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I've updated <a href="https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/cbat141.txt">https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/cbat141.txt</a> using the JPL elements and magnitude parameters from the comet orbit home page. Those of you that use megastar can just copy it as comet.txt I
don't guarantee that the new elements are actually for the epoch of perihelion, which the older ones largely are. Periodic comets are in <a href="https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/numper.txt">https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/numper.txt</a> though this hasn't been
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<div class="PlainText">Regards,<br>
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Jonathan Shanklin</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Nick James <ndj@nickdjames.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 25 July 2019 12:51<br>
<b>To:</b> BAA Comets discussion list <comets-disc@lists.britastro.org>; Shanklin, Jonathan D. <jdsh@bas.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [BAA Comets] MPC data</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Owen,<br>
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Yes, the lists of comets that the MPC generate for various software <br>
tools have not been updated since May 13. The last comet in these files <br>
is C/2019 J2 (Palomar) but it is way off track now.<br>
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This is a pain for those of us using software to control telescopes etc.<br>
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The JPL comet elements file:<br>
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<a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/dat/ELEMENTS.COMET">https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/dat/ELEMENTS.COMET</a><br>
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is up to date, it has C/2019 N1 (ATLAS), but it doesn't include <br>
magnitude parameters.<br>
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If this goes on much longer I'll need to generate some scripts to make <br>
the Soft06Cmt.txt file I use in TheSky from the JPL file.<br>
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Nick.<br>
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On 25/07/2019 10:59, Shanklin, Jonathan D. wrote:<br>
> They are certainly generating MPECs, but not generating compilations. I've not updated my Megastar format list
<a href="https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/cbat141.txt">https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/cbat141.txt</a> for about a month, but will do so at some point. The information at
<a href="https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/coms19.htm">https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/coms19.htm</a> will tell you if any of the new comets are interesting!<br>
> <br>
> Regards,<br>
> <br>
> Jonathan Shanklin<br>
> <br>
> ________________________________<br>
> From: Comets-disc <comets-disc-bounces@lists.britastro.org> on behalf of Owen Brazell <o.brazell@btinternet.com><br>
> Sent: 25 July 2019 10:45<br>
> To: BAA Comets discussion list <comets-disc@lists.britastro.org><br>
> Subject: [BAA Comets] MPC data<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Nick<br>
> <br>
> 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?<br>
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> <br>
> <br>
> Owen<br>
> <br>
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