
LASCO Activity Report for
July 22, 2005 SOHO Science Daily Meeting
Planner: K. Schenk, G. Stenborg
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
2005/07/21 (Thursday)
03:54 UT HALO The event was first seen in C2 at 03:54 UT as a very
bright loop-like front spanning all above the NW, N
Pole, NE, and E Limb. Faint and diffuse extensions can
be seen all around the C2 occulting disk, though they
are extremely faint above the S Pole. The main loop
front develops in the C2 FOV toward N with its legs
apparently anchored on the W and ESE limbs. The event
is first seen in C3 at 04:18 UT, very bright on NE,
with faint and diffuse circular extensions already
surrounding completely the C3 occulting disk. The mean-
plane-of-sky speed for different features of the event
at several position angles is given below (based on C3
data):
- LE of the diffuse front at:
PA 000: 1484 km/sec
PA 035: 1471 km/sec
PA 180: 1230 km/sec (LE rather faint and diffuse)
PA 275: 1160 km/sec (LE rather faint and diffuse)
- LE of the bright loop front developing mainly
toward NE, at PA 040: 1160 km/sec
showing practically no acceleration (in all cases).
GOES reported extremely low X-ray activity during the
day (A-class). The disk of the Sun is spotless.
Likewise, EIT 195 images do not show any significant
activity on the disk. Only likely signature of the
event is an extremely faint intensity disturbance that
seems to propagate all above the limb in the northern
hemisphere starting at around 03:24 UT. In summary,
the event has therefore been classified as a strong
full halo event, backsided.
08:54 UT N West Extremely faint and wide loop front. Not discernible
in C3.
09:08 UT N East Faint and diffuse front folloqed at 10:06 by an (slightly
brighter) elongated loop front. The latter fades
throughout C3. Gusty outflow.
12:30 UT N Pole Diffuse jet-like front.
13:31 UT W Limb Ragged loop front.
15:00 - 17:00 UT No LASCO C2 images.
High cadence C3 PBs images for the Faraday
Rotation Study with Cassini Campaign.
17:07 UT N West Extremely faint loop front that fades throughout C2.
18:06 UT W Limb Diffuse front that fades throughout C3. It is followed
at 19:31 UT by a very faint, diffuse, and wide loop
front all over the S Pole, which seems to develop
apparently fully surrounding the C2 occulting disk.
Barely discernible in C3, and only close to the inner
edge of its FOV.
18:30 UT N East Very faint and diffuse loop-like front. It fades
throughout C3.
23:30 UT W Limb Initially bright ragged loop front with structured
interior.
2005/07/22 (Friday)
01:54 UT N East Very faint and elongated loop-like front.
02:30 UT S East Extremely faint and wide loop front.
06:30 UT N East Ragged blob-like front in the gusty outflow.
09:54 UT E Limb Diffuse and elongated loop-like front.
Time of the last C2 image under analysis: 12:30 UT.
Web curator:
K.M.Schenk
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar Physics Branch / Code 682
Greenbelt, MD 20771