LASCO Activity Report for
February 2, 2006 SOHO Science Daily Meeting

Planner: K. Schenk, G. Stenborg

Event times are first frame seen in C2 camera unless otherwise noted.
These are preliminary observations for the daily SOHO science discussions.
Final analysis is reported on the Lasco CME list.
An archive of these reports is available.


Points Of Interest

Mercury can be seen now in the C3 FOV, in the southern hemisphere, moving 
from right to left. It is expected to be in the C3 FOV until around Feb 2.


2006/02/01 (Wednesday)

	  WS West	The slow development of a system of faint loops can be
			discerned since late on previous day partly superposed
			in the LOS with the faint and diffuse fronts on SW. 

01:31 UT  S West	Faint and diffuse front.

	04:30 - 09:06 UT	Temporary Data gap.

12:30 UT  S West	Diffuse front that fades close to the inner edge of C3.

16:06 UT  EN East	Kind of reconection event (blob -very faint- coming 
			out and corresponding blob falling down) at around 
			PA 65 (~2.85 solar radii).

2006/02/02 (Thursday)

03:30 UT  EN East	Another reconection-type event at PA 68 (~ 4.23 solar
 			radii).

Last C2 image available by the time of writing: 06:06 UT.


Web curator: K.M.Schenk
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar Physics Branch / Code 682
Greenbelt, MD 20771