{"id":2976,"date":"2023-05-13T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafsnt.com\/?page_id=2976"},"modified":"2023-05-13T19:03:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T01:03:53","slug":"site-codes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hafsnt.com\/index.php\/site-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Site Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"alignwide wp-block-heading\">The COSPAR site code is a unique number for identifying observing sites for satellite trackers. COSPAR site codes are assigned to satellite trackers by folks at the Visual Satellite Observers Group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.satobs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.satobs.org\/<\/a> in cooperation with COSPAR <a href=\"https:\/\/cosparhq.cnes.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/cosparhq.cnes.fr\/<\/a> The two sites commonly listed in my satellite reductions are my home (8336 = TULSA1) and the Astronomy Club of Tulsa Observatory (8335 = TULSA2).<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"alignwide wp-block-heading\">These are not the same as the COSPAR International Designator for satellites <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Designator\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Designator<\/a> which are for objects launched to space.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"alignwide wp-block-heading\">MPC (Minor Planet Center) site codes are also assigned, but for minor planet tracking. Site 323 is the remote scope I use in Perth. A list of all the MPC codes is at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_observatory_codes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_observatory_codes<\/a>.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/hafsnt.com\/\">HOME<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COSPAR site code is a unique number for identifying observing sites for satellite trackers. COSPAR site codes are assigned to satellite trackers by folks at the Visual Satellite Observers Group http:\/\/www.satobs.org\/ in cooperation with COSPAR https:\/\/cosparhq.cnes.fr\/ The two sites commonly listed in my satellite reductions are my home (8336 = TULSA1) and the Astronomy&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hafsnt.com\/index.php\/site-codes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Site Codes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafsnt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafsnt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafsnt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafsnt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafsnt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hafsnt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/hafsnt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2976\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafsnt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}