Polar Imaging Plans

• Polar Imaging Plan for days 360-01 December 26 - January 1, 1998
  Polar optical conjunctions on days 361, 362 and Jan 1
  Geotail in plasma sheet on day 362
• Polar Imaging Plan for Days 353-359 December 13-25
  Polar optical conjunctions on days 353 and 355
• Polar Imaging Plan for Days 346-352 December 12-18
  Polar optical conjunctions on day 346,347, 349 and 350
  Day 352 (The 12th) has interesting Polar conjunctions with many other satellites.
• Polar Imaging Plan for Days 339-346 December 5-11
  POLAR opbital conjunctions on days 340 and 341
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 332-338 November 28 - December 4
  POLAR OPTICAL CONJUNCTIONS on days 332, 334, 335, and 337
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 325-331 November 21-27
  POLAR OPTICAL CONJUNCTIONS days 326, 328, 329, 331
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 318-324 November 14-20
  POLAR OPTICAL CONJUNCTIONS: days 318, 320, 321, 323
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 310-317 November 6-13
  POLAR OPTICAL CONJUNCTIONS: days 310, 311, 312, 313, 315, and 317
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 303-309 October 30 November 5
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 296-302 October 23-29
  Note on day 302, Interbal Taill will be in the central tail region.
  Note 2 on day 298 (October 25) the FAST footprint will be in the POLAR/VIS field of view from 03:02 to 03:17.
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 289 - 295 October 16 - 22
  Note: Some of the imagers will be off for part of this interval
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 282 - 288 October 9 - 15
  Note POLAR will "Flip" on 10/12-13 and the imagers and some other instruments will be non operational for various periods before and after the "flip".
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 274 -281 October 1 - 8
• There is another WIND perigee pass (~15 Re downstream) on day 273 (Spetmeber 30) and Geotail is also passing through the central tail region at about 10 Re.
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 268-273 September 25 - 30 period of 257-266, very good FAST conjunctions during this period
• September 18 (97261) FAST fp in VIS fov 06:04 to 06:21, at 6:13 fp in pcap in UVI fov, at 6:10 fp in sunlite cusp in VIS fov. **
• September 17 (97260) FAST fp in VIS fov 12:24 to 12:35, at 12:31 fp in sunlite cusp in UVI fov. **
• September 16 (97259) FAST fp in VIS fov 0:57 to 1:11, 1:05 fp in 21 mlt oval in UVI fov.**
• September 16 (97259) FAST fp in VIS fov 18:43 to 18:57 in pcap and evening oval, 18:49 fp in UVI fov in 16 mlt oval. Most of oval not sunlite. **
• September (15) 97258 07:11 to 07:22 FAST fp in VIS fov, 7:12 fp in cusp, 7:13 to 7:22 in polarcap, 7:17 in UVI fov.
• September 14 (97257) 13:33 FAST fp in UVI fov in cusp, near terminator, in VIS fov in polarcap until 13:38. **
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 261-267 September 18 - 24
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 247-260 September 4 -17
  Please note that there is another WIND perigee pass on 251-252 (September 7-8) with an excellant configuration of spacecraft towards the end of 252 with GEOTAIL around the centre of the tail and IMP-8 in the northern lobe - POLAR will be imaging the midnight region for as long as possible so hopefully if there are substorms this will turn into an excellent ISTP period - I will be submitting this as a SPOT.
• 97256 (Sept 13) 02:05 FAST foot print in UVI fov in 21 mlt oval.
• 97256 19:52 (Sept 13) FAST foot print in UVI fov in 18 mlt oval.
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 233-246 August 28 - September 3
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 233-239 August 21-27
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 226-232 August 14-20
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 219-225 August 7-13
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 212-218 (July 31- Aug 6)
• 97206 (July 25) 17:37 to 17:44 FAST fp in UVI fov in polar cap to 6mlt oval,good interval.
• 97205 (July 24) 23:55 FAST fp in UVI fov in polar cap near midnight, good/fair interval.
• 97205 (July 24) 06:07 FAST fp in UVI fov in 2mlt oval.
• 97204 (July 23) 12:24 FAST fp in UVI fov in 6mlt oval.
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 204-211July 22 - 30
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 190-203July 9 - 22
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 177-189June 26 - July 8
• period of 176-182, (June 25 - July 1) a few poor FAST conjunctions during this period
• 97175 (June 24) 18:34 FAST footprint in UVI fov in cusp, VIS sees the FAST footprint from 18:25 to 18:36 in pcap and cusp.
• 97175 (June 24) 00:42 FAST footprint in UVI fov, VIS sees the FAST footprint in both oval and pcap from 00:40 to 0:57, at 00:55 both the POLAR and FAST footprint converge on the model oval near 7mlt.
• 97174 (June 23) 06:59 FAST footprint in UVI fov on dawn oval, VIS sees the FAST footprint from 6:50 to 7:03 as it tracks along the midnight to dawn oval, excellent interval.
• 97173 (June 22) 13:16 both POLAR and FAST footprints lie within the UVI fov on the 8 mlt portion of the oval, oval dark.
• 97172 (June 21) 19:33 both POLAR and FAST footprints lie within the UVI fov in pcap, FAST fp enters cusp at 19:35.
• 97172 (June 21) 01:43 FAST footprint on 23 mlt oval in UVI fov, VIS sees footprint in both oval and pcap from 1:40 to 1:55.
• 97171 (June 20) 7:56 FAST footprint in UVI fov on dawnside of oval, VIS sees footprint from 7:49 to 8:02 as FAST fp tracks along midnight and dawn side of oval, excellent interval.
• 97170 (June 19) 14:18 FAST footprint in 9 mlt oval in UVI fov, VIS sees footprint in both oval and pcap from 14:10 to 14:23.
• 97169 (June 18) 2:45 Fast footprint in 23 mlt oval in UVI fov, VIS sees FAST footprint in both oval and pcap from 2:38 to 2:54.
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 170-176 June 19-25
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 163-169 June 12-18
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 156-163 June 5-12
• 97149 (May 30) 23:30 FAST footprint in polar cap in UVI fov, VIS sees FAST footprint cross cap to about 23:40 UT.
• 97149 (May 29) 05:40 FAST footprint in 1 mlt oval in UVI fov, VIS sees FAST footprint travel along morning oval up to 5:55 UT.
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 149-155 May 28-June 4
• 97148 (May 28) 12:00 FAST footprint in 8 mlt oval in UVI fov.
• 97147 (May 27) 18:20 FAST footprint in cusp ~12 mlt in UVI fov.
• 97147 (May 27) 00:30 FAST footprint in UVI fov in polar cap,in VIS fov across both oval and polar cap, good interval.
• 97146 (May 26) 06:38 FAST footprint ~3mlt ovalin UVI fov, FAST footprint travels
• 97145 (May 25) 13:01 FAST and POLAR footprint in UVI fov, ~9mlt. along the morning side oval, good interval.
• 97144 (May 24) 19:18 FAST footprint in cusp in UVI fov.
• 97144 (May 24) 01:21 FAST footprint ~21 mlt oval in UVI fov,in VIS fov across both oval and polar cap, good interval
• 97143 (May 23) 07:37 FAST footprint ~3mlt oval in UVI fov, FAST footprint travels along the morning side oval, good interval.
• 97142 (May 22) 14:00 FAST footprint ~9mlt oval in UVI fov.
• 97142 (May 22) 13:43 97142 14:20 21mlt/9mlt oval dark
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 142-148 May 22-28
• 97141 (May 21) 02:22 FAST footprint in midnight oval,near horizon,UVI fov.
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 135-141 May 15-21
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 128-134 May 8-14
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 121-127
• 97123 (May 3) 10:30 -FAST footprint in UVI fov 12 in ovla (dark) 6 mlt **excelent
• 97122 (May 2) 16:50 - FAST footprint in UVI fov 12 mlt(dark), cusp
• 97121 (May 1) 23:07 - 23:11 FAST footprint in UVI fov in cups AND VIS fov
• 97121 (May 1) 05:09 - FAST footprint in UVI fov in oval (dark) 3 mlt
• 97120 (April 30) 11:58 - FAST footprint in UVI fov in oval (dark) 6 mlt
• 97119 (April 29) 17:47 - FAST footprint in UVI fov 12 mlt(dark), cusp
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 113-120
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 106-112
• Modified Plan for days 86-90 with real time viewing for Hale-Bopp
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 94-103
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 85-93
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 71-84
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 64-70
• Polar Imaging Plan for days 57-63 (97)
• Planned MSX POLAR observations for February 1997
• List calculated 10/31/96
• From the 11/1/96 update
• From the 11/12/96 update

• Polar viewing Oval / Fast over Poker Flat December 1 - March 1, 1997
  calculated by the Polar Project 11/27/96
• Polar viewing Oval / Fast over Svalbard December 1 - March 1, 1997
  calculated by the Polar Project 11/27/96