August comets

[theskyhound]

I have a project to upgrade and automate the current comet process, which I work on for a day at the end of month. I use the latest code to do the update on the 1st. As a result the process changes a bit from month to month. So it's possible that I made a mistake this month. But I know that I saw something very weird when I browsed the current comets folder. It initially listed all of the files as being from June in the descriptions. Then they all magically said August, even though I only updated the comets. That has to be some sort of cache issue. I'll keep looking into it.

My goal is to make the process of updating the comets more automated so that I can do it much more often, and be less prone to mistakes on my end. But there will always be hand curation of the observations, I just want to make that as simple as possible and to automate everything else as much as I can. Currently I spend pretty much the entire 1st day of every month updating the comets and my Comet Chasing web site, which I am also working on an updated format for.