--- Bob Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sander,
> Bring up "Catalogs" and select the Asteroid tab. You will see on the 
> left two radio buttons "CBAT" probably the one selected and one 
> marked "Astorb", select the Astorb button. There is also a "1==" and 
> a box that probably contains a zero, this is the starting asteroid 
> number. Change it to 2000. Under that "Max. NB" it is maximum number 
> displayed. 500 is ok but you can change it to whatever. Hit 
> the "Refresh" button and 2025 Nortia should be the 25th one down the 
> list select it and it should display on the chart.
>  Bob
> PS Astorb can be updated buy using the same Online Resource menu.

For some reason the download of astorb isn't working for me right now.  I
recently had a similar problem with another ftp site, so this may be a problem
on my computer, but if others run into this, I found a workaround.  In the
extres.ini file in your ciel directory, find the following section:

; Asteroids database from Lowell Observatory
;
[ASTORB]
url=ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.dat.gz
info=http://asteroid.lowell.edu/
;mirror file :
;url=ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/cats/B/astorb/astorb.dat.gz
;

Then replace the line:
url=ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.dat.gz
with the mirror site url:
url=ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/cats/B/astorb/astorb.dat.gz

so the whole section is now:

; Asteroids database from Lowell Observatory
;
[ASTORB]
url=ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/cats/B/astorb/astorb.dat.gz
info=http://asteroid.lowell.edu/
;mirror file :
;url=ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/cats/B/astorb/astorb.dat.gz
;


Works for me, even though I hardly know what ftp means ;)

-John


 
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