Hi Scott,

Yup, that'll do it.

_However_, going to Extras... Asteroid/Comet Options... Add MPC
Comets/Asteroids, and clicking on "Click to download updated comet
data and add it to Guide", will also do the trick. (It essentially
just does automatically what you're describing doing manually.)

It is possible that you'll find that this method doesn't work,
because the MPC switched a while back from (unencrypted) http to
(encrypted) https. If so, you should download

http://projectpluto.com/tear2.exe

(about 150 KBytes) to your Guide folder. It should replace an
existing 'tear2.exe'.

Do that, and you should find that Guide can grab the comet data.
(You'll also find that it can get some VizieR and DSS downloads that
would otherwise be blocked. MPC is not the only site to switch from
http to https traffic... actually, I had to do that a while ago with
projectpluto.com.)

-- Bill

On 2018-03-15 08:49, SCOTT KRANZ s.kranz1@... [guide-user] wrote:
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> Ok, so am I doing this correctly?
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> I go to the MPC page downloading comet files for popular planetarium programs:
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> https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/SoftwareComets.html
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> Download the file for "Guide (Project Pluto)".  The file is named   "*Soft02Cmt.txt*"
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> Rename the file to   "*Soft02Cm.txt*"
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> Note that the last "t" is removed from the file name because Guide did not recognize the file with the "t".
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> Put the newly renamed file in the Guide folder.
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> ....just checking.  Thanks!
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> -Scott
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