LASCO Activity Report for
May 21, 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

KEYHOLE Operations:
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2008/05/07 - 2008/05/25: 26 m keyhole
2008/05/11 - 2008/05/21: 34 m keyhole

- LASCO closed doors on Sunday 2008/05/18 @ 21:30 UT in prep for
  for S/C Maneuvers (SK, MM. and Roll) on 05/19.
- LASCO resumed observations on Wednesday 2008/05/21 @ 00:30 UT.

- EIT CCD Bakeout Plan: 2008/05/16 18:30 UT - 2008/05/22 05:00 UT.
  Observations will then resume on 05/22 @ ~ 16:00 UT.
  During Bakeout period: LASCO in improved synoptics ==> C2 @ 12 min
  cadence, C3 @ 30 min cadence.
  
- Between 05/16 - 05/22, LASCO will remain idle during the telemetry 
  no-record outage periods.   


2008/05/20 (Tuesday)

	LASCO doors closed (because of S/C Maneuvers on 05/19).
	

2008/05/21 (Wednesday)

First C2 image after S/C Maneuvers: 00:46 UT 
First C3 image after S/C Maneuvers: 00:50 UT 

	02:00 - 07:00 UT 	LASCO Data Gap (C2 time).
	
Last C2 image available by the time of writing:  10:12 UT
	

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