Observing Program of the BWGS ----------------------------- 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) Send a message with Subject: archive get program/program.* to SeeSat-L-request@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de Send a message with Subject: archive get program/satjan97.txt to the same address, to get accompanying notes by Kurt Jonckheere (Satorama). Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas/ppas6-09.obs to the same address for the latest update to PPAS 6, which contains all new PPAS-observations. To receive the all PPAS6 upgrades : Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas/ppas6-* SATORAMA Our observing programme can be found in the Program.rob file. It is subdivided in categories, the codes of which can be found below. 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 Special remarks NEW objects : 59- 7 A NEW, was flashing in '92 according to Jay 66- 5 N NEW, sometimes flashing according to Leo 74- 48 B - NEW, flashing with long period 79- 62 D NEW, seen flashing by Jay Respler 81- 81 B NEW, seen flashing with long period by Leo Barhorst 86- 19BJ NEw, flashing according to Russell Eberst 91- 7 B ! NEW, has accelerated ! Top-priority objects : 80- 98 B ! 12445/Centaur Intelsat 5A-2, accelerated ? 82- 55 B ! 13260/C1 Kosmos 1375, seen with short period by LB 84- 56 B ! 15032/C1 Kosmos 1570: accelerated according to Leo 85- 41 B !x 15752/C1 Kosmos 1655: short period seen by LB 85- 79 B ! 16012/C1 Kosmos 1680, low period seen by LB, accelerated ? 86-100 B ! 17240/C1 K1808; Accelerating ?, seen with high and low period! 87- 74 G !x 18340/F2 Tsyklon Kosmos 1875-1880: acceleration confirmed 87- 98 B ! 18586/C1 Kosmos 1898: still accelerating 89- 50 B ! 20104/Nadeshda 1 r, started flashing again acc. to LB ! 89- 85 B ! 20303/Navstar 2-04 second stage, flashing acc. to VAG 90- 78 B ! 20775/C1 Kosmos 2098: could have accelerated 90- 83 B ! 20805/C1 Kosmos 2100: acceleration confirmed by Kurt J 91- 7 B ! NEW, has accelerated ! 91- 50 F ! 21610/Ariane 40 R/B : seen flashing by Vince Gardiner 92- 8 B !x 21876/C1 Kosmos 2180: accelerating ! ! 92- 20 B ! 21938/C1 Kosmos 2184: going down slowly !? 92- 30 J ! 21984/C1 Kosmos 2187-2194: accelerated ! 92- 76 B ! 22220/J1 Zenit,Kosmos 2219: flashing again ! 93- 36 B ! 22676/C1 Kosmos 2251 : MMjump, accelerating ? 93- 67 B ! 22876/C1 Kosmos 2265 accelerated ? 93- 70 B ! 22889/C1 Kosmos 2266: MMjump, also accelerated ? Observers of December 1996/ January 1997 JHR: Jay Respler, USA JVS: Jan Vansteelandt, Leuven, Belgium KJ: Kurt Jonckheere, Antwerp, Belgium LB: Leo Barhorst, Alkmaar, The Netherlands RE: Russell Eberst, Edinburgh, Scotland TC: Tristan Cools, Brugge, Belgium RGL: Ron Lee, USA VAG: Vince Gardiner, Coffs Harbour, Australia WN: Walter Nissen, USA WV: Willy Verhaegen, Wetteren, Belgium Total number of observations received: 309 Next deadline for sending in observations: February 12, 1997 to Kurt Jonckheere Sanderusstraat 15, bus 3, B-2018 Antwerpen, Belgium or by e-mail to ppas@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de (changed !) If you still have observations of flashing satellites which were made in 1996, but you haven't found time to send them to us, please do it as soon as possible. All observations are appreciated very much. Till now, I've received about 3100 observations made during 1996, a lot more than in 1995. Thanks a lot to all observers !! We planned to create an overview of 1996 around March. If you send your observations to Seesat-L, please also send them DIRECTLY to ppas@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de (changed !). This is just a small amount of additional work for you, but it makes live much easier for me. Happy observing, Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@unicall.be) Observations collector of the Belgian Working Group Satellites ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@unicall.be) 51.2 N 2.9 E Latest accelerations : http://uc2.unicall.be/kjonckheere/index.htm observations collector for the Belgian Working Group Satellites: Send your observations of flashing satellites, preferrably in the correct PPAS format to ppas@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------