Astro::Catalog::Query::MPC - A query request to the Minor Planet Center's Minor Planet Checker.
$mpc = new Astro::Catalog::Query::MPC( RA => $ra, Dec => $dec, Year => $year, Month => $month, Day => $day, Radmax => $radius, Limit => $limit, ObsCode => $obscode, ); my $catalog = $mpc->querydb();
This module provides an object-oriented interface to the Minor Planet Center's Minor Planet Checker webform available at http://scully.harvard.edu/~cgi/CheckMP. It stores information about asteroids found in a search radius at a specific epoch in an Astro::Catalog object.
Astro::Catalog
The object will by default pick up the proxy information from the HTTP_PROXY and NO_PROXY environment variables. See the LWP::UserAgent documentation for details.
See Astro::Catalog::BaseQuery for the catalog-independent methods.
Copyright (C) 2004 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License.
Brad Cavanagh <b.cavanagh@jach.hawaii.edu>
To install Astro::Catalog, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Astro::Catalog
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Astro::Catalog
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.