SXT Status Report
                       03 July - 09 June 1995 (Week 27)
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                                David Alexander
                                   08-Jul-95

In a week where an inspired Becker outplayed an brilliant Agassi and 
Sanchez-Viccario beats her compadre and last year's Wimbledon Champion 
(Conchita Martinez) the ISAS tennis court remains shrouded in vertical 
humidity.  If only I could find some decent strawberries and cream! 

We celebrated Alphonse Sterling's birthday this week with a visit to a 
shabu-shabu restaurant.  The "shabu-shabu" is supposed to refer to the sound 
made by the meat as you waft it through the boiling water to cook it.  
Personally, I think it refers to the gibberish spoken by the diners after 
their umpteenth sake.  

Gas attacks continue to make the news but there is no truth to the rumour that
the new trade agreement between the US and Japan includes the unrestricted
import of canaries. 

Oh, and it is still raining!   


SOLAR ACTIVITY

   The activity level remains low.  We have adpated to the quieter
   solar conditions by carrying out long exposure observations of the
   diffuse corona.  We have also been monitoring a large filament with 
   the hope of seeing some coronal response to any eruption that may occur.
   This is being done in conjunction with the Mees Observatory, Hawaii.  
   No data from these observations have been analysed yet  


SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

   The SXT instrument continues to be in great working order
   with only one bitmap error this week.   


CALIBRATION STATUS

   The offpoint terminator program continues with many
   terminator images taken this week.  The diligence of
   the SSOC tohbans helps make this a successful program.    


PASS CONFLICTS

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


SCIENCE

   The application of the pixon map reconstruction to a variety of 
   HXT observations is providing some interesting results.  Their
   seems to be a marked improvement over other reconstruction
   techniques for many events.  

SEMINARS

   There were two seminars this week at ISAS:

   "Solar Wind 8" - H. Hudson

   "Around the World for Solar Science" - K. Shibata

   In these seminars the speakers tried to justify their boondoggles by
   informing us of the highlights of the various meetings they attended.
   Yohkoh results continue to feature prominently in solar and solar-
   terrestrial meetings.

PERSONNEL

   Tom Metcalf and family left for home after introducing us all here
   to the delights (and mysteries) of pixons.

   Hugh Hudson returned from the SolWind 8 meeting in Dana Point.

   Serge Koutchmy (Inst. D'Ap. Paris and NAOJ) visits ISAS this week.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

   Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.

                                                                    Aubrey Eben

Week 27 Tohbans:
   SSOC: Bushimata and Koshiisi
   KSC:  Tonooka and Fujiki
SXT Chief Observer:
   D. Alexander
SXT Systems and Data Engineer:
   G. Linford