Alerts for new bright objects appearing on the Minor Planet Center NEOCP or PCCP lists. This page provides feeds and tables, but no software downloads.
Preface
I set up this private NEOCP/PCCP alert system because I sometimes learned too late about newly published objects that I could still have observed.
A computer runs day and night and sends an alert when an object brighter than magnitude 20 appears. The current warnings are available via RSS/XML, JSON, Discord, and e-mail.
The current maximum delay after publication is about five minutes. It only takes longer when my computer has a problem.
In the future I may add further magnitude limits and a visibility limit for individual observing stations.
Motivation
The service makes new potentially observable objects easier to spot. It combines the current MPC lists, downloaded observations, and local Find_Orb working values into reviewable tables.
This is a private supplemental service and not an official Minor Planet Center service. Scientific or operational decisions should always use the original sources and ephemerides.
Registration
E-mail notifications are enabled on request. The registration mail must be sent from the exact address that should receive later alerts.
RSS, Mail And Discord
RSS/XML and JSON provide the current bright objects. E-mail and Discord alerts are generated from the same data.
Use the Discord invite to join MPC NEO Alert on Discord and receive the current warnings directly in the Discord channel.
Tables
Compact orbit elements, full orbit elements, and observations are available as separate pages.