LASCO Activity Report for
August 18, 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

Venus now visible in C2 images, moving R-L in N.
Image times more irregular than usual due to
specialist Venus observations

2003/08/15

02:06 UT  W Limb	Narrow bright spray

	02:06 - 05:30 UT	Temporary DSN data gap

05:30 UT  E Limb	Faint spray-like front, another at 15:30

13:31 UT  S West	Ragged fronts along streamer

2003/08/16

05:54 UT  S East	Bright narrow jet

13:31 UT  N West	Fairly narrow fan-like front with some 
			trailing material

20:29 UT  S West	Ragged asymmetric front with prolonged
			outflow including some fronts

2003/08/17

16:11 UT  PARTIAL	Very slow faint ragged front in SE eventually
	  HALO		spans ~180 deg from NE to SW by 03:06 UT
			next day. No EIT data ~15-17 UT so not 
			possible to establish origin. Faster brighter
			'core-like' region follows at 08:54 in E

2003/08/18

03:06 UT  W Limb	Bright asymmteric front with cavity. Slower
			fainter ragged loop front follows at 08:54