SOHO WEEKLY PLANNING MEETING MINUTES
                 For Week 35, Aug 26 - Sept 1, 1996

CHAIR:  Laura Allen
NOTES:  Piet Martens

1. ANNOUNCEMENTS

In response to a recent SWT decision, starting today SOHO joint observations 
(JOP runs, Intercals, collaborations, and campaigns) have been assigned a 
unique number from their very first appearance in the planning process, i.e.
the SOHO calendar. See there, or under point 4 of these minutes for examples.
This number  will be used in the experiment IAP's, and therefrom propagate 
into the as-run database and the catalogues, as well as to the headers of 
the FITS files.
This way all the information pertaining to one campaign is linked from the 
beginning of the data pipeline all the way into the archive, for the benefit 
of future archive users.

It was pointed out that the user does not need to know a priori the exact 
number of the campaign in order to get access to the data; the point is that
the information is linked internally through the campaign number. For example,
a future user may do a search for runs of JOP048 in August 1996 (a feature not
yet implemented in the archive), therefrom retrieve the campaign number(s) for
each of of the runs, and then use that to retrieve the data.

The SOC has assigned numbers to the activities that are currently on the 
calendar. The numbers 0-199 have been reserved for past joint observations.  Since there is a large degree of arbitrariness in what constitutes a 
"campaign", a great degree of flexibility has been used in assigning numbers; 
only multiples of 10 have been used, starting from 200. Thus, when the leader of a JOP or campaign decides that the "campaign" at hand really constitutes a 
number of different campaigns, she or he is at liberty to assign up to 10 
sequential numbers starting from the original one. On the other hand, when 
several joint observations with different numbers really constitute one 
campaign, the leader can decide to stick with the first number. 

Obviously any changes in the numbers assigned to joint observations should be 
communicated clearly and early in the process to the SOC and the daily 
meeting.

    
2. MONTHLY SCHEDULE UPDATE

Several updates of the SOHO calendar were made for the period September 2 - 
October 31, see our Web pages:    http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/operations/schedule/monthly.txt

	
3. OPERATIONS CONSTRAINTS

DSN Schedule: There are 18 hour contacts for most days in the coming week, 
covering the La Palma collaborations as well as GSFC daylight hours and evenings.
SVM Reserved: nothing outside the usual.

4. COORDINATED OPERATIONS (# refers to the "campaign" number)

Ongoing:   	"Whole Sun Month", JOP044 (#190), EOF: Doug Biesecker
Daily:     	JOP001 phase 1, 8-18 UT,  (EIT, #260, with MDI/La Palma)
                JOP-leader: Joe Gurman

M Aug 26 (W35)  MDI/La Palma Collaboration 8:00 - 19:00 UT (#240)
                Intercal001 (#270),  Udo Schuehle
T Aug 27	MDI/La Palma Collaboration 8:00 - 19:00 UT (#240)
		Rho Leo (UVCS, #280)
W Aug 28	MDI/La Palma Collaboration 8:00 - 19:00 UT (#240)
		Rho Leo (CDS/SUMER, #280)
T Aug 29	Rho Leo (CDS/SUMER, #280)
 		MDI/La Palma Collaboration 8:00 - 19:00 UT (#240)
F Aug 30	MDI/La Palma Collaboration 8:00 - 19:00 UT (#240)
 		JOP048 MDI/EIT/SUMER/CDS (North pole, #290). 
		Jop-leader: Craig DeForest
S Aug 31        MDI/La Palma Collaboration 8:00 - 19:00 UT (#240)
S Sep  1 

Other activities for week 35:  During the nearly 18 hours of daily DSN contact
MDI will be taking high cadence images in its high resolution field of view
near disk center.  Ted Tarbell recommends other experiments to follow suit.

5. WEEKLY SCIENCE TIMELINE

- Daily Plans from IAP's: CDS will perform several shifts in its daily plans 
  to coordinate JOP044 observations with SUMER, and have high resolution 
  observations simultaneous with La Palma and MDI.
- VC2/VC3 Transitions: MDI requested an additional hour daily between 15:00 
  and 16:00 UT. The OCD will be submittted to the FOT later this afternoon.
- TM Submodes: No submode changes foreseen
- Use of Flag: Not foreseen
- Timing of Large CMD Uploads: No large uploads foreseen
- Updates/Completion Daily Plans: to be submitted to ECS
		      

6. AOB
 
- SOHO Day at the Beach: Wednesday August 28. Go/No go decision at daily 
  meeting on Tuesday August 27. Carpools to be arranged at same meeting. 
  Those needing a ride can also contact: pmartens@esa.nascom.nasa.gov. 
  For detailed directions and a description of the beach and the town of
  Lewes, see the SOHO Social Calendar:
  http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/meetings/soho_social.txt

- SOHO Science Club: after the conclusion of the weekly meeting two Science 
  Club gatherings were confirmed for the coming week:

  TUESDAY  AUGUST 27, 3:30 at EAF -- Ted Tarbell, "MDI Results"
  THURSDAY AUGUST 29, 3:30 at EAF;
  -- Giulio del Zanna, "Coronal Hole Boundaries"
  -- Chris StCyr will lead a discussion on the recent Chapman Conference 
     on CME's at Bozeman.

END-OF-MINUTES