Hello Group .  Trudging fwd with my old laptop 

working for now 

I was not able to solve the "add MPC comets" auto download issue.

Tried the old way manually dropping softcmt into the GUIDE cache and clicking on it.

However was not able to see Comet displayed in GUIDE, so...

I went to "add new comet"

Added all the parameters based on info from theskylive

Was unsure what to add for "absolute magnitude".

Still NO Comet displayed.

Is this typically difficult to add a Comet?

Thanks-

David