Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:43:48 -0500
From: David Rust <david.rust@jhuapl.edu>
Subject: Flare Genesis Update - January 24 

By 0000 UT on January 26 the telescope should be in line-of-sight contact with our ground station. Everything is working well now, and enough contact is now possible through INMARSAT that we can change the target. By 2200 on Jan 24 Flare Genesis will switch to the filament study program and repoint to N06 W05, reference time 1905 UT Jan 23, Julian Date 2451567.3. There is a small active region there just east of a long filament. This is the kind of situation that sometimes results in a filament eruption. FGE will run on this region for at least 24 hours. When line-of-sight contact is achieved, we plan to run some calibrations and then turn to a growing active region. Projected end of mission is 1000 UT January 27.

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