Planning week 08-15 Aug 2020

This is a regular planning week with three uploads. I was training Emily Mason this week, so she did most of the work.

The week began with three high-latitude active regions in the northern hemisphere. The default AR was 12770 at the start of the week, which was the leftmost of the three. It was tracked for all three OPs and it produced some B and C-flares. It developed an S-shaped filament so I thought there was a chance it could erupt.

There was a quite a good view of the north coronal hole during the week, so several observations were scheduled. The HOPs were the regular 79, 349, 336 and 393.

Interesting observations for me were:

• The Cool_Loop_Response study was run on Saturday and Sunday on a sunspot while it was close to the central meridian, so should be quite good views of the loops.
  
• The north coronal hole was observed on three days using the large DHB_006 raster. SOT supported with a large SP scan, and XRT with Al-Poly/Be-thin at 5min cadence.
  

Saturday 08 August (OP1)

AIA 193 image

AR 12770 had a small sunspot, so I scheduled Cool_loop_response to look at the footpoints around the spot. Three runs at 12:43, 14:23 and 16:01 were scheduled.

The first of two runs of DHB_006 (very large abundance raster) was run at 20:57 on AR 12770.

Sunday 09 August (OP1)

AIA 193 image

The second DHB_006 was run at 00:13 UT.

A SYNOP008 (sensitivity monitoring) was run during HOP 349 at disk center beginning 03:25 UT.

HPW021VEL260x512v2 was run on AR 12770 at 09:59, and then three more runs of Cool_Loop_Response at 11:42, 13:20 and 14:58 UT.

Jeff Brosius's TimeLag_quietAR_QS was run at 18:34 for about 6 hours on AR 12770 (note it runs through the eclipses).

Monday 10 August (OP1)

AIA 193 image

The Hinode coalignment study was run at 14:02 (north) and 16:02 (east).

The north coronal hole was quite extended so two of three DHB_006 studies were run at 22:02 and 23:45 UT.

Tuesday 11 August (OP1)

AIA 193 image

Tuesday 11 August (OP2)

AIA 193 image

AR 12770 continued to be tracked, with an Atlas_60 at 12:48 UT. This was followed by Cool_Loop_Response at 14:28 and 16:10 UT, HPW021 at 18:10, and TimeLag_quietAR_QS at 20:25 (2.5 hour run).

The ALMA campaign was postponed to 7-Jan so I supported with 7 rasters between 12:32 and 14:32 UT. UPDATE: the ALMA observation was canceled.

The PSP connection test continued with Large_CH_map. Two pointings were used. An extension of the north coronal hole was used at 15:02 UT. An east limb pointing was using at 16:47 UT.

Wednesday 12 August (OP2)

AIA 193 image

A test of the new study CH_FunnelsFIP was run at 02:02 during HOP 349 at disk center.

AR 12770 was observed with HPW021 at 06:48 and 08:26 UT.

The co-alignment program was run again at 19:01 (north) and 21:43 UT (east).

The north coronal hole was observed again with the first of two DHB_006 studies at 23:19 UT.

Thursday 13 August (OP2)

AIA 193 image

The second DHB_006 study was run at 00:50 UT.

Two HPW021 studies were run on AR 12770 at 06:13 and 07:23 UT.

Thursday 13 August (OP3)

AIA 193 image

Friday 14 August (OP3)

AIA 193 image

HOP 79 continued till about 03:20 UT. SYNOP008 was run during HOP349 at 04:43 UT.

AR 12770 was observed with three runs of HPW021 at 06:31, 07:59, 09:38 and 11:15; one run of Atlas_60 at 12:53, and two more runs of HPW021 at 14:34 and 16:16 UT.

The north coronal hole was observed again with DHB_006 at 18:13, 19:35 and 21:13 UT.

HOP 393 (equatorial transition) was supported at 22:56 UT with Large_CH_Map.

Saturday 15 August (OP3)

AIA 193 image

We took advantage of the HOP 393 ponting to run TimeLag_quietAR_QS for an hour at 00:26 UT near disk center.

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