[BAA Comets] MPC data

[Martin Mobberley]

The Japanese amateur Kazuo Kinoshita has a web page offering comet text 
file elements in 5 different formats including The Sky and Guide.
See 2/3rds down his page at:

http://jcometobs.web.fc2.com/

The Guide file is up to C/2019 M3 (Atlas), so a bit behind JPL, but far 
more up to date than the MPC.

Martin


 >Owen,

Yes, the lists of comets that the MPC generate for various software 
tools have not been updated since May 13. The last comet in these files 
is C/2019 J2 (Palomar) but it is way off track now.

This is a pain for those of us using software to control telescopes etc.

The JPL comet elements file:

https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/dat/ELEMENTS.COMET

is up to date, it has C/2019 N1 (ATLAS), but it doesn't include 
magnitude parameters.

If this goes on much longer I'll need to generate some scripts to make 
the Soft06Cmt.txt file I use in TheSky from the JPL file.

Nick.<