>From: Philipp Salzgeber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi Michael, > >I just checked, and indeed Toutatis is not any more included in >http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2004/Soft06Bright.txt >or http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Unusual/Soft06Unusual.txt > >Here are the elements for Toutatis in the right form for Cartes Du Ciel: > >* 4179 Toutatis |2004 07 14.000|0.633609 |2.511599| >0.4698|128.1993 |274.8044 | 2000|334.0766 |15.30| 0.10| 0.00* > >Just add everything BETWEEN the stars and without any line-breaks which >could be introduced by email programs to the Asteroides.dat file (it >should be somewhere like: C:\Program Files\Ciel\cat\planet\Asteroides.dat).
Alternatively, when I want a customized asteroid list, I get it from the source as follows: 1) Go to <http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html> 2) Enter the names or numbers (or provisional designations, like "2000 SY132"), of the asteroids you want, in the first window. 3) Scroll down to the "format" section and select "The Sky". 4) Then click the "Get ephemerides" button. It will download a text file of elements to your computer. When the "save as" window pops up, change the file name from "elements.txt" to "asteroides.dat", and save it in the .\ciel\cat\planet directory where your old asteroides.dat file is. You can also get comets from the same page. Name the file "cometes.dat". >I suggest doing this while CdC is closed, afterwards Toutatis should >appear in the list of Asteroids! You can leave CdC running. Just click the "refresh" button in the asteroids window, after the file has been changed. -John _________________________________________________________________ Don�t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/1.XolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To Post a message, send it to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
