16 August 1999. The active region is in the East, at the left hand side of the solar image. There is a large cusp visible in SXT, and a sunspot visible in H alpha. There are several filaments on the disk of the sun at this time: a large one is obvious down the middle, and also small bit of filament visible to the right of the sunspot. Neither of these are the filament associated with the  SXT sigmoid. That will grow later....