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Hi Greg,
My ST4v is still using the Current Comets from 1 July. I've done the manual update several times since 1 Aug & it didn't seem to help.
Just did another Update & the GRS file was updated, but not the Current Comets.
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Hi Phil,
Didn't you have this problem one before? Try deleting your current comets list and see if it doesn't update properly.
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Ok, this is baffling. I just deleted my current comets list and it updated with the July version. When I browse to the list using the Get Observing Lists feature it claims its from June! But the dates on the files on the server are all August 1. I'll try to get this sorted out as soon as I stop banging my head on my desk.
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Deleated & redid the Update, but the Current Comets still say 1 July. I don't remember which comets were in there before. There isn't an entry for 2021 O1 though.
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I uploaded the files again and it appears that everything is working Ok. But this has happened before and I don't understand it. Its like my ISP is somehow replacing the files with older versions after I upload, but that seems unlikely. Maybe it has to do with some sort of internet cache in Windows.
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2021-08-05, 06:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 2021-08-05, 06:57 PM by theskyhound.)
I have a project to upgrade and automate the current comet process, which I work on for a day at the end of month. I use the latest code to do the update on the 1st. As a result the process changes a bit from month to month. So it's possible that I made a mistake this month. But I know that I saw something very weird when I browsed the current comets folder. It initially listed all of the files as being from June in the descriptions. Then they all magically said August, even though I only updated the comets. That has to be some sort of cache issue. I'll keep looking into it.
My goal is to make the process of updating the comets more automated so that I can do it much more often, and be less prone to mistakes on my end. But there will always be hand curation of the observations, I just want to make that as simple as possible and to automate everything else as much as I can. Currently I spend pretty much the entire 1st day of every month updating the comets and my Comet Chasing web site, which I am also working on an updated format for.
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It's updated to the Aug 1 comet list now. C/2021 O1 is there.
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Speaking of "less prone to mistakes", the way you made it easy to import a single time of osculating elements from Horizons, just wanted to praise the way it is now accomplished. I know I had bugged you incessantly for years about a way to work with gravitational perturbations of NEOs. Much less error prone than previously implemented.
