the download from the Harvard site only contains data for bright asteroids
at opposition during the current year. for the complete list, download the
much larger astorb.dat file from the Lowell site. to get asteroids to show
on your charts, you need to select them from the catalog list just like
comets.

peace,
jon


"Esmail Bonakdarian" wrote in message
...
hi,

quick simple question .. what do I have to do to be able to locate
asteroids
with Cartes du ciel? I have v 2.75 by the way.

I have tried a few things, but w/o success.

Also, the file the program downloads from the harvard site doesn't contain
ceres (?? - this looks like a problem with the site, not CdC) and the file
is placed into cat\planet\ASTEROIDS.DAT

for some reason I can't get this catalog to show up in CdC or load.

I must be dense, can someone help me out please?

Thanks,
Esmail
PS: There is a yahoo group for this program, but it seems it's only used
for announcments by Patrick.
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http://www.cs.mercer.edu/bonak
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