2018 Jun 24
Version 1.43

DISCSTATUS

DISCSTATUS is Freeware, but your are not allowed
to change the output, if you publish it and/or
remove the adress of the author.

This program analyze the DISCTATUS file of the MPC
to find the asteroids, which may be on the future
list of numbered asteroids, discoverey by the own
observatory.

Due to the very special discovery regulations of
the MPC only few principal designations of amateur
observers will follow into a official numbered
discovery.

The MPC DISCSTATUS file lists only the official
announced numbered discoveries of the observatory,
all prinicipal designations followed by numbered
discoveries of another observatory and all
principal designations without numbering until now.

Here take the program DISCSTATUS the job. It
analyzes the DISCSTATUS file, download all
observation of the objects and checks the
observation for objects, which will be numbered
and discovered by the own observatory (if no
other identifications will be added).
One-Opposition orbits will be seperated from
multiple-opposition orbits, because the later
objects are more probably related to the own
observatory.

DISCSTATUS is a command line tool. You should copy
all files in the ZIP into one *empty* directory.
The wget.exe is enclosed (this tool gets the
html files from the MPC). Then just start
DISCSTATUS.exe from the command line.

If you want to analyze your own DISCSTATUS file,
copy it into this folder and overwrite my file.
The file has no extension, just DISCSTATUS!

Please note, that there are some additional files,
which you should not erase. If something don't
work, just reinstall all files.

At first run it downloads all files and need some
time for this. I set a time limit of several sec
between each download, otherwise the MPC will
block your IP address.

You see the notes for each single
object. If you run it again, the download will
not be made and it runs very fast :-) But be aware,
that then only old data are used for decisions,
which object may be yours and which not!
Otherwise you must delete all html files (*.html).

You will get a short screen statistic.
A more detailed statistic is given in DISCSTATUS.LOG
The file DISCSTATUS.OBS conatins all observations.

To save the bandwidth at MPC all observations
will be downloaded only one time. If you want to
analyze a *new* DISCSTATUS, you must erase all
*.html files in the directory. 

Jost Jahn
Smaeswai 4
25946 Nebel
Germany
discstatusr@jostjahn.de