LASCO Activity Report for
December 26, 2003 SOHO Science Daily Meeting

Planner: K. Schenk, G. Lawrence

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

Bright sungrazing comet visible through whole of both
C2 and C3 fields of view on 2003/12/24. Head is slightly
saturated and tail is long and well-defined

Bright sungrazing comet visible through whole of C3 field 
of view on 2003/12/25, and midway through C2. Short tail 
follows small bright head


2003/12/23

00:06 UT  S East	Faint jet

02:06 UT  S West	Faint narrow front fades through C2

08:54 UT  W Limb	Narrow ragged front with slight cavity

15:06 UT  S East	Very faint spray

2003/12/24

11:30 UT  N West	Extremely faint ragged front fades through C2

22:06 UT  W Limb	Extremely faint loop front fades through C2

2003/12/25

02:06 UT  HALO		Faint loop front in W is very faint full halo
			CME by 02:30. Fairly fast event is brightest 
			in W and extremely faint in W. Further loop 
			front follow in S from 02:54. Most probably
			backsided

08:54 UT  W Limb	Faint nebulous loop front fades somewhat
			through C2. Further similar fronts follow
			from 11:08

16:30 UT  S West	Bright narrow ragged front along streamer,
			some gusty outflow follows

2003/12/26

05:30 UT  N East	Very faint narrow ragged front along streamer,
			faint gusty semi-steady outflow follows for
			prolonged period 

19:31 UT  N West	Very faint narrow ragged front, further
			similar events follow

Web curator: K.M.Schenk
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar Physics Branch / Code 682
Greenbelt, MD 20771