LASCO Activity Report for
August 16, 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

2002/08/15

02:06 UT  E Limb	Spray-like front, quite wide and faint.
			Slight cavity follows

18:06 UT  W Limb	Very faint loop front fades through C2

22:30 UT  N West	Fairly wide bright asymmetric front with 
			cavity and some trailing material. Possibly
			distinct events involved

2002/08/16

00:30 UT  N East	Narrow faint loop front fades rapidly

03:30 UT  S East	Narrow spray

05:30 UT  S West	Narrow spray

06:06 UT  W Limb 	Wide bright loop front from SW to NW,
			fast event with slight cavity and some
			trailing material. M2.7 AR0061 N06W91

08:54 UT  S East	Very narrow spray

11:06 UT  S East	Narrow spray

12:30 UT  HALO		Full halo CME in progress, only 2 images
			before data gap. Brightest in SW, bright
			from SW to N pole, fainter elsewhere.
			Fast event, 1404 km/s based on limited
			data available at time of writing.
			M5 flare AR0069 S07E16. DSN data gap after 
			13:50 UT

	C2 Running Diference movie