Re: TLE's for WOTS!

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>> ... Hyakutake ... ephemeris on the Web and decided I didn't have
>> enough math to convert it to something useable. ...
>>                                Don


(Earth satellite) TLE's can not really be made for comets,
since they are not in earth orbit. Although you could try
elcor (ftp://ftp.physics.ox.ac.uk/pub/sat/programs/ibmpc/pelcor.zip)
the comet moves faster than a satellite, so an approximate
orbit would be too close to Earth, and show considerable
daily parallax.

The Moon is more reasonable (and I have seen some "TLE's"),
but why not use Rob Matson's SkyMap, which computes and/or
displays Moon position to arcsecond accuracy (or better?)


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