Dear Bill, now that you have made GUIDE able to load the NEOCP data, I have
2 more requests on the same subject, the NEO/Asteroids search and confirm.
As by sure you already know, there are at least three different
organizations that can furnish the ephemerides for such objects: NEOCP is
one, the others are the
MP Ephemeris service
http://sao-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html
and the NEODys Ephemeris prediction
http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo.
All of them make topocentric ephemerides, so you can understand how pleasant
coluld be to have the data we need ready and almost automatically on the
GUIDE map, moreover beacuse the three services are complanar each other,
giving different data, all very useful for our search.
The problem is that the data are given in different form, so the other two
are obviously not compatible with NEOCP.tdf-
I know that we are probably requesting a big effort and that you have many
other things to do for GUIDE, but I think that many many of us are
interested and involved in MP-NEO search and confirm, and this facility may
speed up a lot our hobby (hobby? I think it is becoming a very nice unpaid
job!).
Can you make something similar to the NEOCP.tdf for the other two datasets?
I hope your answer will be yes, but even if it will be negative, thank you
again for your patience.
Andrea