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  • Category: Stellar Objects
  • Founded: May 13, 2006
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As your VSX variables have passed moderation and been included into VSX they should therefore have sufficient data and be suitable enough for you to submit...
2 Jul 18, 2008
7:45 pm

martin_piers_nicholson
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There has been a lot of discussion about how to disseminate the results placed in VSX, and this seemed to me to be seen as important to the viability of VSX. ...
4 Jul 3, 2008
4:04 am

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Is there an unpublished version of Brian Skiff's MKTypes.dat file floating around? I was looking at a couple of stars I put in, and "Admin, VSX" amended them...
6 Jan 9, 2008
8:14 am

Christopher Watson
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I am not clear as to what type of material should be included as a "supporting document" to a VSX entry. Can somebody please point me in the direction of an...
2 Sep 13, 2007
8:06 am

Patrick Wils
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It looks to me as if there are 1500-1600 variable stars in the International Variable Star Index that have the prefix VSX. Back in May colleagues were working...
1 Sep 12, 2007
2:08 pm

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If I take either the name of a variable star such as VSX J000819.3+464455 or its co-ordinates 00 08 19.32 +46 44 55.2 and paste them into the variable star...
4 Aug 30, 2007
5:44 am

Martin Nicholson
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A recent paper by S. Rucinski (http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3020) studies the EW stars discovered by ASAS. One of them, ASAS 083128+1953.1 (see ...
5 Aug 24, 2007
6:36 pm

Sebastian Otero
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Earlier today my total number of observations in the AAVSO datbase was 9961. It is now 7434....
6 Jul 29, 2007
11:08 pm

Christopher Watson
skygxproject
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The light curve link-out for V2467 CYG doesn't appear to work. Wednesday PM (UK time) Martin Nicholson (AAVSO NMR)...
1 Jul 25, 2007
3:35 pm

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Is there an issue with the computers at HQ? Just recently the links from lightcurves to VSX seem to fail about one time in ten and Web Obs has been giving an...
1 Jun 26, 2007
8:04 am

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ASAS 183136-1815.4 was found to be a Mira type variable with a period of 209 days (range 12.3-<14.3V) by ASAS3. Brian Skiff's MKTypes.dat file of spectral...
5 Jun 12, 2007
11:30 am

arne
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I mentioned this to the principal architect a few months ago. It is a request that may be of help only to me. I am doing a drift-scan survey with a small...
2 May 29, 2007
12:05 am

Christopher Watson
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There might be an issue with the new variable submission facility. It is not clear that a submission made today worked - error message in Internet Explorer....
1 May 27, 2007
10:57 am

martin_piers_nicholson
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So where are amateurs publishing their material? Certainly not in OEJV – only 10 articles in 2007 and in general material that appears is overwhelmingly from...
3 May 26, 2007
7:28 pm

Sebastian Otero
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FYI: The Membership setting for this group is now set to Restricted, and all Joins must now be approved by the Owner. This should cause no inconvenience for...
1 May 25, 2007
9:16 pm

skygxproject
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I think a billion author paper is warranted in this case. M....
1 May 25, 2007
5:05 pm

Michael Koppelman
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It looks to me as if there are 1500-1600 variable stars in the International Variable Star Index that have the prefix VSX. Does the AAVSO have any plans to...
4 May 23, 2007
3:27 pm

martin_piers_nicholson
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VSX doesn't seem to be working when I try to access it from an AAVSO lightcurve. (Monday PM) Martin Nicholson NMR...
1 May 21, 2007
5:33 pm

martin_piers_nicholson
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I'm wondering about how to submit what I guess amounts to data corrections to VSX. Reading through the guidelines, they seem to focus on submission of a new...
8 May 3, 2007
2:53 pm

Patrick Wils
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The VSX database contains many variable stars not listed in the AAVSO validation file. What happens when data on these stars is submitted to AAVSO? Using MX...
2 Apr 27, 2007
11:26 am

arne
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Greetings all, Over the last few weeks, a big push was made to import into the International Variable Star Index (VSX) database all of the variable star...
1 Apr 4, 2007
7:02 am

Christopher Watson
skygxproject
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Unfortunately, the March 1, 2006 - March 26, 2007 archives of the AAVSO discussion group and the AAVSO photometry group were lost in a software upgrade gone...
3 Mar 28, 2007
8:40 pm

arne
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I looked up 12 ASAS variables in Simbad - 1 from each of 12 different constellations - with rather worrying results. All were listed in VSX by the way. 3 had...
1 Mar 23, 2007
9:15 am

martin_piers_nicholson
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Sigh - it has all been said before and doubtless will be said again. John, you seem unable to resist attacking people who are AGREEING with the thrust of your...
1 Mar 21, 2007
2:16 pm

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Being somewhat involved in an advisory capacity in the past with respect to the catalogue holdings of both PIXY2, Seiichi's self made cross checking system,...
3 Mar 21, 2007
9:44 am

martin_piers_nicholson
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About 99% of the VSX is published. It consists of imported published data, or imported compilations that themselves consist of predominantly pubished data...
2 Mar 20, 2007
3:52 pm

Christopher Watson
skygxproject
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It seems to me that although the strengths of VSX greatly exceed the weaknesses it still should be possible for users or contributors to raise issues in this...
3 Mar 19, 2007
2:41 pm

Michael Koppelman
ngc4438
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http://ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pipermail/vsnet-chat/2007-March/000261.html ... John there's also a coupla thousand "new" variables from surveys been and ...
1 Mar 18, 2007
4:57 pm

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I suppose just to clarify the ol' hilarity there, despite the fact I love being misconstrued, the main point of my original bwahahaha was I predicted this self...
12 Mar 12, 2007
4:17 pm

Michael Koppelman
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it's quite straightforward really: vsx is niched via disconnection from the wider world, thus making it nonrelevant to said. The ironic aspect of the same...
1 Mar 12, 2007
3:35 pm

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