Orbital Elements: Bright Minor Planets 2009
This page lists links to orbital elements for bright minor planets at
opposition in 2009 in formats suitable for loading into a number of popular
planetarium-type software packages.
Disclaimer: Mention here of a particular software package does not in any way represent an endorsement of the product.
The elements can be saved to your local machine by using your browser's `Save As' facility, ensuring that you select `Plain text' as the format for the saved document.
This page may be freely pointed-to from your own Web page but elements offered here are intended for your own personal use and must not be further distributed.
Elements are currently available for the following packages:
- MPC format
- SkyMap (SkyMap Software)
- Guide (Project Pluto)
- xephem (E. Downey)
- Home Planet (J. Walker)
- MyStars! (Relative Data, Inc.)
- TheSky (Software Bisque)
- Starry Night (SiennaSoft)
- Deep Space (D. Chandler)
- PC-TCS (D. Harvey)
- Earth Centered Universe (Nova Astronomics)
- Dance of the Planets (ARC)
- SkyChart III (Southern Stars Software)
- Voyager II (Carina Software)
- SkyTools (CapellaSoft)
- Autostar (Meade Instruments)
Data for further packages will be added when data on the proprietary
formats used for the storage of orbital elements is made available by the
software authors. Software authors (only) may use
this feedback
form to report full details on the formats and sample lines.
Alternatively, this information may be e-mailed to
gwilliams@cfa.harvard.edu.
Disclaimer: CBAT/MPC reserve the right not to include data for a particular package.
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