SXT Status Report
                       26 June - 02 June 1995 (Week 26)
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                                David Alexander
                                   01-Jul-95

Another week of me as Chief Observer goes by and the satellite is still in
orbit.  Impressive or what? It has been a quiet week both at the Sun and here
in Japan.  My big excitement for the week was seeing a man park his van in
an alley-way (yes! it's been a slow news week folks!).  What was amazing about
this was that there was a lamp-post about 4 feet in front of the entrance to 
the alley.  And he backed in!  

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If people could park like that in Montana we would have more room to rope cows.

Oh, and it is still raining!   

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SOLAR ACTIVITY

	The activity level was low with one major active region  (AR 7882), 
dominating the PFI observations.  The low solar activity provides us with
an excellent opportunity to study the quiet corona using the great
versatility of the SXT. 


SXT INSTRUMENT STATUS

     The SXT instrument continues to be in great working order.    


CALIBRATION STATUS

	The offpoint terminator program continues with many
        terminator images taken this week.  The diligence of
        the SSOC tohbans helps make this a successful program.    


PASS CONFLICTS

	We lost a total of 6 passes due to conflicts with ASCA.


SCIENCE

       Alexander's work with Katsev (at MSU) on the effects of projection 
       on SXT images was written up for submission.  One interesting result
       is that a homogeneous loop (uniform density and temperature) when
       viewed from a longitudinal angle of around 45 degrees produces the 
       appearance of a bright source at the top of the loop.

SEMINARS

       There was no Yohkoh seminar this week due to the absence of 
       both organisers (Hudson-san and Shibata-san).


PERSONNEL

       Both Carl Foley and Sam Krucker left after what we hope was 
       a productive visit to ISAS.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

        There is nothing new under the Sun but there are lots of old
        things we don't know yet.
                           Ambrose Pierce

Week 26 Tohbans:
   SSOC: Sawa and Shinoda
   KSC:  Sano and Fujiki
SXT Chief Observer:
   D. Alexander
SXT Systems and Data Engineer:
   G. Linford