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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
For some reason I can't get it to upload to Cartes du Ciel either!
Please tell me where it is or what it is near.
but also, please don't give me a bunch of numbers like Andrews above. I can't speak Numerics  |
Ken, astronomy is largely numbers, but we have programs like Stellarium/CdC/C2A/TheSky to do the arithmetic for us.
And in particular Seiichi Yoshida's
Comet for Windows. For some examples of it at work see
http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html APOD linked to the C/2009 P1 Garradd page listed there the other day.
What version of CdC?
2.76 will import comets from
http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau.../Soft06Cmt.txt
3.x from
http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau.../Soft00Cmt.txt
Look under "Setup->Internet" and "Setup->Solar System" (3.x) or whatever the 2.x menus were called.
CdC tells me that in the 24 hours from 7:30am today C/2009 P1 will move 59.5 arcmin. Tonight it wil be about half way between SAO 106796 and 106797 and 1.5 deg from NGC 7025.
Andrew