RE: Site code assignment

From: Ted Molczan via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:35:17 -0400
Pierros Papadeas asked:

> Is the COSPAR sites list somewhere publicly accessible?

To my knowledge, COSPAR last published a site list in the 1970s. I have it and several earlier ones that were published by the SAO. For many years, hobbyists have had the task of maintaining the list, most recently myself. I have several lists compiled by the late Pierre Neirinck, from whom I inherited this task. I have been working to consolidate the various lists, but much work remains to be done. Most of the oldest data is on paper or in electronic files of low to medium resolution scans. OCR of this mostly numerical data is unlikely to be reliable, so manual data entry is most practical.

What I may do is to create and publish on satobs.org an interim list, covering sites that have been active during, say, the past five years. That should satisfy the vast majority of analysts. Until then, I recommend that anyone who cannot find the co-ordinates of specific sites of interest contact me. I will respond quickly with the information for those sites.

Ted Molczan



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