Re: Precision of minor planets positions

cspratt2001 Jun 6, 2005

Make sure that your location longitude and latitude are correct and
that your pc clock is very precise.

Chris. Spratt
Victoria, BC

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "Claudio Costa" <c.costa@m...> wrote:
> Bill,
> I checked the occultation of HIP 83097 by 7 Iris on May the 22nd at 22h
> 1.4m UTC following the prediction by Ian Manek of IOTA es: with
> surprise I found that Guide 8 (25 Feb version) places Iris 3.3 minutes
> of arc off the target star. I downloaded the most recent version of
> MPCORB from the Minor Planet Center web site. Same result.
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Claudio Costa