TITLE
visual - Compare Celestrak visual to McCants vsnames
SYNOPSIS
visual
visual -help
visual -version
OPTIONS
-help
This option displays the documentation for this script. The script then exits.
-merge
If asserted, this option causes Mike McCants' mcnames.mag file to be fetched also, and a magnitude hash to be produced that defines magnitudes for any body that appears on either the Celestrak visual list or the McCants vsnames list, and has a magnitude in either the McCants vsnames list or the McCants mcnames list. The output is Data::Dumper format.
-version
This option displays the version of this script. The script then exits.
DETAILS
This Perl script downloads the list of visual bodies from the Celestrak web site and the vsnames.mag file from Mike McCants' web site and compares the two, reporting OIDs that are not on both sites and what site they are on.
Note, though, that you get different output if you assert -merge
.
In either case, though, the last thing you get is a Last-Modified:
date, which is the most-recent of any of the data sources examined.
AUTHOR
Thomas R. Wyant, III wyant at cpan dot org
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2014-2017 by Thomas R. Wyant, III
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.0. For more details, see the Artistic License 1.0 at http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_1_0, and/or the Gnu GPL at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.txt.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.