Re: [guide-user] recent observatory codes

Andrew Hood Aug 18, 2014

On 19/08/2014 1:41 AM, 'Glen Deen' glen.deen@... [guide-user] wrote:
 

Guide9 recognizes older observatory codes for the location.

It does not recognize my observatory code, H19, which was
obtained a few years ago. Is there a way to update the list?

What I do for find_orb and should work equally well for guide is run get_ObsCodes.sh which is:

====snip====
#!/bin/bash
wget -N http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/lists/ObsCodesF.html && \
chmod 644 ObsCodesF.htm*
wget -N http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html && \
lynx -dump ObsCodes.html > ObsCodes.htm &&
chmod 644 ObsCodes.htm*
====snip====

It works in Cygwin. You can convert to a cmd file (leave out the chmod) if you have native Windoze versions of wget and lynx.

Andrew

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