  Aql X-1 was observed in a Low Intensity State (LIS), a state that is usually
characterized by high optical but low X-ray flux. Our daily monitoring of the
source using the 1.3m telescope in Cerro Tololo Inter-America Observatory
operated by the Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System (SMARTS)
was used to trigger a series of target-of-opportunity (ToO) observations of the
source using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer satellite (RXTE). The X-ray colors
and temporal variability studies suggest that the source was in a powerlaw
dominated state featuring high rms variability in the lightcurve and dominance
of hard photons during this LIS. The ToO observations were continued until the
source made a transition to the canonical thermal dominated or high/soft state.
