Scott Kranz Apr 28, 2006
>of
> Both values represent elements of the comet's intristic magnitude
> brightness of the comet.the "Slope
> Starting with "6.0" in your example, is listed in Guide as
> parameter" or angle at which the comet is illuminated by the sun.comet's
> The "8.0" is listed in Guide as "Absolute magnitude" or the
> magnitude at 1AU as seen from the sum.is
>
> These numbers are very tricky to play with and authoratative info
> necessary to get accurate results.199.3073
>
> 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
> > 2000.0 8.0 6.0 MPC 483843rd
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what the 2nd (value 6.0 in above example) and
> > (value 8.0 in above example) from last fields are?as a
> >
> > When you get GENERATED files from the MPC they both are returned
> > value of 0.0. GUIDE recognizes that as having a magnitude 99.0!
> >
> > Thanks!!!!!
> >
> > -Scott K.
> >
>