Elements and Ephemeris for C/2012 S1 (ISON), grabbed on 2013/10/21 from MPEC: These people always seem to have latest link: http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/returnprepeph.cgi?d=c&o=CK12S010 Source: http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K13/K13U17.html C/2012 S1 (ISON) Epoch 2013 Nov. 4.0 TT = JDT 2456600.5 T 2013 Nov. 28.77441 TT MPC q 0.0124442 (2000.0) P Q z -0.0001662 Peri. 345.56446 +0.31513553 +0.51237362 +/-0.0000005 Node 295.65277 -0.75893582 -0.36934579 e 1.0000021 Incl. 62.39956 -0.56982981 +0.77527864 From 4789 observations 2011 Sept. 30-2013 Oct. 21, mean residual 0".5. ;;IDL tperi=anytim('2013/11/28')+86400.*.77441 - 66.184 & q=0.0124442 & O=295.65277 & i=62.39956 & w=345.56446 & e=1 ;;OR: ;elements={tperi_ET_ccsds:anytim(anytim('2013/11/28')+86400.*.77441,/CCSDS),q:0.0124442,e:1.0000021,O:295.65277,i:62.39956,w:345.56446}