Hey all, I'm casting about for a variety of targets to image with my new-to-me Astro-Tech AT8RC. Since I'm using an OAG I won't be able to guide on the comet itself. PHD2 can accept tracking rates in RA and DEC and apply those as a correction to its guiding ( openphdguiding.org/man-dev/Tools.htm#Comet_Tracking ), but ya gotta have the rates to do it.  I can get a line from the Minor Planets Center that looks like this for C/2019 L3, but there are no headers to say which number is which:    CK19L030  2022 01  9.6198  3.554511  1.001620  171.6106  290.7902   48.3610  20220201   4.5  4.0  C/2019 L3 (ATLAS)                                        MPEC 2022-A21

The  PHD manual says Cartes du Ciel can send the tracking rates to PHD; can Ekos, by any chance?

Thx

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