MPEC Watch
MPEC Watch provides various statistical metrics and plots derived from the Minor Planet Center's Minor Planet Electronic Circular service. The project is inspired by MPEC statistics by Jost Jahn.
Change log
- 2024 Oct 5: statistics of individual survey program is now available.
- 2024 Jun 11: observatory table has expanded columns.
- 2024 Jun 1: survey summary page now available; adding recovery stats; adding term definitions.
- 2024 May 30: export options added to individual station yearly breakdown of MPEC types.
- 2024 Apr 5: switching to MPC code list from Bill Gray's digested list to fix update hangs between code additions and Bill's updates.
- 2024 Feb 22: fixed NEA counts.
- 2023 Dec 1: adding time frequency plots (of observations).
- 2023 Oct 20: tables are now searchable; fixed menu count selector.
- 2023 Aug 11: bug fixes -- empty pages, plots and buggy CATCH links.
- 2023 Jul 27: monthly breakdown and CSV tables available.
- 2023 Jul 18: adding CATCH URLs if applicable.
- 2023 Jul 13: tables are now sortable; blank figures are shown if there is no data.
- 2023 Jul 2: added tally numbers to data tables.
- 2023 Jun 25: CSV table available on site pages; also adding tables of observers, measurers and facilities on site pages.
- 2023 Apr 16: fixed broken MPEC URLs.
- 2023 Feb 12: data table now available on site pages.
- 2022 Nov 15: 1st follow-up and follow-up info now available on site pages.
- 2022 Sep 2: adding statistics and graphs for individual sites.
- 2022 Feb 24: adding MPC Stuff page.
- 2022 Jan 25: first release!
Description of (some) scripts under ./makepages
Individual_OMF
This script is used to generate the figures (OMF: Obersers, Measurers, and Facilities) for individual observatories.
Overall_OMF
This script is used to generate the figures (OMF: Obersers, Measurers, and Facilities) for the congergation of ALL observatories.
StationMPECGraph
This is the main script used to generate the webpages for each of the stations. This depends on Individual_OMF having been run first since it pulls the figures from the output of that script.
Acknowledgment
This project makes use of Bootstrap, Bootstrap Table, data provided by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center.
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