[BAA Comets] MPC Acknowledgement

[Roger Dymock]

Hi Peter,

Want to send me an example so I can add my four pennyworth ?

Regards
Roger Dymock
Skype; rogerdymock67
Tel; 023 92647986

-----Original Message-----
From: Comets-disc [mailto:comets-disc-bounces at lists.britastro.org] On Behalf Of Peter Carson
Sent: 23 January 2018 15:15
To: BAA comet group <comets-disc at britastro.org>
Subject: [BAA Comets] MPC Acknowledgement

Hi All,
I've just noticed that whenever I send an astrometry report to the MPC I get an automatic acknowledgment that says "Number of observation lines read = 0"
What does this mean? Hopefully it doesn't indicate that the the MPC's computer didn't read any of my observations.
See example below.

Peter Carson

-----Original Message-----
From: autoack at ubasti.cfa.harvard.edu
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 3:04 PM
To: PETERCARSON100 at gmail.com
Subject: Acknowledgement

The receipt of a message (probably containing observations) is hereby acknowledged.

Your message's ACK identification string is:
MPCReport file updated 2018.01.21 20:21:50

The formatting code returned the following statistics:
Number of header lines read      =        7
Number of observation lines read =        0

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FEEDBACK ON COMPLIANCE OF YOUR HEADER'S TEL LINE WITH THE DOCUMENTATION

Your submission contained the following TEL line:
TEL 0.32-m reflector + CCD + f/5.4 focal reducer This is what our processing software read or converted it to:
TEL 0.32-m reflector + CCD + f/5.4 focal reducer

  *** Your TEL line was formatted correctly ***
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