[Kstars-devel] Another ephemerides update

[Mike Rosseel]

Hi Jason,

Is the comet file generation a manual job at the moment? Since comet
ephemerides are already published for other planetarium software, a
scheduled script on a server could keep the kstars file up to date. I
guess the question is:

- how are the kstars comet files generated?
- is this done manually? If so, can we automate it :)

regards,
Mike

On 1/15/07, Jason Harris <jharris at 30doradus.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If you've downloaded the 2007.01 update of the ephemerides, you may notice an
> enormous cloud of comets in the vicinity of Canis Major.  This is an
> artifact, caused by the inclusion of SOHO and SOLARWIND comets in the JPL
> database.  These comets are discovered by spacecraft monitoring the Sun, and
> they actually fall into the Sun shortly after discovery.  I wish JPL would
> prefix their name with "D/" instead of "C/" (which is supposed to denote a
> comet which is lost).
>
> Anyway, I have removed these comets from trunk, and have also updated the Get
> New Stuff sources.  This time I correctly incremented the version number, so
> all you have to do is grab the new file.  You also need to restart KStars to
> get the comets removed from the display...I'll have to look into that,
> because it shouldn't be necessary.
>
> regards,
> Jason
>
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