Re: Routine Obs Reporting

Mir16609@aol.com
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:21:36 EDT

In a message dated 7/29/99 6:30:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Bruno_Tilgner@compuserve.com writes:

> >What do the rest of you think? 

My first thought was that this discussion belongs in the under-utilized 
UseSat-L list. 

>  I am NOT in favour of routine observation reports.
>  Everything that behaved as calculated with publicly
>  available TLEs isn't worth reporting. 

Thankfully, few posts on this list include solely routine pass reports of 
non-operational objects. For evenings where there are some minor or 
unexpected events I (and others on the list) post "Obs [Date]" in the Subject 
line.  This should inform potential readers that the body of the e-mail 
contains something of greater interest than "I saw Mir" but of less interest 
than "The object reached -14 mag just before the darn thing crashed into my 
house."    I have always assumes that most observers have their own high 
interest list and will read general observation posts to keep up to speed on 
those objects.       

The posts made with positional observations ("Mir passed through Orion") 
should at least include an approximate azimuth and elevation.  

I wonder if it is possible for the SeeSat-L server to automatically delete 
attached binaries and HTML text.

See:
http://www2.satellite.eu.org/faq.html
for info on UseSat-L - The Non-Observation discussion list. 

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