[BAA Comets] Fwd: COBS mail on ICQ import

[Nick James]

Johan,

This is really good news. Many thanks for your efforts and to the other 
members of the COBS team. This will be a very useful resource in the 
future and I hope that it will encourage many other people to submit 
their observations.

For those that haven't yet done so I strongly encourage all comet 
observers to sign up with COBS here:

http://www.cobs.si/register

If you are a BAA member please record the affiliation when you sign up.

Nick James. Director, BAA Comet Section

> We have now started importing observations into COBS from the ICQ
> historical archive dating from 2012. This archive contains around 130
> 000 observations of which the overwhelming majority
> ​was not
> present in the COBS database. Data imported from the ICQ archive can
> be identified with the ICQ## string where ## is the number of
> publication in the ICQ newsletter.
>
> At this time the import for comets 1P through 90P is complete (about
> ​40 000 observations) except for a small number of observations with
> unknown ICQ keys and observers.
> ​​When the import is complete we will
> ask you in the community for help with identifications.​
>
> As we have no country/association information for
> ​ICQ observers this
> will necessarily skew the statistics presented on the Statistics page
> ​as well as data selected by the association/country selector on the
> Analysis
> page. Many observers are now assigned the ICQ association. This can be
> corrected at any time with improved information provided by the
> community.
>
> Jure Zakrajsek has also added two new pages on the COBS web under the
> Help tab, which can be reached without logging in. One is a sortable
> list of comet observers, keys and observation count
> (http://www.cobs.si/help?page=observer_list), the other a page with
> COBS contact information (http://www.cobs.si/help?page=contact).
>
> We have also
> ​started sending out a monthly
> ​ e-mail with ​
> observations statistics
> ​for your particular
> ​astronomical ​
> association.Sign up for the report via your personal profile. Please assign
> your country and association identity at the same time.
>
> ​Please let us know if you have any questions, comments. or suggestions for
> improvements.
>
> ​With best regards,
>
> Johan Warell
> COBS Assistant Administrator
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