Arne wrote "I seriously doubt that you can create guidelines that will handle all cases, but I'm open to hearing what guidelines you propose. By finding ...
Arne wrote "There are 4 ways of handling large lists: (1) accept as-is (2) reject as-is (3) cherry-pick and only include those stars deemed variable (4)...
Arne said "If you object to these stars, then you should submit a revision for each one, specifying why they should be discarded and giving supporting evidence...
Yes I appreciate that the GCVS listing has its origins in the MISAO data. What seemed strange to me was having two listings in VSX for the same star when both...
ftp://skydot.lanl.gov/pub/projects/skydot/nsvs/red_variables/nsvs_unspecified_slow_vars.dat When the NSVS published its list of red variables it had 693 slow ...
Hi Gerry, UZ Ser sits in VSX as an UGSS because that's what the GCVS and Downes catalogs had it as. It remains as UGSS because no one has come along and...
One strong argument in favour of VSX is the current unsatisfactory situation regarding GCVS. The 78th Name-List of Variable Stars – published August 8th 2006...
Sorry Arne but you seem to have misunderstood the point I was trying to make. I don't dispute for a second that some people will find VSX very useful and as...
Who is the intended audience for VSX? I say this because it is far from clear, at least from my reading of the literature, that this fundamental question has...
All, Some modifications have been made to a few of the forms on VSX. The New Star Form and New Star Wizard both now have dual variable type input. Both a...
... Dear all, I must say that the reason of changing T Leo with QZ Vir is slight unclear for me. I understand such a renename for newly named stars. But T Leo...
The 78th Name-List of Variable Stars with for identifications of 1706 'new' variables was published on 8 August 2006: http://www.konkoly.hu/cgi-bin/IBVS?5721 ...
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?...
Revising some stars with literature data I noticed that we might have a .pdf version or a scanned .gif version available. For some stars I have given the links...
Take a gander at this VSX entry sourced from the Downes CV catalog: http://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php?view=detail.top&oid=132770 Nice, isn't it? Not! The...
You guys are way ahead of me. I was going to ask on this list about the R1 passband, since I did not see it last night, but I did see it on an NSVS variable...
VSX 1.1 RELEASE NOTES July 24, 2006 I. OVERVIEW The main push behind the 1.1 release was to rectify all the shortcomings of the data submission forms. The...
Greetings everyone, The upgrade to VSX 1.1 went very smoothly, and the system was down for only 1h 25m. Everything is back up and running now. Thank you for ...
All, Planned software upgrades for VSX (as described in previous postings) will go forward this evening. The VSX system will be taken off-line for the...
As I flail about the sky in my on-going search for truth, I have a number of accurate positions and other data for variables that have just NSV designations...
All, Some background info, and then a question. In the forthcoming VSX code release, what was known as the Comments section on the Detail Sheet will become...
http://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php?view=detail.top&oid=34049 Take a look at the following star, VV Scl. Thought to be an eclipser of the EB-type. In 1992 found...
Sometime within the next few days, VSX will be taken down for a couple of hours for some critical software upgrades. There will be some substantial changes to...
Hi everyone, I'm just curious who is reviewing new stars for VSX, and what the time frame is for new stars making it into VSX. Thanks, Jim ... Jim Bedient ...
Question about ASAS data that you can 'link-out' to: For stars like BQ Eri, that have a published period...when you link out to the ASAS data...the data is...
All, It seems the CDS folks in France are having some problems with their Sesame name resolver. It is currently returning bad data to VSX in response to the...
Revisions and references in VSX. Maybe someone can give some advice here. I am getting more and more lost every day regarding descriptions, supporting...
When a star is in VSX only once with its GCVS data, we can revise it and the new elements appear updated in the detail sheet. Thus a wrong classification in...
