Observing Program of the BWGS
Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@unicall.be)
Fri, 5 Dec 1997 16:57:53 GMT
Observing Program of the BWGS
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The Belgian Working Group Satellites has been active in collecting flash
period measurements since 1987. Our priority list contains over 300
satellites.
New in the E-mail archive : Overview of BWGS program (including recent
observations)
Send a message with Subject: archive get program/program.*
to SeeSat-L-request@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de
Send a message with Subject: archive get program/satdec97.txt
to the same address, to get accompanying notes by Kurt Jonckheere (Satorama).
Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas7/ppas7-05.obs
to the same address for the latest update to PPAS 7, containing all
new PPAS-observations.
Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas7/ppas7-0?.obs
to the same address to receive all updates to PPAS 7
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SATORAMA (=satdec97.txt, observations in PPAS7-05.OBS)
Our observing programme can be found in the Program.rob file.
It is subdivided in categories, the codes of which can be found below.
b flashing object for beginners
d difficult to measure
S steady object, potentially flashing in the future
? flash period is unknown or uncertain
- long flash period (>40 s)
! top-priority object
regular object
x DRA object
Special remarks
Top-priority objects :
87- 20 B ! 17536/F2 Kosmos 1823, discovered by RO
87- 74 G ! 18340/F2 Tsyklon Kosmos 1875-1880: still accelerating !?
89- 86 B ! 20306/Meteor 3-3 R/B, flashing according to Leo Barhorst
91- 19 B ! 21153/C1 Nadezhda 3: has accelerated !!!
91- 46 A ! 21533/Gorizont 23 geosat with slowly decreasing period !
93- 15 B ! 22564/Centaur UHF1: GTO, accelerating ?
NEW objects:
73- 86 D NEW
73- 86AW NEW
86- 19AG NEW Ariane 1 debris Spot 1-Viking: difficult
96- 8 B NEW, discovered flashing by Jim Scotti
97- 47 B NEW, discoverd by Jean-Pierre Rohart
360 observations received from 11 observers :
EC: Ed Canon Austin, Texas USA
JSC: Jim Scotti Tucson, AZ, USA
JVS: Jan Vansteelandt Leuven Belgium
KJ: Kurt Jonckheere Antwerpen Belgium
LB: Leo Barhorst Alkmaar The Netherlands
LS: Lutz Schindler Braunschweig Germany
PDV: Patrick Devreese Moen Belgium
RGL: Ron Lee Falcon USA
RE: Russell Eberst, Edinburgh, Scotland
RO: Jean-Pierre Rohart Wormhout France
TC: Tristan Cools, Brugge, Belgium
Next deadline for sending in observations: January 12, 1998 to Kurt Jonckheere
Sanderusstraat 15, bus 3, B-2018 Antwerpen, Belgium
or by e-mail to ppas@lists.satellite.eu.org
All observations are appreciated very much.
If you send your observations to Seesat-L, please also send them
DIRECTLY to ppas@lists.satellite.eu.org
This is just a small amount of additional work for you,
but it makes life much easier for me.
Happy observing,
Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@unicall.be)
Observations collector of the Belgian Working Group Satellites
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Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@unicall.be) 51.2 N 2.9 E 4m ASL
(Old accelerations : http://uc2.unicall.be/kjonckheere/index.htm)
observations collector for the Belgian Working Group Satellites:
Send your observations of flashing satellites, preferrably in the correct
PPAS format to ppas@lists.satellite.eu.org
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