Hi all, Allen Thomson wrote: > Going beyond the current proposal, it might also be useful to set up an > archive of observations to facilitate analysis of unkns. The SeeSat-L > message record currently serves this purpose to some extent, but a more > compact and searchable version would be desirable. I've been following the recent discussion on the list about unknown objects, and would like to propose that my Heavens-Above web site be the host for both observation reports and unknown elsets. We have a site running that most people know about and it already has database access. I'm a little uneasy about allowing unlimited write access to the database, and so would probably implement a username and password scheme for trusted users. These users would then be able to call up a data entry page and insert observations and elsets directly into the database. They would all be indexed by both Norad ID and international designator, so it would be easy to produce tabular results for a given object for downloading and further analysis. There would, of course, be no charge for becoming a trusted user. I've been thinking about implementing something like this for quite a while now, and the recent discussion prompted me to make the proposal now. Later, the scheme could be extended to allow on-line generation of elsets from posted observations, and also a kind of bulletin board for more general observations indexed by object. As a first step, I would appreciate it if someone could point me to descriptions of the rather cryptic formats which are used for reporting of observations. Would there also be a case for a simpler format for data entry, at least as an option? Regards, Chris Chris Peat, Heavens-Above GmbH E-mail: Chris.Peat@heavens-above.com Web site: www.heavens-above.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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