NEO Planner GEO settings, explanations

NEO Planner GEO settings - Explanations

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IAU Code Longitude IPGeolocation Create Account Load NEOfixer

These settings are the first step in getting NEO Planner up and running.

Here you define theGeo settings data of NEO Planner.
It is important to enter all information very carefully. And remember to set up your own free account with IP GeoLocation.

Plausibility checks or actions are usually only carried out after leaving the cursor in the input field.

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IAU Observatory Code

As an example, F51 serves as an observatory site of the IAU. F51 Pan-STARRS, Haleakala on Maui detected a lot of NEO.
Enter your three-digit IAU code here and place the cursor on another field or push the TAB key.
You can create as many IAU codes as you want, each one has its own settings area.
If more than one IAU code is created, a selection screen will be displayed when launching NEO Planner.

If the Minor Planet Center has not yet released a new code, you will have to enter the coordinates manually at the top (invisible in the image).

Longitude, latitude and altitude

The position data of the observatory are determined automatically based on the entered IAU code.
A web service from Bill Gray's Pluto Project is used for this purpose, which makes the converted parallax data available via an interface.

The position is displayed in the web browser via an interface to Google Maps.

IPGeolocation.io API Key

Why is the free API key required for IP geolocation?
With the help of the key, NEO Planner can determine the necessary geodata for your location each time it is called.
These include, for example, the times of sunset or noon or midnight of the current day.
Together with some other individual settings, these data are required to calculate the observation slot within the observable objects are determined.

So that NEO Planner can always calculate with the current daily data,
it is absolutely necessary to end NEO Planner with X after the final end of a session so that all temporary files are deleted.

Every NEO Planner user has to request their own API key.
Enter your API Key of Free IP Lookup API and Accurate IP Location Finder', available on https://ipgeolocation.io/ip-location-api.html

Create an account and include your API Key

Pressing the Login IP Geolocation button takes you to the website https://ipgeolocation.io/ip-location-api.html to create a free account.
This means that up to a maximum of 500 accesses to the geodata per day are possible free of charge, which of course is never required by the Neo Planner on this scale.

Load IPGeolocation data

By pressing the 'Load' button, some geographic data such as the current local time, local sunset and in UT and midnight UT are displayed.
The display of the data serves to verify correct access to IP geolocation.

NEOfixer API Key

NEO Fixer is optional, can also be left empty.

The site is: https://neofixer.arizona.edu/site/500
There you have to register with your IAU code and then, after verification, you will receive an API code that can be entered in the GEO settings.

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