[vsnet-chat 605] Re: IAUCs 6736 and 6737

[J.JAHN@ABBS.heide.de (Jost Jahn)]

Fraser wrote

> The majority of observers do not have access to the latest
> catalogues, news, software, online services, and other goodies most
> of us old hands take for granted nowadays.  The new chums may not
> be aware of the need for a precise and accurate position, a
> magnitude, and some basic checks for known objects and any movement
> of the target.  I reckon I have saved dozens of inexperienced
> observers from acute and public embarrassment; without me even
> having to go outside.

But they can have access to planetarium programs and each potential want- 
to-be-a-discoverer should have access to GUIDE. A friend of mine (Hartwig  
Lüthen) produced this nice chart with the slogan "with GUIDE it wouldn't  
have happened" or better "with GUIDE you would have not made Marsden  
angry..." :-)

> Unfortunately with asteroids some commercial programs work from
> only one set of orbital elements.  AFAIK only GUIDE and The_Sky use
> sets of rigorously pre-computed osculating elements for their
> asteroids.  Does anyone know what software was used to check this
> instance?

As I demonstrated above...



      Jost Jahn
FAX:  05824-4041
      j.jahn@abbs.heide.de


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