KStars recent comets and recent Near Earth Objects (Asteroids) lists

[valentin at boettcher.cf]

Comets are filtered by magnitude and downloaded from JPL. You can change the threshold in the solar system settings.

On July 12, 2017 5:41:50 PM GMT+02:00, John Sved <john.sved at onlinehome.de> wrote:
>Hello.  This is my first post here.
>
>Are the correct sources for Comets, NEAs and Supernovae included in
>KStars? In Sky Chart / CdC comets are at
>http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/Soft00Cmt.txt
>and Asteroids (including NEAs) are at
>http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/MPCORB/MPCORB.DAT.gz Is there a
>way
>for a user to nominate or at least see the links of the sources which
>are used in KStars? Similar concern for new supernovae. Two examples:
>Comet C/2015 V2 (Johnson) does not appear in the KStars comets list but
>it has at present been rather prominent.
>How is it designated if it is actually in the list already?
>
>The new What is Interesting feature looks very nice but, but again, I
>cannot find Comet C/2015 V2 (Johnson)
>
>The Near Earth Object 2014 JO25 was visible in amateur telescopes last
>April 20th. I had to use CdC to find it.
>NEOs really need a separate listing so that they are not hidden in the
>list of well known asteroids. The same applies to comets and
>supernovae.
>
>These really new or currently interesting objects need to be listed
>separately as they are really very interesting! KStars is my favorite.

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