Many thanks Dr. Clay! Only a question: MPECsort  runs also with Guide 9?

Best regards!

Alfredo Caronia
Il 27/gen/2015 22:56 "'P. Clay Sherrod' drclay@... [guide-user]" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com> ha scritto:

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> I must say, that there is still a simpler way, one without problems and pitfalls, and one which allows YOU to select the exact NEOs that you wish to observe in the order in which you want to observe them.
> MPECsort is a free and highly effective software for GUIDE that allows you to obtain asteroids and comets in RA order with DEC restrictions and magnitude limitations of the most important NEOs that are current; this gives you the ability to update to the current Daily Orbital Update every morning for the latest objects.
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> It is found at Arkansas Sky Observatories, and is maintained by the same.  Just follow the complete instructions for download and you will have one of the most powerful tool for organizing asteroid observations:
> http://www.arksky.org/MPCSort/Home.html
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> It automatically updates your GUIDE program as well as provides you with a working list/schedule for all asteroids that you chose within your parameters for any given night.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: alfredo caronia alfredoc49@... [guide-user]
>> To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: [guide-user] Asteroid 2004 BL86
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>> Hello Bill! In relation to this step of your email 27/01/2015:
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>> " Anyway. The new scheme is a heck of a lot simpler, and the bugs appear
>> to have all vanished. It does require, however, that you download
>> 'mpcorb.dat' so that _all_ asteroids are replaced with one consistent
>> dataset of orbital elements. "
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>> I wanted to say that the option "Add MPC Comets / Asteroids" in "Extras" menu does not work because refers to two  outdated links!
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>> In fact, it reads: "The Minor Planet Center (MPC) and the IMCCE
>> Shops provide orbital elements for comets. Guide updates ITS list of comets
>> using Both sources; MPC Gives currently-observable comets, all IMCCE
>> comets since about 1995. (Data for historical comets is Already built
>> Into the DVD Guide.) You can click on to download the Following
>> some of These files, getting orbital date for newly-found objects and
>> Already known for improving on orbits objects. About 600 KBytes will be
>> downloaded. "
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>> But the MPC link and Ithe MCCE link included in the note above are no longer active!
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>> I therefore assume that the automatic update of the data of asteroids does not work anymore! (Maybe I'm wrong? Possibly correct me!)
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>> So, being so, I ask for confirmation if the suggested alternative  ( viable for the future  ) is the manual download of mpcorb.dat and, in this case,  i wonder in which folder, I should put the file of mpcorb.dat!
>>  Should I create a new folder in C: / Guide for instance?
>> Thanks for tips and clarifications!
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>> Best Regards!
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>> Alfredo Caronia
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>> 2015-01-27 3:05 GMT+00:00 Bill Gray pluto@... [guide-user] <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>:
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>>> Hi Roger,
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>>> Updating via the critical list, or any "sublist", is very likely to
>>> lead to trouble. In fact, it's not even an option with the currently
>>> posted software at
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>>> http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm
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>>> I'd advise downloading that, and then getting the current 'mpcorb.dat'
>>> from the MPC site.
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>>> I know I described the issue somewhere, but can't find it now, so here
>>> goes: For many years, Guide tried to handle asteroid and comet updates by
>>> downloading the smaller files MPC provides, and attempting to figure out
>>> which objects were updates and which were new objects, and trying to account
>>> for the fact that sometimes you got the same objects with new designations.
>>> To say that the resulting code was bizarre would be an understatement. That
>>> led to bugs. There may have been more inquiries about problems with adding
>>> comets and asteroids than any other part of Guide.
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>>> Anyway. The new scheme is a heck of a lot simpler, and the bugs appear
>>> to have all vanished. It does require, however, that you download
>>> 'mpcorb.dat' so that _all_ asteroids are replaced with one consistent
>>> dataset of orbital elements.
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>>> -- Bill
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>>> On 01/26/2015 07:32 PM, roger.curry@... [guide-user] wrote:
>>> > I updated my asteroid list with the critical list today but can not find the asteroid using 2004 BL86. I also went to the area it is supposed to be in and it did not show up under that designation, How do I find it in Guide?
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