Magnitude observations

From: Daniel Deak (dan.deak@sympatico.ca)
Date: Sat Jul 10 2004 - 13:11:44 EDT

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    Hi all,
    
    I have a question for the analysts on the list.
    
    What is the best format to use for reporting simple satellite magnitudes 
    observations like the ones I made on July 4 UTC. I'm sure there are some 
    satellite observers that would like to contribute some useful data to analysts 
    but are not interested on positional or flash period measurements. The goal here 
    is to format the data in a way it could be used to determine the standard 
    magnitudes of satelites.
    
    I guess the best way would be to use the PPAS format without the flash period 
    info ? What information is essential to permit standard magnitude calculation
    ?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Dan
    
    
    -- 
    Daniel Deak
    representant, projet spatial Starshine
    L'Avenir, Quebec
    
    COSPAR site 1747 : 45.7275°N, 72.3526°W, 191 m., UTC-4:00
    
    Site en francais sur les satellites:
    French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com
    
    
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