[Kstars-devel] New comets file for Kstars -- needs checking but 17P/Holmes looks good

[Mike Rosseel]

Hi all,

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.
If someone can provide me with a script I can add it to the cron jobs of my
server.

PS: Only obstacle will be the login/password for upload, but once the script
is there I'm sure we'll find a solution.

regards,
Mike

On 10/31/07, Jason Harris <kstars at 30doradus.org> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks a lot for your contribution.  I'm sorry your message took 4 days
> to get posted, but we actually have an updated comets.dat file now,
> which you can get with the Get New Stuff tool (Ctrl+D).
>
> Your comets.dat file looks good, but in case you submit another update
> in the future, note that I've updated the README.ephemerides file with
> more comets that need to be removed from the list.  Any comet with a
> "D/" prefix has "disappeared", so should not be in the list.  Also,
> there are a number of comets with large, negative MJD dates and
> eccentricities of 1.0 (or > 0.99).  These are historical comets that
> were on one-pass parabolic orbits through the inner slar system, and are
> never coming back.  These should also be removed from the list.
>
> Thanks, and again, I apologize that I didn't see your message until today.
>
>
> Jason
>
>
> David Craig wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I think I have properly edited a new comets.dat file for kstars, using
> the
> > instructions at:
> >
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeedu/kstars/README.ephemerides?revision=623819&view=markup
> >
> > I noticed that in the most recent kstars comet didn't put 17P/Holmes in
> the
> > right place (now in outburst!), so I got the JPL comets file that was
> > updated on 2007-Oct-27 02:10 -0700.
> >
> > I found that kstars would hang on reading this file after the header
> lines
> > were removed, and the new version from JPL was 3 spaces wider in the
> first
> > column,
> > so I used a regular expression in Geany to remove the 3 spaces.
> >
> > I hope this is useful.  Someone more experienced than me in kstars
> should
> > check the locations of some more comets to see if it is really OK.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -dwc
> >
> >
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