A friend has created a new "add_mpc.hee" that points to the alternate website of
gideon vanbuitenen to download the "Soft02cm.txt" file for guide9. I have copied it
directly into this e-mail. So just copy everything between the pair of double lines
below and replace the "add_mpc.hee" file in your guide folder. I checked it and it
works fine.

Larry Wood
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The ^Minor Planet Center
(MPC)//xhttps://www.minorplanetcenter.net/cfa/ps/mpc.html^ and the
^IMCCE//xhttp://www.imcce.fr/fr^
provide orbital elements for comets. Guide updates its list of comets
using both sources; MPC gives currently-observable comets, IMCCE all
comets since about 1995. (Data for historical comets is already built
into the Guide DVD.) You can click on the following to download
some of these files, getting orbital data for newly-found objects and
improving orbits for already known objects. About 600 KBytes will be
downloaded.

^Click to download updated comet data and add it to
Guide//dhttp://astro.vanbuitenen.nl/cometelements?format=guide
soft02cm.txt;dhttps://www.projectpluto.com/eltdat.txt eltdat.txt;a2789^

Guide can also import other orbital elements if they're provided in
the "eight-line format", or the "one-line format" used for Daily Orbit
Updates. You wouldn't normally do this, but if you have generated an
orbit using Find_Orb, for example, you could import the resulting file
of orbital elements using the following command.
dhttps://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/Soft02Cmt.txt soft02cm.txt

^Add MPC asteroids/comets//!2052^

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On 2019-09-15 9:41 AM, 'P. Clay Sherrod' drclay@... [guide-user] wrote:
> At this time, since MPC is failing to keep up the databases (since June) of important objects that need observations, particularly comets, I suggest using the alternative database for ALL comets:
> http://astro.vanbuitenen.nl/cometelements?format=guide
> which has been graciously provided to GUIDE (and other platform) users; it is updated daily from the DOU and contains all comets.
> Simply SAVE PAGE in your Guide folder as "softcm.txt" and then again as "comets.dat" for use in both Guide and Charon. Refresh Guide on your computer and all will show up current to your present day.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Koch astroelectronic@... [guide-user] <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> Reply-To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
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> Sent: 9/15/2019 10:19:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [guide-user] Download efemerides for guide9.1 from the newly discovered interstellar comet C / 2019 Q4 (Borisov)
> __________________________________________________________
>
> Am 15.09.2019 um 12:33 schrieb pastorgalactico@... [guide-user]:
>>
>> Hello;
>>
>> Even after updating the kite base on C / 2019 Q4 (Borisov) recently
>> discovered it does not appear in guide 9.1
>>
>> Does the update not work or is it still too early for updates?
>>
>
> Here are instructions how I added the comet to Guide 9.1
>
> You find the orbital elements on this website:
> https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K19/K19RB3.html
> Search for "Orbital Elements" on that page and use the first block of
> elements (for Epoch 2019 Dec. 23.0)
>
> Now in Guide click on Extras / Asteroid_Comet_Options /
> Edit_Comet_Asteroid_Data / new_Comet
> and enter these data:
> Name: use whatever you want
> Date of Perihelion: use the "Epoch" data, but in different order:
> 9.42985 Dec 2019
> Perihelion Distance: use the "q" value
> Eccentricity: use the "e" value
> Argument of perihelion: use the "Peri." value
> Long. of ascending node: use the "Node" value
> Inclination: use the "Incl." value
> For Absolute Magnitude use 10, I did find this value by try and error.
> Slope parameter: I don't know what it is, leave it at 5.
>
> Then the comet will be visible in Guide. Don't forget to set the comet
> brightness in Display / Data_shown to a big enough value, or use "on".
>
> If anyone knows how to automatize this process, please let us know.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
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