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 300 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@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de Send a message with Subject: archive get program/satoct97.txt to the same address, to get accompanying notes by Kurt Jonckheere (Satorama). Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas7/ppas7-04.obs to the same address for the latest update to PPAS 7, containing all new PPAS-observations. Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas7/ppas7-0?.obs to the same address to receive all updates to PPAS 7 If you don't have the latest version of our archive of Photometric Periods of Artificial Satellites (version 7), you can obtain it by : Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas7/ppas7.txt to SeeSat-L-request@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de to get the introductory text about the PPAS7 Send a message with Subject: archive get ppas7/ppas7.uue to SeeSat-L-request@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de to get the uuencoded and zipped version of the ppas7-files. Bart also let me know that the VSOHP pages have been updated : You may now also browse PPAS 7 and the program.* files with your favourite Net-browser (thanks Bart). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SATORAMA (=satoct97.txt, observations in PPAS7-04.OBS) 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 Top-priority objects : 87- 20 B ! 17536/F2 Kosmos 1823, discovered by RO 87- 74 G ! 18340/F2 Tsyklon Kosmos 1875-1880: still accelerating !? 89- 86 B ! 20306/Meteor 3-3 R/B, flashing according to Leo Barhorst 91- 46 A ! 21533/Gorizont 23 geosat with slowly decreasing period ! 93- 15 B ! 22564/Centaur UHF1: GTO, accelerating ? 636 observations received from 12 observers : JHR: Jay Respler, Freehold, NJ, USA JVS: Jan Vansteelandt Leuven Belgium KJ: Kurt Jonckheere Antwerpen Belgium LB: Leo Barhorst Alkmaar The Netherlands LS: Lutz Schindler Braunschweig Germany PDV: Patrick Devreese Moen Belgium RE: Russell Eberst, Edinburgh, Scotland RO: Jean-Pierre Rohart Wormhout France RS: Robert Sheaffer San Jose, CA USA TC: Tristan Cools, Brugge, Belgium VAG: Vince Gardiner, Coffs Harbour, Australia WH: Wim Holwerda, Loon-op-Zand The Netherlands Next deadline for sending in observations: November 17, 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 life much easier for me. Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@unicall.be) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@unicall.be) 51.2 N 2.9 E 4m ASL (Old accelerations : http://uc2.unicall.be/kjonckheere/index.htm) 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------