thanks! OK!

But in the recent update of Guide 8, i do not see, in Extras menu, in Guide , the option, "Use MPCORB", both in gray color, than in function! Perhaps is no more active this function?

Thanks!

Bye!

Alfredo

----- Original Message -----
From: Don Ellington
To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Use of mpcorb.dat





http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/MPCORB.html

click on one of the links
login with
username: anonymous
password: your email address(you have to type an email address
something@...)

Don

alfredo.caronia wrote:
>
>
> "Use of mpcorb.dat in Guide: To use the datasets in Guide, move either
> the mpcorb.dat or mpcorbcr.dat file into the Guide directory. The
> Extras menu in Guide has an option, "Use MPCORB", shut off by default.
> (If it is grayed out, it means that Guide can't find either .dat
> file.) When you use the toggle, Guide will swap to use of MPCORB data.
>
> This has several pros and cons. Foremost among the advantages of
> MPCORB is that it is completely up to date, reflecting the latest
> orbits computed by the Minor Planet Center. The first Guide 7.0 CDs
> were made in November 1998, and plenty of asteroids have been found
> since then or had their existing orbits improved. For example, MPCORB
> contains numbered asteroids past 14000; the first Guide 7.0 CDs only
> go up to 9826. "
>
> This is the in guide , but
> I am not able to activate and display this function
>
>

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