Observing Program of the BWGS
Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@unicall.be)
Fri, 21 Mar 1997 18:45:45 +0100
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 200
satellites.
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observations)
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SATORAMA
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
New objects :
59- 9 A NEW, flashing according to Vince Gardiner
66- 82 B NEW, flashing according to Russell Eberst
70- 25CD 4719 NEW ; flashing
70- 89 B 4597 NEW ; MMJUMP, but still long period ?
Top-priority objects :
87- 6 B ! 17304/C1 K1814; NEW; MMJUMP !?
82- 55 B ! 13260/C1 Kosmos 1375, seen with short period by LB
84- 56 B ! 15032/C1 Kosmos 1570: accelerated according to Leo
87- 6 B ! 17304/C1 K1814; NEW; MMJUMP !?
87- 49 B ! 18096/C1 Kosmos 1850: accelerating again !
87- 60 A ! 18187/Cosmos 1867; still accelerating
87- 98 B ! 18586/C1 Kosmos 1898: still accelerating
88- 53 B ! 19257/C1 Kosmos 1954: still accelerating
90- 78 B ! 20775/C1 Kosmos 2098: could have accelerated
90- 83 B ! 20805/C1 Kosmos 2100: acceleration confirmed by Kurt J
91- 7 B ! 21090/C1 Kodmos 2123 : has accelerated !
93- 36 B ! 22676/C1 Kosmos 2251 : MMjump, accelerating ?
93- 70 B ! 22889/C1 Kosmos 2266: MMjump, also accelerated ?
94- 41 B !x 23180/C1 Nadezhda 4: going down ?
Observers of February/March 1997
BD: Bram Dorreman, Achel, Belgium
JHR: Jay Respler, USA
KJ: Kurt Jonckheere, Antwerp, Belgium
LB: Leo Barhorst, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
RE: Russell Eberst, Edinburgh, Scotland
TC: Tristan Cools, Brugge, Belgium
RGL: Ron Lee, USA
VAG: Vince Gardiner, Coffs Harbour, Australia
WV: Willy Verhaegen, Wetteren, Belgium
Total number of observations received: 232
Next deadline for sending in observations: April 10, 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 for the Belgian Working Group Satellites
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observations collector for the Belgian Working Group Satellites:
Send your observations of flashing satellites, preferrably in the correct
PPAS format to ppas@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de
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