The MPC site was recently hacked. Until they can go through everything and clean it up, they're not updating it, but have set up a mirror site at <http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/mpc.html> The file you're looking for is at <http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/Soft06Cmt.txt>
replace your old cometes.dat file with that. The others (bright/unusual asteroids, and a few other interesting categories) are available through <http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/Ephemerides/Soft06.html> And you can get an elements file for any asteroid(s)/comet(s) at <http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html> (under "format", select "TheSky"). -John ----- Original Message ---- > From: Geoff <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, March 27, 2010 9:05:23 AM > Subject: [skychart-discussion] Unable to download elements for C/2010 F4 > (Machholz) > > I'm using CDC Ver 2.76c. For some odd reason when I used the online comet > resources to download the latest comet discoveries, it didn't include C/2010 > F4 > (Machholz). This is strange as RTGUI+S had no problem downloading it. Has > there > been a change to the download site? According to the CDC online window, > the site is http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/Soft06Cmt.txt . > Is > this correct? I'd really like to track this comet. --geoff ASV > Inc Melbourne Australia PS: Hi Ken Harrison, we must catch up one > day. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups > Links > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/join (Yahoo! > ID required) > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > > > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
