Re: A QUESTION?

From: Björn Gimle via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:44:16 +0100
AFIK there are two sites that accept observations:
heavensabove.com (if you and your site have  registered)
satflare.com - form for flash reports, result must be e-mailed via
cut-paste. I believe these are analyzed to produce flash predictions on the
site.

fredag 23 mars 2018 skrev Ted Molczan via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>:

> John Gerrard wrote:
>
> > A question popped up in my mind: Why there is not a website/server that
> seesat observers
> > could submit their observations?
> > Such a server could automatically generate TLEs for different satellites
> and maintain a
> > catalogue of them.
>
> The short answer is that to-date no one has decided to do so. Nothing
> prevents anyone from developing an automated orbital analysis system, and I
> would not be surprised to see it happen some day. I imagine there would be
> at least some support for the idea within the group. Even if no one decided
> to co-operate by submitting observations to a dedicated server, it probably
> would not be difficult to write an automated script to detect and extract
> observations posted to the list.
>
> > As far as I know, currently Ted Molczan converts the observations that
> are emailed to the
> > seesat list to TLE and updates the CLASSFD.TLE.
>
> Mike McCants has always produced classfd.tle, and my guess is that he
> accounts for well over 95% of all of the TLEs published by our group since
> the mid-1990s.
>
> Ted Molczan
>
>
>
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