Observing Program of the BWGS
Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@unicall.be)
Tue, 29 Jul 1997 20:38:34 +0200
Observing Program of the BWGS
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The Belgian Working Group Satellites has been active in collecting flash
period measurements since 1987. Our priority list contains over 300
satellites.=20
New in the E-mail archive : Overview of BWGS program (including recent=20
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/satjul97.txt
to the same address, to get accompanying notes by Kurt Jonckheere=
(Satorama).
Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas7/ppas7-02.obs
to the same address for the latest update to PPAS 7, containing all=20
new PPAS-observations.
Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas7/ppas7-01.obs=20
to the same address to receive the first update to PPAS 7
If you don't have the latest version of our archive of Photometric
Periods of Artificial Satellites (version 7), you can obtain it by :
Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas7/ppas7.txt
to SeeSat-L-request@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de
to get the introductory text about the PPAS7
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to SeeSat-L-request@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de
to get the uuencoded and zipped version of the ppas7-files.
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SATORAMA (=3Dsatjul97.txt, observations in PPAS7-02.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 :
85- 94 G ! 16144/F2 Tsyklon K1690-1695, accelerated? , dtm
87- 60 A ! 18187/Cosmos 1867; still accelerating
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=7F
91- 46 A ! 21533/Gorizont 23 geosat with slowly decreasing period !
91- 59 B ! 21667/C1 Kosmos 2154: Accelerating !
93- 1 B ! 22308/C1 Kosmos 2230, has accelerated in May 97
73 observations received from :
JHR: Jay Respler, Freehold, NJ, USA
PDV: Patrick Devreese Moen Belgium
RE: Russell Eberst, Edinburgh, Scotland
RO: Jean-Pierre Rohart Wormhout France
TC: Tristan Cools, Brugge, Belgium
VAG: Vince Gardiner, Coffs Harbour, Australia
Next deadline for sending in observations: August 19, 1997 to Kurt=
Jonckheere
Sanderusstraat 15, bus 3, B-2018 Antwerpen, Belgium
or by e-mail to ppas@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de
All observations are appreciated very much.
If you send your observations to Seesat-L, please also send them
DIRECTLY to ppas@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de. 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