[BAA Comets] MPC Acknowledgement

[denis buczynski]

Peter, 
I remember that you said you had changed your email address recently.Have you changed your emailer? The messages to MPC have to be sent in plain text. Some mailers do not always send only plain text even if you specify it to do so. This used to to happen to me with Windows Livemail and with BT/Yahoo mail. I send mine using Firefox Thunderbird, which Nick recommended and set up for me on my computer. Perhaps that could be the problem.Denis   


      From: Peter Carson <petercarson100 at gmail.com>
 To: BAA comet group <comets-disc at britastro.org> 
 Sent: Tuesday, 23 January 2018, 15:37
 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

------------------------------------------------------------------------

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 ***
------------------------------------------------------------------------

If we need to communicate designations or problems to you, a further message
will follow when this batch has been processed.

**IMPORTANT NOTICE**
Note that at times (particularly near New Moon or during northern-
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for new objects back to you.

Although your message is being acknowledged now, it is not
guaranteed that it will be processed immediately.

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