LASCO Activity Report for
August 9, 2002 SOHO Science Daily Meeting

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

C2 high-cadence pB sequence campaign now running.
C2 pB sequences being taken every hour at the expense
of 1 normal C2 image and 1 normal C3 image.
Campaign runs to 2002/08/12.

Planet Mars is now in C3's field of view, moving L to R

SOHO comets now total 497. Perihelion of SOHO-500 imminent?

2002/08/08

05:42 UT  S West	Narrow loop front along streamer

09:30 UT  N West	Faint narrow front along streamer, fades

10:06 UT  S West	Moderately bright spray-like front
			along same streamer. Slight cavity,
			smaller similar event at 11:42

14:06 UT  E Limb	Extremely faint loop front 

17:06 UT  N East	Narrow bright front along streamer
			shortly followed by

17:30 UT  N West	Thin initially bright loop front with
			cavity, fades through C2

19:31 UT  HALO		Very faint full halo CME visible all around
			occulting disk. Backsided event

21:42 UT  S West	Large blob

2002/08/09

04:30 UT  S East	Narrow ragged front along streamer

08:06 UT  N West	Moderately wide faint front with cavity