Observing program of BWGS
Bart De Pontieu (BDP@MPEPL)
Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:26:33 +0100 (CET)
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)
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to the same address, to get accompanying notes by Kurt Jonckheere (Satorama).
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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 :
75- 52 M NEW, seen flashing by RE
82- 30 B ! 13128/C1 Kosmos 1349: seen flashing by LB !
92- 30 J ! 21984/C1 Kosmos 2187-2194: very probably accelerated !
92- 76 B ! 22220/J1 Zenit,Kosmos 2219: jump in Mean Mot. but seen S by PM
95- 17 B NEW, flashing according to LB
96- 37 B NEW, long period according to LB
96- 45 B NEW, flashing according to Russell Eberst
Top priority objects :
74- 63 A ! 7411/DMSP 6: accelerating ?
79- 50 A !d 11389/AMS 4: accelerated?
82- 30 B ! 13128/C1 Kosmos 1349: seen flashing by LB !
84-109 B !x 15360/C1 Kosmos 1605: acceleration stopped?
85- 94 G ! 16144/F2 Tsyklon K1690-1695: still going down?
86- 37 B !x 16728/C1 Kosmos 1745; accelerating?
86- 62 A ! 16917/Kosmos 1771: accelerated ?, seen with 8s by LB
86-100 B ! 17240/C1 K1808; slowly accelerating?
87- 60 A ! 18187/Cosmos 1867; going down !!
87- 74 G !x 18340/F2 Tsyklon Kosmos 1875-1880: sudden acceleration ?
87- 98 B ! 18586/C1 Kosmos 1898: still going down ?
88- 53 B ! 19257/C1 Kosmos 1954: acceleration stopped
89- 17 B ! 19827/C1 Kosmos 2004: might be accelerating !
89- 28 B ! 19922/C 2016 r; has accelerated, going up again?
89- 59 B ! 20150/C 2034 r; to be checked
90- 78 B ! 20775/C1 Kosmos 2098: could have been accelerated acc to RE
91- 59 B ! 21667/C1 Kosmos 2154: MM jump=>has accelerated
92- 30 J ! 21984/C1 Kosmos 2187-2194: very probably accelerated !
92- 73 B !x 22208/C1 Kosmos 2218: accelerating ?
92- 76 B ! 22220/J1 Zenit,Kosmos 2219: jump in Mean Mot. but seen S by PM
93- 36 B ! 22676/C1 Kosmos 2251
94- 45 B b!x 23190/C1 Kosmos 2285; sometimes hp
95- 52 B ! 23677/C1 K2321
95- 58 B !b 23705/J1 Zenit K2322
Observers of July 1996
BJG: Bjoern Gimle, Stockholm, Sweden
JEV: Jim Varney, Sacramento, California, USA
KD: Kurt Dequick, Bredende, Belgium
KJ: Kurt Jonckheere, Oostende, Belgium
LB: Leo Barhorst, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
PM: Paul Maley, Houston, USA
RE: Russell Eberst, Edinburgh, Scotland
WPK: Willie Koorts, Wellington, South Africa
Total number of observations: only 124 !
Next deadline for sending in observations: September 22, 1996 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.
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
"Nous sommes quand-meme tous des Europeens" -- TC Matic
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