Hi all, The third edition of the EUROpean Satellite Observers Meeting is taking place in Edinburgh during the weekend of October 24 & 25, 1998. Below you find the programme (can be subject to changes). Please check out http://www2.satellite.eu.org/eurosom3.html for more details. Contact eurosom3@satellite.eu.org if you want to attend and haven't registered yet. Cheers, Bart, bart@satellite.eu.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday 24 October, 1998: 9:30 Introduction and Word of Welcome Alan Pickup 9:45 Iridium satellite observation activity Paul Maley 10:30 Coffee break ---------- 11:00 Personal Observations on the Soviet Space Programme Phillip Clark 12:15 Lunch break --------- 14:00 The Development and Prospects for the GSOC Satellite Visibility Web Site Chris Peat 14:50 Spin ups then and now, from Starad to ETS-6 Tony Beresford 15:30 Coffee break ---------- 16:05 Observing in Colorado David Brierley 16:45 Two years of SatEvo decay predictions Alan Pickup 17:30 General Discussion about popularizing/organizing satellite observing everyone? 18:00 End of first day Sunday 25 October, 1998 9:30 Conversion of rotation angular momentum for tumbling satellites Mike McCants 10:10 Hard- and software Tools for observing Brian Hunter 10:30 Coffee break ---------- 11:00 Documentation of satellite activity using low light level video 1997-98 Paul Maley 12:00 Lunch Break ---------- 13:45 Flash period Accelerations Kurt Jonckheere 14:15 Satellites observed by the TRACE satellite Bart De Pontieu 14:35 CCD-photography of the ASTRA satellites Bruno Tilgner 15:10 Coffee break ---------- 15:40 Rotation Axis of Superbird Rob Matson (?) 16:25 The Millennium Rock onboard MIR Phill Parker 16:40 What's in a name? -- Satellite Designations Russell Eberst 17:00 End of Eurosom 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------