SXT Status Report
                       24 July - 30 June 1995 (Week 30)
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                                David Alexander
                                   29-Jul-95


Well, this is my last week at ISAS before heading home to the range.
It is been a long arduous visit but as always at ISAS much was learned
and accomplished.  Even the weather got better.  Today sees a significant
portion of the local residents visit ISAS for the open house.  This is a
day when ISAS opens its doors to the public and shows them what they are
getting for their tax money.  Many of the Yohkoh students have put a lot of
work into this day and we hope their efforts were appreciate by the visitors.
Yohkoh yet again appeared on Japanese TV along with an interview with Enome-san
and Sakurai-san.  Yohkoh continues to have a broad appeal to the public at 
large.


SOLAR ACTIVITY

   The activity level remains low.  Not much doing on the 
campaign or special observations front.  
  

SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

   No problems with the SXT this week.   


CALIBRATION STATUS

   The offpoint terminator program continues.      


PASS CONFLICTS

   We lost a total of 7 passes due to conflicts with ASCA.


NEW CAMPAIGN

   Koutchmy-san and Hara-san have proposed a campaign to

   "Identify and deduce relevant parameters of small scale features seen at
   high temperature in polar regions at time when polar faculae are still
   active."

   This proposal was accepted by the WOM.

SCIENCE

   A early draft of the pixon paper by Tom Metcalf, Hugh Hudson and co-authors
   shows an HXT for the Feb 21 1992 event the SXT observations of which have
   been extensively studied by Tsuneta-san.  This is a breakthrough for the
   pixon method since the standard MEM reconstruction could not deal with the
   low hard X-ray count rates in this event.  It is also to interesting to note
   that at first glance the HXT LO channel sources found by the pixon approach
   matches with the locations of the high temperature regions detected by SXT. 
   

SEMINARS

   Yohkoh seminars have stopped for the interim.  Stay tuned!  

PERSONNEL

   Len Culhane visits ISAS for 1 week to work with Hugh Hudson on
   a Yohkoh review.

   Mark Weber arrived Thursday and immediately headed off to Osaka for
   the weekend.  Smart move, I think.  Mark takes over as Chief Observer
   this week.

   David Alexander returns to the wild and woolly west on Aug 2.


QUOTE OF THE WEEK

   "Some things have to be believed to be seen."
                                               Ralph Hodgson


Week 30 Tohbans:
   SSOC: Watanabe_Te and Morimoto
   KSC:  Matsuda and Noguchi
SXT Chief Observer:
   D. Alexander
SXT Systems and Data Engineer: