SOHO WEEKLY PLANNING MEETING MINUTES
                 For Week 36,  Sept 2 - 8 , 1996


  CHAIR: Laura Allen
  NOTES: Piet Martens

	
  1. ANNOUNCEMENTS

  SOHO USA - EUROPE softball match has been set for Sunday, September 22,
  2:00 pm, at Foxhill Park, Bowie, MD. Jean Desselle is arranging
  equipment. We need more people to sign up on both sides -- so far we
  have 7 on each side!

  Potluck at Martens, on September 8, from 4:00 to 8:30. Directions and
  sign-up sheet will be sent out next week. Guests and children are most
  welcome.

  
  2. MONTHLY SCHEDULE UPDATE

  No major problems with coordinated observations (alias "campaign")
  #'s reported. System will continue as is.

  Weekly planners for the coronal experiments and MDI will be added
  to the monthly calendar on the Web from now on.  SOC requests that
  people send monthly schedule updates and names of weekly planners
  to:  calendar@esa.nascom.nasa.gov 

  For updates made at the meeting, see, as usual:
  http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/operations/schedule/monthly.txt
   

  3. OPERATIONS CONSTRAINTS
  - DSN Schedule: normal schedule, see the Web pages
  - SVM Reserved: nothing unusual

	
  4. COORDINATED OPERATIONS


     M Sep  2 (W36) Sumer/Tenerife 7-14 UT, "Velocity Field in Photosphere
                    and Transition Region" (#310)
     T Sep  3       Sac Peak/SUMER/La Palma (#300); 14:00 - 17:00 UT
 	            Sac Peak: Bruce Lites, EOF: Tom Moran
     W Sep  4       Sac Peak/SUMER/La Palma (#300); 14:00 - 17:00 UT
 	            Sac Peak: Bruce Lites, EOF: Tom Moran
		    Intercal009 (UVCS/SUMER, #320)
     T Sep  5       Sac Peak/SUMER/La Palma (#300); 14:00 - 17:00 UT
                    Sac Peak: Bruce Lites, EOF: Tom Moran
		    Intercal002 (#330)
     F Sep  6       Sac Peak/SUMER/La Palma (#300); 14:00 - 17:00 UT
                    Sac Peak: Bruce Lites, EOF: Tom Moran
     S Sep  7       Sac Peak/SUMER/La Palma (#300); 14:00 - 17:00 UT
                    Sac Peak: Bruce Lites, EOF: Tom Moran
     S Sep  8       Sac Peak/SUMER/La Palma (#300); 14:00 - 17:00 UT
                    Sac Peak: Bruce Lites, EOF: Tom Moran

     Other activities for Week 36:

     Planners for Week 36:
     CDS  - Bill Thompson(until 9/6)/C.D. Pike   SUMER -  M. Mathioudakis 
     UVCS - Joe Michels 			 EIT   -  J. Gurman  

     Tom Moran: Sac Peak/SUMER/La Palma collaboration is a study of 
     chromospheric oscillations. For SOHO, MDI, CDS, EIT, and SUMER
     have been asked to contribute. SUMER, MDI confirm. CDS may run
     He 304 movie. At Sac Peak the HAO Advanced Stokes Polarimeter
     will observe, at La Palma, the Lockheed Tunable Optical Filter.

     JOP044 (global Sun) is going into its final week. A schedule for
     the upcoming week was produced yesterday. Yohkoh yet to confirm.
 
     Ted Tarbell reminds experimenters to request extra DSN time to
     cover collaborations with the Canaries at least a month in advance.
     SOC monitors monthly schedule, and requests needed time a month
     in advance, but experimenters need to provide timely input to 
     calendar for this to happen.
     


   5. WEEKLY SCIENCE TIMELINE
   
   - Daily Plans from IAP's: No input yet from MDI, UVCS, and LASCO.
     Experiment reps attribute this to S/W and personnel problems,
     but will provide input a.s.a.p. SOC will review weekly plans with
     experiments on Saturday and Monday.
   - VC2/VC3 Transitions: SOC reminds MDI of necessary OCD's, would like
     to get into the habit of submitting 1 OCD at the end of each week
     for additional VC2 needed for the following week.
   - TM Submodes: no submode transitions planned
   - Use of Flag: not foreseen
   - Timing of Large CMD Uploads: none foreseen
   - Updates/Completion Daily Plans: to be submitted today to ECS

   
   6. AOB

    None

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