BWGS observing program May 1996

Bart De Pontieu (BDP@MPEPL)
Mon, 20 May 1996 16:13:28 +0100 (CET)

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. 

New in the E-mail archive : Overview of BWGS program (including recent 
observations)
 
Send a message with Subject: archive get program/program.*
to SeeSat-L-request@iris01.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de
Send a message with Subject: archive get program/satapr96.txt
to the same address, to get accompanying notes by Leo Barhorst (Satorama).
Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas/ppas6-01.obs
to the same address for the first update to PPAS 6, which contains all 
new PPAS-observations.

Or ftp these files anonymously from ftp.physics.ox.ac.uk in the directory
/pub/space/bwgs 

Our program can also be found on the World Wide Web at this URL:
http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bdp/sat/programrob.html

Priority codes :

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       additional code for DRA project 

Changes in this month's program :

65- 98 C/01807: some very strange observations    
78- 89 A/06275: scatter in observations           
79- 30 B/11327: beginners object again            
83-  4 A/13777: IRAS, short period acc to LB      
87- 88 A/18421: short period now ?                        
89- 28 B/19922: MM jump, to be checked            
90- 23 B/20528: some obs hp ?                     
92- 30 J/21984: nicely going up                   
94- 28 A/23101: long period ?
95- 72 C/23753: nicely going up
96- 14 B/23815: flashing acc to RE       
96- 17 B/23828: almost S
96- 24 B/23852: new, MSX rocket
96- 25 B/23854: new, Cosmos 2332 r    
		       
Observers of April 1996


BD:	Bram Dorreman, Achel, Belgium
HK*:	Horst Koehnke
JEV:    Jim Varney, Sacramento, California, USA 
JVS:    Jan Vansteelandt, Gistel, Belgium               
KJ:     Kurt Jonckheere, Ostend, Belgium      
LB:     Leo Barhorst, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
MPM:	Michael P. Murphy
MR:	Mike Rosseel, Ostend, Belgium
RE:     Russell Eberst, Edinburgh, Scotland
RK:     Rainer Kracht, Elmshorn, Germany 
TC:     Tristan Cools, Brugge, Belgium
WN:	Walter Nissen, Ohio, USA
WV:     Willy Verhaeghen, Wetteren, Belgium

Total number of observations: 666; mostly due to the large number of "old"
obs of the late Horst Koehnke. 

Next deadline for sending in observations: June 10, 1996. 
Please send observations to obs@physics.ox.ac.uk

[Note by LB:
This is my first Satorama. I hope to improve it in the coming months as I
have to get used to the programs. More time is needed to fully implement
and keep updated the Special remarks and top-priority objects. ]
					
Cheers,
    Leo Barhorst (leobarhorst@pi.net)
  & Bart De Pontieu

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Bart De Pontieu --  Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Garching
bdp@mpepl.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de -- http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bdp/eurosom.html
BWGS-coordinator -- Flash editor -- SeeSat-L administrator -- would-be-observer
                "I peer roun' trees, I kneel in the dark;"
              "Stopwatch running, I don't go to the lava-try."
                 "On weekend nights I go out sat-viewin';"
                      "How odd my family thinks of me!"
         CHORUS:     "He's a sat-watcher, and he's okay,"
               "He 'Quicksats' all night and he sleeps all day!  -- Jim Varney
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