LASCO Activity Report for
August 06, 2001 SOHO Science Daily Meeting

Planner: K. Schenk, G. Lawrence

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

LASCO C2 and C3 doors opened August 2, 2001 at 17:30 UT.  
Synoptic image program resumed at 21:00 UT.

Planet Mercury in Lasco C3 and C2 fields of view moving right to left.

A Sungrazing Comet is visible in the C2 and C3 images 8/4 23:18 UT till
8/5 06:54 UT.  Comet discovered by Toni Scarmato.

2001/08/03

00:30 UT  N East	Event already in progress.  Very large
			structure and possible partial HALO CME.
			Material seen from PA 280-200 degrees.

03:57 UT  N East	Bright ragged ejecta.  Jet-like event.

16:54 UT  S East	Jet with southward shift.

2001/08/04

08:06 UT  N West	Very bright loop front over limb.  Slow event.
			Large multiloopings and core.  Complex
			structures and continued outflows.
			Filament related event.
	10:56:08 UT C2 Running Difference Image.

15:30 UT  S West	Jet, narrow.

15:30 UT  N Pole	Narrow jet-like event with outflows.
			By 18:54 UT a possible second event starts, small.

2001/08/05

02:54 UT  SS West	Rising loops over limb.  Rough helmut front
			with multiple interior loopings.  Very slow.
			Event breakes free by 06:06 UT as a 
			large loop event with core and continued outflow.
			Filament related event.
	06:54:05 UT C2 Running Difference Image.

03:54 UT  NN East	Bright symetrical loop front event.
			[Notice the dark jet "absorption" ? feature
			in movie on West edge of event.]
	04:54:05 UT C2 Running Difference Image.
	04:54:05 UT C2 Running Difference Movie.

10:06 UT  S East	Jet.

10:30 UT  West Limb	Jet with continued outflows.

2001/08/06

19:31 UT  S West	Narrow jet.

21:30 UT  S West	Narrow jet with Northward shift.

2001/08/07

01:32 UT  N Pole	Small faint puff event.

06:30 UT  S East	Bright jet, narrow, fast.

		07:30 UT begins temporary DSN data gap period.
Web curator: K.M.Schenk
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar Physics Branch / Code 682
Greenbelt, MD 20771