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Originally Posted by Shark Bait
No argument there Joe. The makers of Starry Night do not include some NEO's in their automatic updates. Instead I went through the process of manually adding the required data to Starry Night V6.3 and the results were way off when compared to the JPL data. Plotting the path of the asteroid on a paper star chart using the JPL data for my location was the solution.
Fingers crossed for clear skies.
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Stu,
I only purchased v6 a week ago using the special $99 pricing deal they have for SN Pro plus 6. Probably means SN v7.0 will be out next week
So I'm running v6.4.3. I updated my objects list a few days ago after installing and DA 14 is in my SN object list but still generates completely wrong coordinates. It's not just parallax shifted but looks like the wrong inclination. I haven't compared the elements but it's obvious the orbital elements are very wrong. Inclination is out by 60 or so degrees.
The path shows DA 14 traveling between a point south of the SMC to a point south of the LMC.
The horizons path has it traveling mostly northwards accelerating during the night with a small and pretty constant eastwards motion.
Joe