Observing Program of the BWGS ----------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------