[BAA Comets] BAA comet observations in COBS

[Shanklin, Jonathan D.]

There is usually a lot of quality control required, so for the moment continue sending them to me.

Regards,

Jonathan Shanklin
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From: Comets-disc [comets-disc-bounces at britastro.org] On Behalf Of Roger Dymock [roger.dymock at ntlworld.com]
Sent: 27 July 2015 10:59
To: 'BAA Comets discussion list'; 'Jure Zakrajšek'; 'Jakub Cerny'
Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] BAA comet observations in COBS

Good move!!!

Should observers submit observations to both COBS and the Comet Section Director? We do need to
document the process on the website and it might be worthwhile spelling that out at the workshop and
in the BAA Journal.

Regards

Roger Dymock
Email: roger.dymock at ntlworld.com
Tel: 023 92647986
Skype: rogerdymock67 or
Skype: rjvdymock
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-----Original Message-----
From: Comets-disc [mailto:comets-disc-bounces at britastro.org] On Behalf Of Nick James
Sent: 24 July 2015 22:01
To: Comets-disc at britastro.org; Jure Zakrajšek; Jakub Cerny
Subject: [BAA Comets] BAA comet observations in COBS

At the European Comet Conference held in early June one of the topics of
discussion was the archiving of comet observations. One of the key
motivations for people when they submit their observations is the
knowledge that the data will be available for use by researchers. This
function used to be performed by the ICQ but that archive now appears to
be effectively defunct. Our conclusion was that the COBS database was
the best option and that this would have a long-term future.

The BAA has a considerable archive of ICQ format observations curated by
Jonathan Shanklin and, through the hard work of Jure Zakrajsek, many of
these have now been imported into COBS. As of today 31488 observations
dating back to 1995 have been imported. Observations of 371 different
comets made by 169 observers are in this first batch.

Around 7000 records contain some form of formatting error but many of
these should be resolved with some work. Also, there will be many older
observations in the BAA archive but these will be more difficult to
handle, particularly if they are not in electronic form.

You can find the COBS database here:

        http://www.cobs.si/

Nick.
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