Yes, it does. thank you!

Now where can you get that info at? The Minor Planet Center does
not provide that data.

Thanks again! -Scott


--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "Mark S Deprest" <msdeprest@...>
wrote:

>
> Both values represent elements of the comet's intristic magnitude

of

> brightness of the comet.
> Starting with "6.0" in your example, is listed in Guide as

the "Slope

> parameter" or angle at which the comet is illuminated by the sun.
> The "8.0" is listed in Guide as "Absolute magnitude" or the

comet's

> magnitude at 1AU as seen from the sum.
>
> These numbers are very tricky to play with and authoratative info

is

> necessary to get accurate results.
>
> I hope this sheds a little light on the problem.
>
> Mark S Deprest
>
> --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "Scott Kranz" <s.kranz1@> wrote:
> >
> > This is a basic line from the comet data file that GUIDE uses:
> >
> > P/Faye (4P) 15.4815 11 2006
> > 0.0 1.667245 0.566586 9.0317 205.0300

199.3073

> > 2000.0 8.0 6.0 MPC 48384
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what the 2nd (value 6.0 in above example) and

3rd

> > (value 8.0 in above example) from last fields are?
> >
> > When you get GENERATED files from the MPC they both are returned

as a

> > value of 0.0. GUIDE recognizes that as having a magnitude 99.0!
> >
> > Thanks!!!!!
> >
> > -Scott K.
> >
>