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Old 20-10-2009, 04:16 PM
gary
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Argo Navis DTC and comet orbital elements

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Originally Posted by JethroB76 View Post
Thanks Gary.
So data in the format provided at that address requires no changes? Great
Hi Jeff,

That is correct. Rather than decide to introduce "yet another format" we made
the decision some time back to use an existing format. The format used by
TheSky is as good as any and a popular choice, so hence the decision.

As you can appreciate the nice thing about loading the actual orbital elements
is that Argo Navis can compute the position of the object from moment to
moment. It has a multi-tasking OS and there is a background task just
devoted to updating the positions of comets and asteroids. That means whenever
you observe, the positions are always accurate.

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