
LASCO Activity Report for
December 7, 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
3 new Kreutz comets observed recently, taking the total to 379.
Details can be found at Doug Biesecker's comet observations page.
Mercury is in C2's field of view, moving right to left.
2001/12/06
04:30 UT N West Another faint ragged front already in progress,
fades through C2
04:54 UT N East Bright jet, quite slow
14:54 UT N West Very narrow front along streamer, another at 17:54
19:54 UT S West Faint front along streamer
23:30 UT S East Very faint loop front fades through C2
2001/12/07
01:54 UT N East Bright loop front with cavity, along streamer,
follows extremely faint, slow loops
02:30 UT S West Bright loop front with cavity and loop core,
along streamer
03:30 UT N West Very faint, fast, wide loop front, crosses pole.
Some brighter core-like material follows,
especially over pole
10:30 UT S East Fairly narrow bright front with cavity and
small knotted core
11:54 - 13:54 UT Temporary data gap
14:06 UT N West Wide bright front along streamer with cavity
and core. EIT eruptive prominence? Quite slow
Web curator:
K.M.Schenk
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar Physics Branch / Code 682
Greenbelt, MD 20771