Hi all, I'm just back from a week long vacation trip. As anticipated, my mailbox was overloaded... and once again got unsubscribed due to bouncing messages. First I would like to thank Bram, Ted, Ed and Bjorn for their replies. As I saw with the mail exchange, it's not easy to settle on one format. I too prefer to use an already existing format with a few minor modifications if necessary. I just don't know how automated the process of determining standard or intrinsic magnitudes is. Are the magnitude data from the IOD-formatted reports used for standard magnitude determination ? Or is their a prefered format for doing so. As I mentioned on my original message, the goal here is to make it simple for the observers while providing sufficient data for the magnitude calculations. For now, I favor the format derived from the PPAS as first suggested by Ed then refined by Ted. It is short and contains the necessary info. The observer will have to use a sat tracking software to obtain the range and phase angle data to put in the report. Thanks to Bram Dorreman for his offer to host the magnitude obs database. If it can help, my website is also available for this data. -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Jul 18 2004 - 11:22:06 EDT