LASCO Activity Report for
August 14, 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

Perihelion time now confirmed. Congratulations to Diane McIlhiney,
whose guess was within 3 hours of the actual perihelion time.

Movie of SOHO-500 now available at Doug Biesecker's comet observations web page.

Planet Mars is now in C2's field of view, moving L to R

2002/08/13

04:30 UT  N East	Further ragged fronts along same streamer,
			fainter than previous event 

08:30 UT  N East	Thick wide bright loop front with cavity and
			bright structured core, along same streamer	
			as previous events

14:54 UT  S East	Sequence of fairly bright wide loop fronts,
			quite slow. Brightest material over E limb.
			Possible extremely faint extensions over
			S pole and to W limb. Backsided event

22:30 UT  N East	Narrow ragged front along streamer

2002/08/14

02:06 UT  Partial	Wide bright loop front in NW spans ~150 deg
	  Halo		by 02:54. Cavity and core and some gusty
			outflow follow. M2.3 flare in AR0061 N09W54

02:06 UT  N East	Faint loop front, bright over N pole due
			to integration effects with partial halo.
			Slight cavity follows

10:54 UT  S East	Fairly narrow loop front along streamer,
			cavity follows