P. Clay Sherrod Feb 28, 2010
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From: "barringtonri" <pecorp@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 6:00 PM
Subject: [guide-user] Re: Struggling with MPC downloads
> Geeze Doc,
>
> I thought it was your brother who was the computer wiz. Thank you so much.
>
> Pete
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> --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "P. Clay Sherrod" <drclay@...> wrote:
>>
>> Actually it is very easy to save: go ahead and open the file and then save it as it is
>> to
>> Guide; once done, then open the file again and SAVE as and make sure that it saves as
>> "mpcorb.dat" file rather than an mpcorb.txt file.
>>
>> A much easier and far shorter download is to simply go to the MPCORB files on MPC at
>> this
>> time, and click on the "TODAY" file which is substantially smaller: only 1.34 meg.
>>
>> Once that is open, (it is a .text file) save to somewhere on your hard drive. Open the
>> file once saved and then Save As "mpcorb.dat" and make sure that the file type in the
>> save
>> window is set to "All Files"
>>
>> You will have virtually every important NEO visible to normal telescopes that are
>> needing
>> observations.....tens of thousands of them.
>>
>> Dr. Clay
>> _____
>> Arkansas Sky Observatories
>> MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
>> MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
>> MPC H43 - Conway West
>> http://www.arksky.org/
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "barringtonri" <pecorp@...>
>> To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 3:01 PM
>> Subject: [guide-user] Struggling with MPC downloads
>>
>>
>> > Ahhh Man! Ever since that jerk hacked the MPC they've been struggling to set up a
>> > clean
>> > hack-proof mirror site. Some things are back up and running at
>> > http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/MPCORB.html
>> > but options are limited.
>> >
>> > To refresh/update the main MPCORB.DAT file, there's no longer the option to save vs
>> > open. It just opens. And it's impossibly large.
>> >
>> > There is a compressed version that downloads, but it's in a linux friendly GZIP
>> > format.
>> > Has anyone running Win XP figured out how to deal with a .GZ format?
>> >
>> > I've spent hours on GnuWin32, but in the end that turns out to be just a compression
>> > program, and doesn't seem to open anything.
>> >
>> > Pretty much out of business for astrometric work right now.
>> >
>> > Pete Peterson
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