Hi all,<br><br>If we weren't into automation, we wouldn't be using a PC, so I suggest automating the creation of the 'get new stuff' comet file.<br>If someone can provide me with a script I can add it to the cron jobs of my server.
<br><br>PS: Only obstacle will be the login/password for upload, but once the script is there I'm sure we'll find a solution.<br><br>regards,<br>Mike<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Jason Harris</b> <<a href="mailto:kstars@30doradus.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">kstars@30doradus.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi David,<br><br>Thanks a lot for your contribution. I'm sorry your message took 4 days<br>to get posted, but we actually have an updated comets.dat file now,<br>which you can get with the Get New Stuff tool (Ctrl+D).
<br><br>Your comets.dat file looks good, but in case you submit another update<br>in the future, note that I've updated the README.ephemerides file with<br>more comets that need to be removed from the list. Any comet with a
<br>"D/" prefix has "disappeared", so should not be in the list. Also,<br>there are a number of comets with large, negative MJD dates and<br>eccentricities of 1.0 (or > 0.99). These are historical comets that
<br>were on one-pass parabolic orbits through the inner slar system, and are<br>never coming back. These should also be removed from the list.<br><br>Thanks, and again, I apologize that I didn't see your message until today.
<br><br>Jason<br><br><br>David Craig wrote:<br>> Greetings:<br>><br>> I think I have properly edited a new comets.dat file for kstars, using the<br>> instructions at:<br>> <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeedu/kstars/README.ephemerides?revision=623819&view=markup" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeedu/kstars/README.ephemerides?revision=623819&view=markup</a><br>><br>> I noticed that in the most recent kstars comet didn't put 17P/Holmes in the<br>> right place (now in outburst!), so I got the JPL comets file that was
<br>> updated on 2007-Oct-27 02:10 -0700.<br>><br>> I found that kstars would hang on reading this file after the header lines<br>> were removed, and the new version from JPL was 3 spaces wider in the first<br>
> column,<br>> so I used a regular expression in Geany to remove the 3 spaces.<br>><br>> I hope this is useful. Someone more experienced than me in kstars should<br>> check the locations of some more comets to see if it is really OK.
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