Dear AVSON observers, I have been, and continue to be a proponent of the scientific viability of visual observations. In 2004 I made an investigation into this...
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has come to this point in their development as an observer, so I would like to share my feelings and questions, and hopefully...
Dear Mike, and all the observers out there, thanks for bringing this up! Indeed, as a professional astronomer I have been quite frustrated over the years by...
Boris.Gaensicke@...
Mar 8, 2006 9:46 am
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Hi Boris & Mike— Mike thanks you for starting this thread! I have been active observing CV's for ~ 1 year and have submitted > 6000 observations submitted to...
Coel Hellier sent this response to "Prioritizing CV targets". Dear Mike, I've written the enclosed reply to your questions. Feel free to send it to the various...
... One reason that some amateur prefer unfiltered photometry is many CVs is too faint to multicolor photometry for amateur. And some professionals prefer...
The latest CVnet Interview with Koji Mukai is now online. Follow the links from the CVnet home page: http://cvnet.aavso.org Koji is a PhD astronomer working...
Mike, The mere fact that you reached that cross point and started looking around (from the hill top), means that you will still have a lot of excitement coming...
Berto Monard
LAGMonar@...
Mar 10, 2006 10:11 am
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Mike, You've covered it pretty well I think, I frequently feel the same confusion albeit at a simpler level. In my visual observing days, observations were...
Bill, As a long time member, your questions, just like mine, should speak loud and clear to the need for more direction from AAVSO. It's obvious to me from the...
My $0.02 is that amateur observers can do two things very well. 1) Monitor everything as much as possible regardless of whether it is the flavor of the month...
Dear Mike, and other colleagues around the world, Thank you very much, Mike, for giving us the seeds of interesting discussion! While Boris, Coel, and Steve...
Great idea, Dirk! I have had the thought lately that the AAVSO meetings are still a little light on the science, IMHO. There are lots of good talks and lots of...
Forwarded for your information. Mike ______________________________________________________________ Electronic Telegram No. 432 Central Bureau for Astronomical...
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For those of you who weren't aware, there is another pretty darn good catalog of CVs out there on the web. CVcat -the online database on Cataclysmic Variables ...
Hi Mike and all the others, ... just a note of caution: this is the prototype of a much more powerful CV catalogue, and its content is fairly out of data. We...
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Mar 15, 2006 9:33 pm
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RS OPHIUCHI T. J. O'Brien, T. W. B. Muxlow, S. T. Garrington, and R. J. Davis, Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester; R. W. Porcas,...
While staring into the eyepiece and trying to make an estimate of FO Per in outburst last night, I finally figured out why I was having so much trouble. The...
Activity this pronounced was not seen, only the mundane +/- .1. Although my observation was over an hour in advance of yours. I have seen this on several...
... Not with normal CCD cameras; typically they have a few seconds of download time, and in addition you need to expose long enough for decent signal/noise so...
In a posting on March 10, Mike Simonsen wrote to Bill Goff: "...Probably one of the reasons no paper has ever been written describing the 'mysterious AAVSO...
Hello ... When I observed DO Dra in outburst two years ago, I made a similar experience (but without flares) and I was sure it must be real too. In the end I...
Hello ... The major issue with small scopes and high speed CCD photometry is not photon noise (if you observe brighter vars) but scintillation noise that just...
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