Minor Planet Downloads and DBPS

[theskyhound]

Just to clarify: the Nightly Planner has no bearing at all on the databases, so the date on the Nightly Planner is not a consideration when importing orbital elements. It only matters when you are calculating positions for the planner. In the case of the night of close approach, the Nightly Planner will do its calculations for the different times during the night, using the orbital elements that are appropriate for that time. This is true for all functions within SkyTools. Higher level code always tells the lower level code which asteroid it wants and what time it is, and a position is returned using the appropriate set of elements for that time.