of bright 
active regions.  Karen Harvey organized the campaign and Mees Observatory
also participated but no Big Bear because of the storms that hit Southern
California.  Solar activity seems to be picking up, thanks to the 
appearance of AR 7827.  A nice PR video was produced on the occasion of
Dan Goldin's visit to Japan.


SOLAR ACTIVITY

The week of 9 January started with very low solar activity (nearly GOES A1), 
active region AR 7823 being the only region that had spots.  This region
consisted of several bright loops but they were never active.  As another
region AR 7827 rotated on to the east limb, the GOES background level
started increasing to about A6, with several B class flares.  Many X-ray
bright points (XBPs) were seen on the disk.  In coordination with Kitt 
Peak, SXT was operating in a special mode for 2-3 passes a day to observe   
XBPs in the 7.8' (EW) x 2.6' (NS) field of view.  We basically tracked an
area around N20.  A large fraction of the XBPs we observed were faint ones,
but one of the brighter ones flared up on 9 January, accompanied by a jet.


OPERATIONS

There were no errors and problems this week and operations went very 
smoothly.


VISITORS

Dan Goldin visited Japan and met with key ISAS personnel at the Ministry
of Education (Monbusho).  Jim Lemen and Greg Slater worked very hard to 
produce a Yohkoh video which Ogawara san handed Goldin at Monbusho.  The 
quality of the video seems to be high. 


SCIENCE

No Yohkoh seminar was held because neither Shibata san nor Hugh Hudson 
was available.  Two graduate students (Yoshimura san and Kubo san) are 
working day and night to complete their master's theses.  Yohkoh abstracts 
were prepared for submission to the ASJ spring meeting (the deadline was 
10 January).


PERSONNEL

No change in the personnel of the US SXT team.

Tohbans for Week 2
   SSOC: A. Takaeda, and S. Sano
   KSC:  K. Yaji and Y. Nakagawa
SXT Chief Observer:
   N. Nitta
SXT Systems and Data Engineer:
   G. Slater