If you are looking for the info on P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (73P) and
all of it's components, try <http://www.aerith.net/index.html>
Seiichi Yoshida provides a wealth of info about comets!
Mark S Deprest

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "Scott Kranz" <s.kranz1@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
> > >
> >
>