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    Stellarium & Comets
    From: Bob Goethe
    Date: 2022 Jan 7, 15:09 -0800

    I realize this is off topic as pertains to navigation, but I would appreciate it if anybody could point me to a web page that talks about the MPC file format for getting comets into Stellarium.

    I am interested in entering a historical comet into Stellarium.  I know these things about the comet:

    • eccentricity
    • perihelion distance
    • Inclination
    • argument of perihelion
    • longitude of ascending node
    • Perihelion date

    I found link on a page from the Rochester Institute of Technology that would have, allegedly, explained the MPC file format...but the link was dead.

    Thanks,

    Bob Goethe

       
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