LASCO Activity Report for
March 6, 2006 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

KEYHOLE Operations:
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* Feb 22 - Mar 21: 26 m Keyhole.
* Feb 28 - Mar 16: 34 m Keyhole.

- S/C Maneuvers scheduled for 2006/03/07 ==> LASCO safing for maneuvers on
  2006/03/06 @ 19:30 UT. LASCO recovery is scheduled for 2006/03/10 (due to 
  DSN & Mars explorer) @ 03:30 UT.

- LASCO will be running a version of the "Brueckner plumes study" of Mar 21
  1997 prior to the S/C maneuver. While SOHO is inverted (and starting on
  2006/02/28 @ 03:45 UT) LASCO will be taking 32x13 LOCS block FOV over the 
  South pole including the coronal hole. This allows an open FOV with 
  occulting pylon in the north. The sequence will be C2 orange/clear filters, 
  100 sec exp, 5 min cadence. There will remain FFFres C2 and C3 at 1 hr 
  cadence for the web and daily orange/blue fielding images and orange filter 
  pB sets. 

- EIT CCD Bakeout bewtween 2006/02/28 03:00 UT - 2006/03/18.

- TRACE performing detector annealing: 2006/02/27 - 2006/03/03.  
  Therefore, there will be no full disk mosaics during this period
  to compensate for the lack of EIT images during the bakeout period.

2006/03/03 (Friday)

09:05 UT  WS West	Narrow and relatively bright front.

16:05 UT  WS West	Faint and diffuse feature starts to be discerned 
			developing (like being pushed) toward S. It becomes
			visible in C3 by 20:35 UT on SW. By 22:05 UT (C2 time), 
			a very faint expanding loop front follows on SW. The
 			southern leg of the diffuse feature crosses the S Pole 
			by that time (the northern leg is not discernible).
			The diffuse feature continue developing such that the
			southern leg crosses the SE limb by midday (next day). 

2006/03/04 (Saturday)

11:05 UT  NN West	Diffuse jet-like front.

2006/03/05 (Sunday)

04:05 UT  S East	Faint and ragged elongated loop front. Gusty outflow
			on ESE.

2006/03/06 (Monday)

12:05 UT  N East	Diffuse loop front.

12:05 UT  W Limb	Not-ell-defined front.

Last C2 image available by the time of writing: 14:05 UT.

NOTE:
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LASCO will close doors today at ~ 19:30 UT in preparation 
for Maneuvers on 2006/03/07.