LASCO Activity Report for
May 5, 2008 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




2008/05/02 (Friday)

06:30 UT  N West	Small ragged front that disintegrates through C2.

10:30 UT  S West	Slow development of a system of faint loop fronts.
			Difficult to give an exact time of first appearance.
			First seen in C3 at 12:42 UT, followed at 16:18 UT
			by an elongated expanding loop front. Its WIDTH in
			the C3 FOV at 01:42 UT (the next day) is: ~ 65 deg.
			

2008/05/03 (Saturday)

03:54 UT  WS West	Couple of small ragged fronts .

10:33 UT  SS West	Elongated fan-like front (top of a very narrow
			loop front that fades throughout C2).
	
16:06 UT  WS West	Extremely faint ragged front. First seen in C3
			at 19:42 UT. It fades throughout C3.

17:30 UT  N East	Faint jet-like front.

2008/05/04 (Sunday)

	05:30 - 09:54 UT	LASCO Data Gap (C2 time).

11:30 UT  S West	Elongated spray-like front.

14:30 UT  E Limb	Very faint loop front, barely discernible in C3.

21:54 UT  S west	Couple of very faint blob-like fronts start to 
			be discernible.
				

2008/05/05 (Monday)

Last C2 image available by the time of writing:  12:06 UT.


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