Cartes du Ciel Problem - Comet Elements

[steppenwolf]

I am having a problem updating the comet elements in Cartes du Ciel V2.76 I can connect to the server OK but then get the following error message:-

Read Bytes: 515 / Error: 302 Found

Any thoughts on what is going wrong?

[Merlin66]

Can't help with V2. But I've upgraded to V3.0.1.4 and the download for new orbits under "Set-up/ configure/ solar system/ comets/ load MPC file" gets straight through to Harvard and downloads the latest orbits for over 200 comets.

[lunator]

Steve

Have you dropped Patrick an email?

He is usually very good at responding.

Rgds

Ian

[steppenwolf]

Thanks for the replies folks. Why it is working with version 3 but not my version is a mystery and others have noticed the same problem. The solution (for now) is to go directly to the site, copy the data into Notepad and save it as Cometes.dat in c:\program files\ciel\cat\planet\

My thanks to 'Curls' on Astro-Chat for the temporary fix.

[davo]

Great! i've got the comet info.

But.... i'm having trouble with stars! Sounds silly but I cant seem to get faint stars. I cannot get "The Cheshire Cat" asterim and i've tried. The more stars button doesn't seem to work. Do i need to download anything else?

Thanks

Dave

[themos]

have you got the tycho-2 catalog?

[davo]

I guess not. No stars at all appear.

[themos]

go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64092&package_id=208104&release_id=455946

and get the cdc_tycho_catalog.zip file , then extract it to your skychart/cdc installation so that the "cat" directory matches.

[davo]

I have stars!!!!

Magic!!!! Thanks

I've set using bright star cat for zoomed out views and Tyco 2 cat for zoomed in views. I really like this program now. Comet Kushida looks a possible target & now i can star hop.

Cheers Themos. Clear skies to ya :hello1:

[themos]

:-)