Sue Wheatley wrote The Astronomical League's observing program for Earth Orbiting Satellites: > I've done many of their > other observing programs and learned a lot, so I thought I > would try the Satellite program. Turns out one cannot use a > NOSS tandem sighting for the program. The administrator > apologized that it is "my problem, Sue, not yours." The a > dministrator must verify that your sighting is real, and he > can't verify something he can't admit is there? Looks like a worthwhile program: http://www.rmss.org/eosoc/EOSOC_Intro.htm I see that the administrator is in the Colorado Springs area, which leads me to suspect that he may have some ties to the folks who track these things for a living. Let' see what google turns up. Here's something from 1999: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Apr-1999/0163.html My response was: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Apr-1999/0173.html Anyway, the Astronomical League does appear to have a good program, and their exclusion of U.S. spy sats is understandable given their circumstances. Ted Molczan ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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