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 300 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@lists.satellite.eu.org Send a message with Subject: archive get program/satjan98.txt to the same address, to get accompanying notes by Kurt Jonckheere (Satorama). Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas7/ppas7-06.obs to the same address for the latest update to PPAS 7, containing all new PPAS-observations. Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas7/ppas7-0?.obs to the same address to receive all updates to PPAS 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SATORAMA (=satjan98.txt, observations in PPAS7-06.OBS) 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 x DRA object Special remarks Top-priority objects : 87- 74 G ! 18340/F2 Tsyklon Kosmos 1875-1880: still accelerating !? 89- 86 B ! 20306/Meteor 3-3 R/B, flashing according to Leo Barhorst 91- 19 B ! 21153/C1 Nadezhda 3: has accelerated !!! 91- 46 A ! 21533/Gorizont 23 geosat with slowly decreasing period ! 96- 71 B ! 24678/C 2336 r, accelerating !? NEW objects: 76- 73 B 9329/Comstar 2 Rk, NEW, rediscovered by KJ, asymm. period, GTO 78- 35 B 10779/Intelsat4A6 Rk, NEW, rediscovered by KJ, GTO 78- 68 B 10976/Comstar 3 Rk, NEW, rediscovered by KJ, GTO 81- 3 A NEW, flashing according to RE 83-111 A NEW, flashing according to RE 89- 4 A 19765/NEW, Gorizont 17, flashing according to Daniel Karcher 92- 94 A 22286/ Kosmos 2228/ NEW 94- 35 B 23133/ Centaur AC76, NEW, discovered by Ed Cannon 97- 51 D 24947/ NEW, Iridium 27, flashing with about 4s ! 97- 64 B 25018/ NEW, Lacrosse 3 rocket second stage flashing 97- 86 D 25129/Block-DM 3 rocket, NEW 144 observations received from 8 observers : AS: Alex Seidel Stade/Elbe Germany EC: Ed Cannon Austin, Texas USA KJ: Kurt Jonckheere Antwerpen Belgium LB: Leo Barhorst Alkmaar The Netherlands RE: Russell Eberst, Edinburgh, Scotland RGL: Ron Lee Falcon USA RM: Rob Matson Belmont Shore, CA USA WN: Walter Nissen Silver Spring, USA Next deadline for sending in observations: February 12, 1998 to Kurt Jonckheere, Noendries 15, B-9000 Gent, Belgium or by e-mail to ppas@lists.satellite.eu.org All observations are appreciated very much. If you send your observations to Seesat-L, please also send them DIRECTLY to ppas@lists.satellite.eu.org. This is just a small amount of additional work for you, but it makes life 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 4m ASL (Old 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@lists.satellite.eu.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------