BWGS Observing Program (July 96)
Bart De Pontieu (BDP@MPEPL)
Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:55:36 +0100 (CET)
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 200
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@iris01.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de
Send a message with Subject: archive get program/satjul96.txt
to the same address, to get accompanying notes by Kurt Jonckheere (Satorama).
Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas/ppas6-03.obs
to the same address for the first update to PPAS 6, which contains all
new PPAS-observations.
Or ftp these files anonymously from ftp.physics.ox.ac.uk in the directory
/pub/sat/bwgs
Our program can also be found on the World Wide Web at this URL:
http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bdp/sat/programrob.html
Priority codes :
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 additional code for DRA project
Changes in this month's program :
65- 8 A 1001/Transtage 3,Titan 3A: no acceleration anymore
79- 30 B b 11327/C1 Kosmos 1092: going up
82- 40 J bx 13168/C1 Kosmos 1357-1364: to be observed again
85- 55 B d 15874/Centaur Intelsat 5A-F11: GTO; flashing confirmed by BD
86- 19 B ? 16614/Viking 1: more observations needed
87- 27 B b 17590/C1 Kosmos 1833 : has accelerated and is going up again
90-111 B 21015/C1 Kosmos 2112: period going up again ?
92- 8 B x 21876/C1 Kosmos 2180: going up
96- 24 B 23852/MSX r; NEW, to be checked
96- 25 B 23854/C 2332 r; flashing according to JEV
96- 29 A NEW, NOSS 2-3
96- 29 B NEW, NOSS 2-3 rocket
96- 29 C NOSS 2-3 Triad
96- 31 B NEW, MSTI-3 rocket
96- 38 A NEW, Titan 4 (classified payload) flashing
96- 38 B NEW, Titan 4 (perigee kick motor) flashing
Observers of June 1996
BD: Bram Dorreman, Achel, Belgium
JEV: Jim Varney, Sacramento, California, USA
KD: Kurt Dequick, Bredende, Belgium
KJ: Kurt Jonckheere, Oostende, Belgium
LB: Leo Barhorst, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
PS: Patrick Schmeer, Saarbruecken-Bischmisheim, Germany
RE: Russell Eberst, Edinburgh, Scotland
TC: Tristan Cools, Brugge, Belgium
WPK: Willie Koorts, Wellington, South Africa
Total number of observations: 263.
Next deadline for sending in observations: August 17, 1996.
Please send observations to obs@physics.ox.ac.uk
If you send your observations to Seesat-L, please also send them to
obs@physics.ox.ac.uk. This is just a CC: for you, but it makes live
much easier for me (KJ).
Cheers,
Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@unicall.be)
& Bart De Pontieu
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Bart De Pontieu -- Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Garching
bdp@mpe-garching.mpg.de -- http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bdp/satintro.html
Join us at Eurosom 2, Oct 19/20 1996 -- http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bdp/eurosom.html
BWGS-coordinator -- Flash editor -- SeeSat-L administrator -- would-be-observer
"This is not my idea of a good time" -- Garbage
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