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are there comets on here

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i need to know if there are comets on Stellarium. or if i can download them from somewhere.

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Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) said : 		#1

There's some information in the Stellarium Wiki:
http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Solar_System_Objects

You can use Andreas Steinel's on-line converter to get comet data from JPL's HORIZONS database in a format suitable for Stellarium's ssystem.ini:
http://projects.familie-steinel.de/stellarium-comet-jpl/

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