LASCO Activity Report for
October 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

LASCO images severely degraded following the 
X18 proton flare from AR 0486 2003/10/28 and
X11 proton flare from AR 0486 2003/10/29. 

LASCO images are at irregular times and cadences
due to the impact of the proton levels on the
instrument's telemetry buffer

2003/10/29

20:54 UT  HALO		Bright front in S is fast bright full halo CME
			by 21:08. X11 X-ray flare AR 0486 S18W06.
			Proton levels raised again

2003/10/30

01:51 UT  E Limb        Bright spray-like front, quite wide

10:23 UT  S East        Narrow loop front with some gusty outflow