Interesting that you are noting the silence of IMCCE.....from the very first date
that this change was made, I had trouble getting comet data consistently with that
link to IMCCE; it would never complete the download, or connection could not be even
made.
Nearly every night the comet data was all over the place, with missing comets,
horribly incorrect epochs and other mistakes.

When the "Use Only MPC...." function/link was added through some gentle pursuasion,
things worked just fine and downloads have been accurate and swift, no problems.

I suggest that the IMCCE link be removed completely from Guide.

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Dr. Clay

Arkansas Sky Observatories
http://www.arksky.org/
ASO Petit Jean Mountain /MPC H41
ASO Petit Jean Mountain South /MPC H45
ASO West Conway /MPC H43
.......serving astronomy since 1971
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Gray pluto@... [guide-user]" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Re: Adding Comets


> Hi David,
>
> Simplest way to fix this :
>
> (1) Make sure you're using the version of the Guide 9 software from
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm
>
> You will see, among other improvements, "(2012 December 12) Fixes
> and improved display of comets". Which is partly why I recommend getting
> this version.
>
> (2) The "improvement" involved having Guide use comet orbital data
> from the IMCCE in France, plus the Minor Planet Center's comet data.
> The only sticky bit is that the IMCCE has gone silent, causing Guide's
> automatic comet retrieval to break. (As you found.)
>
> So instead, try downloading this file:
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/eltdat_g.txt
>
> (about 193 KBytes) to your Guide folder. This is the last version
> of the IMCCE data, from August 2015.
>
> Then, download the MPC file directly :
>
> http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/Soft02Cmt.txt
>
> And save it to your Guide folder... _changing the name to
> soft02cm.txt_, i.e., drop a 't' from the name. Upper vs. lowercase
> doesn't matter, at least not in Windows.
>
> -- Bill
>
> On 11/05/2015 02:01 PM, stonedoffmyass@... [guide-user] wrote:
>>
>>
>> I solved my own issue.( kind of )
>>
>> After careful review of the orbital elements and their entries,
>>
>> One laptop I have magically took the orbital elements ,the other machine refuses
>> to accept these new Comets.
>>
>> At least I can "add a trail" , and print the chart displaying added Comet now.
>>
>> Will settle for that for now
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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>
>
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