[BAA Comets] ICQ archive now available via COBS

[Johan Warell]

Hi Clay,

Now that we are basically done with the ICQ archive we can turn our
attention to other data sets. Importing the ASO/ALPO archive is something
we can do as a next step. I will email yoy off-list about this.

Best regards, Johan


tisdag 26 januari 2016 skrev P. Clay Sherrod <drclay at tcworks.net>:

> Great effort....
> Unfortunately, it appears that you have chosen to ignore the huge database
> at Arkansas Sky Observatories:
> http://www.arksky.org/php/ctable.php
> which also supports the ALPO comet and planetary databases from its
> website.
> I certainly hope that this is not yet another repository that picks and
> chooses which observers and observations to use.
>
> That would essentially be creating another ICQ fiasco.
>
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 26, 2016 9:20 AM
> *Subject:* [comets-ml] ICQ archive now available via COBS
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> Dear comet observers,
>
> We are happy to inform you that the ICQ archive has now been uploaded to
> COBS, and that all those community-sourced but previously unavailable
> observations are now freely accessible for inspection and analysis!
>
> The number of new observations from the ICQ archive is nearly 113 000,
> bringing the total number of entries in the COBS database to 220 000. The
> number of observers is over 2200 and the number of observed comets 1100.
>
> The best observed comet is C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) with 15529 observations,
> the top association is the BAA with 88 000 observations and the top country
> USA with over 25 000 contributions. The earliest observations stored are of
> comet 12P made in 1884. A statistics summary may be found at
> http://www.cobs.si/statistics
>
> The observations which have been imported from the ICQ archive may be
> identified wi th the ICQ## string in the publication code, where ## is the
> ICQ newsletter no. where it was published. We have a few hundred
> observations where the observer ID is not known, the ICQ format is in error
> etc. We are working to get these data imported as well.
>
> The country and association statistics are not completely reliable as this
> information is not available from the ICQ; most of these observers have
> received the association code ICQ and the country is unassigned. We hope
> that the directors of the national societies who contribute data will be
> able to assist us in checking the database to complete this information.
>
> We also suspect that there are a lot of observations in
> personal/national/association archives which have not been reported to
> either ICQ or COBS. We will be happy to import such data as well,
> regardless if some observations may already be present in COBS. Please
> contact us if you know of such data sets.
>
> Any observer with a personal account can login to their user profile on
> COBS and check the country and association assignment to make sure that
> their data is handled correctly. Please let us know if you have any
> problems or questions.
>
> For the COBS team,
>
> Johan Warell
> COBS Assistant Administrator
>
>
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