SXT Status Report
                       19 June - 25 June 1995 (Week 25)
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                                David Alexander
                                   25-Jun-95

Back in Japan after several months I am pleased to find that not much has changed.
I still crack my head off the doorways, get a headache from sake and have lunch
every day at Sagaminos.  It is also good to see some old friends once again.
What is different is the season.  Currently it is wet but
I believe this will soon change to being hot and wet. The headline news in Japan
these days is also noticeably different with all sorts of exciting things happening,
including the recent hijacking of a aeroplane by a man with an ice-pick (you could
poke your eye out with one those!). In order to remove the monotony of long
commutes, the Japanese transport industry has transformed itself into a thrill a 
minute ride and I forgot to pack my canary, too!

	The past week has seen the current Chief Observer slowly getting back into
the swing of things, despite being hit with some nasty disease brought back from
the US.  Yohkoh is a wonderful spacecraft and it is always great to see the dedication 
and hard work of all involved with its operation, particularly the tohbans at 
ISAS and KSC.  

This week's report is brought to you live by satellite.


SOLAR ACTIVITY

	The activity level was low with one major active region  (AR 7882), 
traversing the solar disk.  The low activity allowed us to continue with
our coordinated filament observation campaign with Hawaii's Mees Observatory. 


SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

     The SXT instrument continues to be in fine working order.  Only one
Bitmap error occurred.  


CALIBRATION STATUS

	The offpoint terminator program continues.    


PASS CONFLICTS

	We lost a total of 6 passes due to conflicts with ASCA.


SCIENCE

       Tom Metcalf continues to impress us with the Pixon image
       reconstruction of HXT data (see last week's report for a 
       brief summary.  Application to several 'important' events 
       yielded extemely positive results.

       Hugh Hudson and David Alexander prepared 4 posters for next
       week's Dana Point meetin (Hugh will attend).  The main
       subject of study is the solar X-ray counterparts of CMEs and
       interplanetary bi-directional streaming events in conjunction
       with Ulysses observations.


SEMINARS

	A Yohkoh seminar was held on 21 June 1995.  About 20 people 
attended.  Speakers and titles were:
  1. T, Metcalf: "Pixons"
  2. D. Alexander: "Polar crown events and the flare myth"


PERSONNEL

	David Alexander arrived and is currently SXT Chief Observer.  
        He will be here until early August.  Gary Linford arrived
        for his spell as ISAS software guru and Alphonse Sterling
        returned from the Memphis SPD meeting.  Hugh Hudson left for 
        the SolWind8 meetin at Dana Point.  Carl Foley (MSSL) leaves
        for home on Tuesday and Sam Krucker (ETH Zurich) leaves on 
        Wednesday.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

        Most books now say our sun is a star.  But it still knows how to change
        back into a sun in the daytime.
                                    anonymous child

Week 25 Tohbans:
   SSOC: H. Makajima and T.R. Metcalf
   KSC:  K. Ichimoto and S. Sano
SXT Chief Observer:
   D. Alexander
SXT Systems and Data Engineer:
   G. Linford