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Re: trying to find lovejoy
With either .net or .org I get exactly 50 objects. Wish I knew why. Greg
By Greg Hennessy · #3441 ·
Re: trying to find lovejoy
Replace ".net" with ".org" Recently updated the file, loads with count 773 entries. With that update XEphem shows C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy as currently at about 4:57, -17:05 (J2000, Jan. 2, 1h UT), mag. 5.2
By meyeraw · #3440 ·
trying to find lovejoy
I dusted off Xephem today trying to figure out where Comet Lovejoy is, noticed that in the download window that the download location was still cfa-www.harvard, updated it to be
By Greg Hennessy · #3439 ·
Re: Magnitude problem
Hey, If you want to proceed, lets take this offline. dxwayne at gmail.com. We can post summary results later. To quiesce this particular thread... I've just noticed some sort of disconnect between the
By Wayne Green · #3438 ·
Re: Magnitude problem
So, is this page of any use? http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/Ephemerides/Soft03.html Cheers, Santiago Roland.- --------------------------------- Jabber: santiago@... Diaspora*:
By Santiago Roland <santiago@...> · #3437 ·
Re: Magnitude problem
http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/MPCORB/MPCORB.DAT.gz is one place; I checked for your asteroids they are there, maybe with a different primary name? --W
By Wayne Green · #3436 ·
Re: Magnitude problem
So, where i can download correctly the orbital elements file from the MPC? Do they support XEphem as they claim in their page? Best regards, Santiago Roland.- --------------------------------- Jabber:
By Santiago Roland <santiago@...> · #3435 ·
Re: Magnitude problem
et Viola! The line you have in Soft03Unusual.edb has a field: 'H,' that should read: 'H21.5,' That carries the asteroid 'H=absolute magnitude' upon which the angles and distances are used to compute
By Wayne Green · #3434 ·
Re: Magnitude problem [2 Attachments]
Well, i still have this issue. I deleted all asteroid catalogs in /usr/local/xephem/catalogs and /home/user/.xephem with no luck, the Unusual asteroids still show in wrong magnitudes. Both grep
By Santiago Roland <santiago@...> · #3433 ·
Re: Magnitude problem [2 Attachments]
By Santiago Roland <santiago@...> · #3432 ·
Re: Magnitude problem
Hey, using xephem 3.7.7-RC3 I checked JPL and the MPC for the object 2010 JT123, for which they show an updated name of 2014 FD7. I don't find either name in the .edb files from Lowell or the MPC
By Wayne Green · #3431 ·
Re: Magnitude problem
And also detected other problem that is maybe related to the magnitude problem. It is in the numbering of the asteroids, see in the screen i toggled high magnitude for a panorama view of bright
By Santiago Roland <santiago@...> · #3430 ·
Re: Magnitude problem
Yeah, i keep having the same problem. I downloaded the Lowell dim catalog and magnitudes are fine, The issue is with the MPC files. I downloaded them in the orbital elements page for planetarium
By Santiago Roland <santiago@...> · #3429 ·
Re: Creating object lists?
Manual included in download bundle has full details on format of object list input format, for either fixed objects (stars, galaxies, etc.) or orbital elements. The data fields (name, R.A., Dec.,
By meyeraw · #3428 ·
Re: 11/25/2014 4:52:01 AM
This member has been placed on moderated status. -- John Perry - WX5JP http://www.jpunix.net https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=b90b690ca5bb
By John Perry <lists@...> · #3427 ·
11/25/2014 4:52:01 AM
http://secure.hostexper.com/eaoxni/qzwnckwehgvvzopfwhxqmxcqjjzvrsbgkbyzhxn.iuxgqwojpfctebjuvnbhmjzumluaxeg peregil2007@...
By peregil2007 · #3426 ·
Re: Digest Number 1332
Current purchased versions of XEphem have UCAC4 in the download tars. But see Teixeira article re bad UCAC proper motions for V>12 from Allan Meyer's cell phone
By meyeraw · #3425 ·
Re: Star Catalogs
I purchased my USNO A2.0 on Ebay (of all places) years ago. -Karl
By Karl Oestreich · #3424 ·
Re: Magnitude problem
You do realize that Downloading just stores them on disk, right? You must still Load them using Data -> Files.
By ecdowney@... · #3423 ·
Re: Star Catalogs
Yes, i know that USNO B1 it's like 80GB or so, but for todays storage capacity would not be that much problem, just a 1-week torrent download or 2. Maybe it was available in some FTP server or
By Santiago Roland <santiago@...> · #3422 ·