LASCO Activity Report for
May 16, 2008 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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2008/05/07 - 2008/05/25: 26 m keyhole
2008/05/11 - 2008/05/21: 34 m keyhole

- LASCO will close doors for SK and Roll on Sunday 2008/05/18 @ 13:45 UT.
- LASCO will resume observations on Wednesday 2008/05/21 @ 00:30 UT.

- EIT CCD Bakeout Plan: 2008/05/16 18:30 UT - 2008/05/22 05:00 UT.
  Observations will then resume on 05/22 @ ~ 16:00 UT.
  During Bakeout period: LASCO in improved synoptics ==> C2 @ 12 min
  cadence, C3 @ 30 min cadence.
  
- Between 05/16 - 05/22, LASCO will remain idle during the telemetry 
  no-record outage periods.   

2008/05/15 (Thursday)

04:30 UT  S East	Faint and asymmetric expanding loop front. Barely
			discernible in C3, and only close to its inner 
			edge.

06:30 UT  E Limb	Bright elongated loop-like front slightly
			toward ENE. It fades throughout C3.

12:30 UT  N East	Spray-like front.			
	

2008/05/16 (Friday)

	02:54 - 06:06 UT	LASCO Data Gap (C2 time).

06:06 UT  S East	Ragged elongated loop already under development.
		
Last C2 image available by the time of writing:  09:06 UT.