Re: [guide-user] MPC Station update

Bill J Gray Feb 5, 2004

Hi David,

I've updated the list; you can grab it from

http://www.projectpluto.com/mpc_stat.dat

Save this as a text file in your Guide directory, and you'll be all set.

"...I don't know how you generate the Latitude component - otherwise
it is a simple matter of updating the file from the MPC obs list"

True. Unfortunately, the MPC provides "parallax constants", a
way of expressing one's location in cylindrical rather than polar
coordinates. I wrote a little routine that grabs the MPC file and
churns out the 'mpc_stat.dat' file. This _does_ mean the file needs
updating every so often.

A little "may be of interest page" about MPC stations:

http://www.projectpluto.com/obslinks.htm

-- Bill