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--></style></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I got this back form them when I asked a week or so ago</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you for your email, Owen. We are working on this, and many other things. Thank you for your patience.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--Matt<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Owen</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:ndj@nickdjames.com">Nick James</a><br><b>Sent: </b>25 July 2019 12:51<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:comets-disc@lists.britastro.org">BAA Comets discussion list</a>; <a href="mailto:jdsh@bas.ac.uk">Shanklin, Jonathan D.</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [BAA Comets] MPC data</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Owen,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yes, the lists of comets that the MPC generate for various software </p><p class=MsoNormal>tools have not been updated since May 13. The last comet in these files </p><p class=MsoNormal>is C/2019 J2 (Palomar) but it is way off track now.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is a pain for those of us using software to control telescopes etc.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The JPL comet elements file:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/dat/ELEMENTS.COMET</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>is up to date, it has C/2019 N1 (ATLAS), but it doesn't include </p><p class=MsoNormal>magnitude parameters.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If this goes on much longer I'll need to generate some scripts to make </p><p class=MsoNormal>the Soft06Cmt.txt file I use in TheSky from the JPL file.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 25/07/2019 10:59, Shanklin, Jonathan D. wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> They are certainly generating MPECs, but not generating compilations. I've not updated my Megastar format list https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/cbat141.txt for about a month, but will do so at some point. The information at https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/coms19.htm will tell you if any of the new comets are interesting!</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Regards,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Jonathan Shanklin</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> ________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>> From: Comets-disc <comets-disc-bounces@lists.britastro.org> on behalf of Owen Brazell <o.brazell@btinternet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Sent: 25 July 2019 10:45</p><p class=MsoNormal>> To: BAA Comets discussion list <comets-disc@lists.britastro.org></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Subject: [BAA Comets] MPC data</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Nick</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> I understand that a machine failure means that there are no new comet elements being updated by the MPC and no date for this to be resumed. Is this your understand as well and has anything interesting been picked up in the meantime?</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Owen</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>Comets-disc mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>Comets-disc@lists.britastro.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://lists.britastro.org/mailman/listinfo/comets-disc</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>