
LASCO Activity Report for
May 5, 2008 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
2008/05/02 (Friday)
06:30 UT N West Small ragged front that disintegrates through C2.
10:30 UT S West Slow development of a system of faint loop fronts.
Difficult to give an exact time of first appearance.
First seen in C3 at 12:42 UT, followed at 16:18 UT
by an elongated expanding loop front. Its WIDTH in
the C3 FOV at 01:42 UT (the next day) is: ~ 65 deg.
2008/05/03 (Saturday)
03:54 UT WS West Couple of small ragged fronts .
10:33 UT SS West Elongated fan-like front (top of a very narrow
loop front that fades throughout C2).
16:06 UT WS West Extremely faint ragged front. First seen in C3
at 19:42 UT. It fades throughout C3.
17:30 UT N East Faint jet-like front.
2008/05/04 (Sunday)
05:30 - 09:54 UT LASCO Data Gap (C2 time).
11:30 UT S West Elongated spray-like front.
14:30 UT E Limb Very faint loop front, barely discernible in C3.
21:54 UT S west Couple of very faint blob-like fronts start to
be discernible.
2008/05/05 (Monday)
Last C2 image available by the time of writing: 12:06 UT.
Web curator:
K.M.Schenk
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar Physics Branch / Code 682
Greenbelt, MD 20771