Added 34 comets to ssystem.ini and pushed branch testA to lp.
From aerith's weekly comet page, I picked the comets that could be seen in good condition and had < 15 magnitude, or better magnitude, and that were also going to be visible in the future. I also checked out JPL Horizons and got comets from several observable locations, although all of those comets were available in the MPC. From MPC, I picked some older comets that would return to observation 2013-2014, and all the comets discovered in 2012, as well as some more recent comets. All in all, I just used the SolarSystemEditor (SSE) plugin to add comets to ssystem.ini because I didn't have a need for manual adding. Then I just replaced the branch's data/ssystem.ini with ~/Library/Application\ Support/Stellarium/data/ssystem.ini. So... nothing much other than just pushing a branch to lp.
List of comets added:
Observable comets via aerith
http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html
*C/2011 F1 (LINEAR)
*C/2006 S3 LONEOS
*C/2009 F4 McNaught
*C/2011 R1 McNaught
*C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS
*C/2010 S1 LINEAR
*246P/2010 V2 NEAT
*C/2011 O1 LINEAR
*P/2005 K3 McNaught
JPL
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbwobs.cgi
*29P Schwassmann-Wachmann // in MPC
*152P Helin-Lawrence
*C/2006 S3 LONEOS /// in MPC
*C/2009 P1 Garradd // in MPC
*C/2011 F1 LINEAR // in MPC
*246P NEAT // in MPC
Other MPC
P/1996 A1 Jedicke
P/1998 U3 Jager
P/1992 Y2 Li
C/2012 A1 PANSTARRS
C/2012 A2 LINEAR
C/2012 A3 SOHO
C/2012 B1 PANSTARRS
C/2012 B3 La Sagra
C/2012 BJ98
C/2012 C2 Bruenjes
C/2012 CH17 MOSS
C/2012 E1 Hill
C/2012 E3 PANSTARRS
C/2012 F1 Gibbs
C/2012 F2 PANSTARRS
C/2012 F3 PANSTARRS
C/2012 F5 Gibbs
C/2012 F6 Lemmon
C/2012 G1 PANSTARRS
C/2012 H1 PANSTARRS
242P/Spahr
244P/Scotti
248P/Gibbs
257P/Catalina
I think this list of comets will be good for start of coding because this list contains different types of comets.
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