Hello I noticed that when I use the Images section of the Detail Sheet and switch between the same two images, the images are downloaded every time form STScI....
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Christopher Watson
skygxproject
May 26, 2006 1:11 am
Yes, Wolfgang. I have been looking into this. Hopefully, I'll have a solution soon. -Christopher...
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arne
ahenden2
May 26, 2006 12:11 pm
I wonder how the GCVS team is updating the coordinates of the NSV stars. I presume from the original finding charts, similar to how they updated the GCVS?...
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Patrick Wils
patrickwils
May 26, 2006 12:22 pm
... These blank entries are for stars that already got GCVS status: NSV 9 = AT Scl, NSV 72 = V633 Cas. Patrick ...
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arne
ahenden2
May 26, 2006 12:28 pm
... thot I had expanded the screen width sufficiently, but obviously not. thanks. arne...
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aavso_rwg
May 26, 2006 7:00 pm
Hi Patrick I really don't like the idea that VSX will never become more than a 'slightly better GCVS' or stays a catalog of catlogs. For that you don't need...
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Patrick Wils
patrickwils
May 26, 2006 10:51 pm
Hello Wolfgang, ... It is only a start, not the end. And it will be more than what is available for the moment... ... Improvements won't get lost. The...
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Mike Simonsen
mikesimonsen
May 27, 2006 12:23 am
Wow...I get tied up with work and come home to a hundred emails about VSX, GCVS, Greaves vs. Koppelman.... I've read all of them now and my first reaction is...
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Mike Simonsen
mikesimonsen
May 27, 2006 12:27 am
When the VSX germ was born and the infection spread, I was among those who complained vociferously about the long delays in GCVS adopting and naming new...
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Mike Simonsen
mikesimonsen
May 27, 2006 1:46 am
Koppelman wrote: "To me this brings up the whole "mission" issue of VSX. Do we have some sort of a articulated mission for this? Or are we making it up as we...
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Mike Simonsen
mikesimonsen
May 27, 2006 2:45 am
JG wrote: "Dear Dr Arne Henden Given the recent launch of VSX and the increasingly tortuous situation re identification of new and novel objects, it is perhaps...
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Michael Koppelman
ngc4438
May 27, 2006 4:13 am
You know, there has been some good discussion here already. I hope we are not all so thinned skinned that we can't handle a little heated debate. I do get fed...
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Michael Koppelman
ngc4438
May 27, 2006 4:51 am
The mission of the GCVS, as near as I can tell, is to name variable stars and to maintain a catalog of variable stars from the literature. They do this, as has...
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Christopher Watson
skygxproject
May 27, 2006 4:59 am
... I am in complete agreement, Michael. Thank you. -Chris...
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arne
ahenden2
May 27, 2006 1:36 pm
... John gave me a rough draft on July 10, 2005, of an article describing how he identified two new variables and the steps taken. I think this is the one he...
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arne
ahenden2
May 27, 2006 3:04 pm
I'm slowly cleaning out my email archives (well, moving things out of my inbox into other folders so that they can be forgotten there). I note that the last...
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arne
ahenden2
May 27, 2006 3:10 pm
To some degree, this is correct. A researcher probably does not know every possible cross-identification for a variable, and will remember it by the most...
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geert hoogeveen
geerthoo
May 29, 2006 10:56 pm
(Prologue: This is more about the general questions that I have concerning investigation methods than about VSX.) While many technical details have already...
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arne
ahenden2
May 29, 2006 11:26 pm
By GSC, do you mean GSC1.2? If so, the problem is that many fainter stars have no GSC number, and GSC itself is missing many stars (or has blends of yet more...
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Christopher Watson
skygxproject
Jun 1, 2006 4:12 am
Patrick Wils filed the following bug for VSX: "Simbad does not know VSX names yet. New stars always get the name "VSX J123...", and Simbad will never find...
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Sebastian Otero
varsao
Jun 1, 2006 5:10 am
Hi, Chris, What about the discoverer sending a SIMBAD object for each discovery? Make that mandatory and you shouldn't do anything but trusting the SIMBAD...
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Christopher Watson
skygxproject
Jun 1, 2006 5:36 am
... That's an interesting idea, Sebastian. Do you think that there would ever be a problem with forcing the submittal of a recognized SIMBAD identifier?...
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Patrick Wils
patrickwils
Jun 1, 2006 7:04 am
There may be problems when the new object isn't in Simbad yet (as often happens). In that case a name should be used which might be used by Simbad later on...
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variabilitiness
Jun 7, 2006 1:09 pm
Some partway extraneous concerns reveal that direct statement of VSX ownership might be in order, and the connection with AAVSO on an operational level in need...
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arne
ahenden2
Jun 7, 2006 1:37 pm
The VSX *software* is owned by Chris Watson until he tells us otherwise. He has granted permission for that software to be hosted on the AAVSO web site. We...
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Christopher Watson
skygxproject
Jun 7, 2006 1:59 pm
... Yes, right there is a very valid clarification. The *software* is the part I own. The PHP, JavaScript and HTML code, the files in which that code...
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Mike Simonsen
mikesimonsen
Jun 8, 2006 10:35 am
In some circles, the association with AAVSO might be deemed a negative thing. Based on past results and behaviors this could be understood to a certain degree....
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Michael Koppelman
ngc4438
Jun 9, 2006 1:36 am
It was a surprise to me that this was not an AAVSO project. I have been under the impression all along that Chris was doing this work, in whole or in part, as...
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skygxproject
Jun 9, 2006 4:07 am
... It was actually the AAVSO that volunteered to give VSX (then called VSDb) a home. In all honesty, I knew the AAVSO would be interested in it, but Arne and...
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arne
ahenden2
Jun 9, 2006 11:19 am
... We were under a committment from Council to produce something like VSX. When Chris demonstrated what he had, I decided that was close enough to what...
