LASCO Activity Report for
January 30, 2003 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

Comet C/2002 X5 (Kudo-Fujikawa) is now visible in the
C3 field of view. A special observing campaign is in
progress, through 2003/01/31.

Synoptic observations will be modified during this period.

2003/01/29

00:39 UT  S East	Faint thin well-defined loops begin to rise
			extremely slowly along bright streamer

00:39 UT  N East	Brightest of several extremely faint loop
			fronts spanning up to N pole

02:39 UT  S East	Narrow ragged front along streamer

04:39 UT  N West	Ragged loop front, quite wide, spans up to
			N pole. Some trailing material 

15:06 UT  N East	Very faint spray

18:39 UT  W Limb	Faint nebulous front

2003/01/30

01:25 UT  W Limb	Very faint jet, slow

09:39 UT  Halo		Faint ragged front on NW develops to bright
			bright loop front systems in NW and W and
			ragged front in S by 10:06, then full halo
			CME with complex morphology by 11:39 though
			emission in E is faint. Huge EIT filament
			eruption from NE to NW beginning ~06 UT