What's new on the VSO's Home Page

May 19, 2004: added a link to Bill Keel's excellent compilation of telescopic images of Apollo spacecraft, to our Telescopic Satellite Observations page.

May 9, 2004: added several pages describing the positional reporting formats used by observers.

May 8, 2004: updated the Satellite Re-entries page, to include the decay of Raduga 33, observed from Canada and the U.S.A.

January 15, 2004: updated and expanded NOSS Double and Triple Satellite Formations page.

January 5, 2004: updated Observing Geostationary Satellites page.

January 5, 2004: updated Satellite Re-entries page.

January 3, 2004: updated and expanded Starshine page.

January 3, 2004: updated Satellite Related Software page.

January 3, 2004: updated Tracking Programs and TLE Resources page.

December 5, 2003: updated SeeSat-L Members Page.

August 4, 2003: Added ObsReduce 1.0 software page.

March 2, 2003: Added STS 107 Mystery Object page.

February 17, 2003: Added Could Columbia have been Imaged by a Keyhole? page.

September 21, 2001: Added Project Starshine page.

September 19, 2001: Moved the pages to a new server and changed the directory structure considerably. For the new links, drop the 'sat/vsohp/' part from the old links, as well as the '/sat/' part of all other links that are not in the vsohp subdirectory.

May 26, 2001: Added Western Satellite Research Network Report.

January 15, 2001: Added Iridium Satellite Photos.

December 18, 2000: Retired Where to get Orbital Elements as most links were dead and it is duplicated by Tracking Programs & TLE Resources.

October 31, 2000: Added International Space Station Communications from Chris van den Berg.

September 18, 2000: Added Beginner's Observing Guide.

February 11, 2000: Added Harro Zimmers' Starshine Decay Report.

January 22, 2000: Added NOSS Triplets page.

January 13, 2000: Added Optical Calibration Sphere Experiment (OCSE).

September 2, 1998: Added SeeSat-L Volunteers Retrieve OIG Elsets.

August 22, 1998: Added Mir and Its Objectives.

April 20, 1998: Added Breakdown of Orbital Elements.

April 15, 1998: Added Iridium Flare Photo page.

April 13, 1998: Added Tentative Retirement Plans for Mir page.

April 8, 1998: Added Observing Centaur Rocket Boosters page.

March 20, 1998: Added EUROSOM 3 announcement page.

March 19, 1998: Added "sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe" News Group announcement page.

March 5, 1998: Added Spy Satellite page.

February 19, 1998: Added SeeSat-L FAQ page.

January 28, 1998: Added Request For Discussion (RFD) for the proposed Usenet. group sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe (CFV closed-removed from satintro.html page on March 12, 1998)

January 12, 1998: Added "See NEAR's Sunglint Maneuver" scheduled for Jan 23,1998 for the US.

October 23, 1997: The The Visual Satellite Observer Home Page has been revised. Changes include:

Filing of the archived SeeSat-L posts have been revised on the "WWW Archive of SeeSat-L" pointer.

Now ALL archived posts are grouped into monthly files and can be sorted either by date, author or thread back to the year 1995 (except for a few months in 1995).

Added the complete archive of SeeSat-L in zipped format in the "SeeSat-L (mailing list for visual satellite observers) home page" pointer.

Updated "Working Group for Satellites from Belgium (BWGS) home page".

Updated "Overview of Observing Program of the BWGS".

Updated "Recent Observations of Observing Program of the BWGS".

Updated "Photometric Periods of Artificial Satellites Database".

September 9, 1997: Created a page Iridium Flares which provides background information on the Iridium satellite.

August 19, 1997: Created a page Satellite Encounters that describes close encounters some satellites have had and a PC Program that can be used to predict your own 'close encounters'.

June 18, 1997: Revised and updated the Satellite Re-entry and Upcoming Satellite Re-entry pages. Added URLs for Alan Pickup's web site and moved Bjoern Gimle's web site URL to the Satellite Re-entry page.

April 8, 1997: Created a page to introduce newcomers to some of the brighter satellites that can be observed and also provided some information resources. Supporting this page is a list of "100 (or so) Brighter Satellites" that Jay Respler maintains as an elset. The list is sorted by inclination.

February 6, 1997: Created a page for the International Space Station and the first three elements that will make up the ISS complex.

January 3, 1997: Cleaned up the front page, it has accurate new and updated symbols now. The pages about the Shuttle and MIR are now again regularly updated by Jeff Hunt. The predictions in Garching are of a new format, using Quicksat. Mike McCants will oversee those. We hope to employ the new format in Oxford soon as well. Added a few links to two new pages about accelerations and tools for element sets.

September 20, 1996 : We hope to update most of our pages in the coming weeks!

September 19, 1996 : Changed the Eurosom 2 page. Updated program and list of abstracts are available now!

April 25, 1996 : Changed and updated the PPAS-page. The brand-new version 6 of the Photometric Periods Database is now online !

March 24, 1996 : Added a home page for the European Satellite Observers Meeting: Eurosom 2 .

March 14, 1996 : Added a new page with links to home pages of SeeSat-L members. Also updated the page with WWW resources.

March 13, 1996 : Updated the satellite situation report, and started mirroring of it. Started automatic update of decay information in the decay report.

March 11, 1996 : Added a page carrying Tethered satellite (TSS) images.

November 12, 1995 : What's new? Well lots of alterations. Main additions are imagemaps for predictions and details of shuttle re-entry and water dumps. More information added for the STS-74/Mir mission.

November 7, 1995 : Updated the address of the shuttle elements mailing list on the Orbital Elements Page.

October 31, 1995 : Updated the Observing Program of the Belgian Working Group Satellites.

August 6, 1995 : In the midst of mirroring the site to www.satellite.eu.org. Updated the satellite situation report.

June 22, 1995 : Added live media resources list for STS-71 (for us poor Europeans).

June 21, 1995 : Pre-launch predictions for the STS-71 mission, over Europe are now available.

June 6, 1995 : Added new pages on positional measurements to complement those of flash period measurements.

May 20, 1995 : Added Flash 93 to the BWGS pages. Flash is the monthly newsletter of the Belgian Working Group Satellites. Also updated the Satellite Situation Report on the Other Information page.

May 19, 1995 : Revised the Mir-Shuttle and Shuttle pages, plus added a new Mir page. Numerous new links (ie more than I can remember).

May 16, 1995 : Daily updated predictions of 23 bright satellites for 17 European cities are now available on the Predictions page.

May 11, 1995 : Added the home page of SeeSat-L, the visual satellite observers mailing list.

May 5, 1995 : Added the 'About these pages' page. Also updated shuttle and Mir details.

May 2, 1995 : Added a link to the Home Page of the Virgina-based Amateur Satellite Observers and to Chris van den Berg's MIR news reports to the Other Information page.

April 22, 1995 : Updated pages to take advantage of netscape extensions but not at the expense of less capable browsers. No netscrapie here!

April 18, 1995 : Added Flash 92 to the BWGS pages. Flash is the monthly newsletter of the Belgian Working Group Satellites.

April 17, 1995 : Added a high-resolution picture of MIR by Alain Grycan and Eric Laffont to the page about telescopic observing.

April 16, 1995 : Updated shuttle and Mir details. Added more information on telescopic observing and geostationary satellites.

April 7, 1995 : Added the Satellite Situation Report (as prepared by Mike McCants) to the Other Information page.

April 6, 1995 : VSO Home Page first installed. The pages combine Neil's introductory pages (formerly at www.ee.ucl.ac.uk) and Bart's pages on tumbling satellites.