Hello Bill,

> The next update I post will give, in 'more info' for asteroids and
> comets, rates of motion on each axis. (A speed and position angle are
> currently given.) Thus, you get comments such as
>
> Speed of apparent motion: 2.999'/hour at position angle 135.8
> Motion is -36.15 RA minutes/day in RA, -51.85 arcminutes/day in dec

thank you very much for this improvement. No more handling with an
external pocket calculator for me and the FS-2 telescope control
system to convert the motion of comets and minor planets to the
desires values.

Bernd, back from Spain with 200 seen Leonids on a sky of 2 lim mag


Bernd Brinkmann
Herne, Germany

http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Bernd.A.Brinkmann/index.html