[Kstars-devel] Re: About comets.dat

[Bogdan Marinov]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Alexey Khudyakov
<alexey.skladnoy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What do you think of this ?
>>
> Very nice idea. Also it would be reasonable to add ability to download
> latest data to kstars. Comet catalog become obsoloete faster than
> software

I've written some code for Stellarium that parses the one-line element
format used by the MPC. The plug-in itself can download lists from
their website and send search requests to their online service.

Most of the code is here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/files/head:/plugins/SolarSystemEditor/
You can reuse it, with proper attribution, of course. :)

Regards,
Bogdan Marinov
(Stellarium plug-in developer)