----- Original Message -----
From: Bill J. Gray <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@...>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 6:03 PM
Subject: [guide-user] Other ephemeris services


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> Andrea asked about extending support for NEOCP ephemerides to two
> other services: the Minor Planet Ephemeris service and the NEODyS
> service. If you download NEOCP.ZIP yet again, you should see that
> the list of togglable datasets now includes "MPC Minor Planet
> Ephemeris" and "NEODyS Ephemeris".
>
> As before, you may have to edit NEOCP.TDF to change the file
names.
> At present, they use the default mpeph2.com and neoibo,
respectively.
> You'll also probably notice that I essentially recycled the definition
> set up for the NEOCP ephemerides, adjusting slightly for the
different
> columns... and Andrea, be aware that I could only partially recycle
the
> Italian text, so you'll see some information in "Itallish" such as
> "Apparent motion in asc. retta" <grin>.
>
> Incidentally, there are two known oddities with the NEOCP
ephemerides
> that will also apply to these new services. Be sure to accept the
> default coordinate settings. For NEOCP, this is hours/minutes and
> degree/minutes; ask for, say, hours/minutes/seconds, and the
format
> changes, and the .TDF file doesn't figure it out correctly.
>
> Second, you'll probably see a clot of symbols at the vernal
equinox
> (0h0m0s, +0 0' 0"). Guide occasionally is misinterpreting header
lines
> as real data lines. I'll probably fix this on the next update.
>
> -- Bill
>
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Bill, I and my friends have no words to say you how we are happy for
this.
In Italy we say of a very clever man something like "He is a baba' ",
where the baba' is a very very good italian kake that we enjoy at
breakfast.
So. Bill, thank you, you are truly a baba'.
By
Andrea