Hi Peter,
Thanks for mentioning that... hadn't happened to use that on my
64-bit box. I should be able to fix it. Please do let me know if
you run into other problems; I'm hoping to post it as a production
version soon.
By the way, I think you may be the best-placed person to catch
WT1190F before it hits. I ran a few ephems for various places,
and everybody else either has the object get too low or has twilight
creep in on them a bit earlier. You might get it an hour, maybe
even half an hour, before re-entry.
I _think_ your data would be _really_ useful here. For one thing,
I know you've gotten your timing right. The object will be starting
to streak across the sky, and will be at a low phase angle. If
you can get a magnitude estimate on it, I would think that that
(compared with magnitudes gathered at high elongations) ought to
tell us something useful, probably about its shape. At such low
elongations with a bright object, you might even get a rotation
period... though that may be a bit optimistic, given the speed
at which it will moving across the sky!
-- Bill
On 11/11/2015 02:11 PM, lists@... [find_orb] wrote:
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> Bill,
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> I've been using the in development 64-bit version and haven't found anything wrong with the orbit determination side, but one thing that doesn't work in this version is the ability to right-click in the orbital elements area and paste astrometry in from the clipboard.
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> That option is a real time saver, hopefully reinstated in the next production version?!
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> Peter
> J95
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> ---In find_orb@yahoogroups.com, <pluto@...> wrote :
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> I've just posted an "in development" update to Find_Orb at
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> http://projectpluto.com/pluto/devel/find_orb.htm
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> This _is_ an "in development" version, though, and I'd very much
> like to hear any trouble reports.
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