Thank you for the advice, but to replace or update this file did not change
the situation for me.

At the moment I see a wide cloud front coming at my position in less than a
hour. So it is very likely that I can not record this night.

Regards
Gerhard
www.dangl.at

----- Original Message -----
From: "P. Clay Sherrod" <drclay@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Tonights asteroid pass


> it sounds like you need to update your asteroid MPC positions; this object
> is one of our
> targets and it was only a few arcseconds (about 14" as I remember) from
> predicted with the
> latest neatod.dat data. You can use this in Guide and change the name of
> it to
> "mpcorb.dat" (no quotes); keep the original file as neatod.dat and make a
> second copy of
> that file and rename to mpcorb.dat and place both in the Guide folder.
> This will allow
> you to acquire the position accurately for GO TO, and will also allow you
> to measure it
> accurately with the most up to date data on Charon.
>
> Note that the neatod.dat file is updated daily about 2:30 a.m. EDT, and is
> only 1.17 meg
> at present and contains all critical list asteroids that need
> attention....it sure beats
> downloading the entire MPC list every day.
>
> We update every afternoon before the observatories open up.
>
> Dr. Clay
> _____
> Arkansas Sky Observatories
> MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
> MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
> MPC H43 - Conway West
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