Eurosom 3 programme
Bart De Pontieu ((no email))
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:36:22 -0700 (PDT)
Hi all,
The third edition of the EUROpean Satellite Observers Meeting is taking
place in Edinburgh during the weekend of October 24 & 25, 1998. Below you
find the programme (can be subject to changes). Please check out
http://www2.satellite.eu.org/eurosom3.html
for more details. Contact eurosom3@satellite.eu.org if you want to attend
and haven't registered yet.
Cheers,
Bart, bart@satellite.eu.org
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Saturday 24 October, 1998:
9:30 Introduction and Word of Welcome
Alan Pickup
9:45 Iridium satellite observation activity
Paul Maley
10:30 Coffee break
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11:00 Personal Observations on the Soviet Space Programme
Phillip Clark
12:15 Lunch break
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14:00 The Development and Prospects for the GSOC Satellite Visibility Web Site
Chris Peat
14:50 Spin ups then and now, from Starad to ETS-6
Tony Beresford
15:30 Coffee break
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16:05 Observing in Colorado
David Brierley
16:45 Two years of SatEvo decay predictions
Alan Pickup
17:30 General Discussion about popularizing/organizing satellite observing
everyone?
18:00 End of first day
Sunday 25 October, 1998
9:30 Conversion of rotation angular momentum for tumbling satellites
Mike McCants
10:10 Hard- and software Tools for observing
Brian Hunter
10:30 Coffee break
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11:00 Documentation of satellite activity using low light level video 1997-98
Paul Maley
12:00 Lunch Break
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13:45 Flash period Accelerations
Kurt Jonckheere
14:15 Satellites observed by the TRACE satellite
Bart De Pontieu
14:35 CCD-photography of the ASTRA satellites
Bruno Tilgner
15:10 Coffee break
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15:40 Rotation Axis of Superbird
Rob Matson (?)
16:25 The Millennium Rock onboard MIR
Phill Parker
16:40 What's in a name? -- Satellite Designations
Russell Eberst
17:00 End of Eurosom 3
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