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...
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martin_piers_nicholson
martin_piers...
Jul 18, 2008 7:45 pm
... VSX they should therefore have sufficient data and be suitable enough for you to submit them in a paper to JAAVSO yourself. If you are a fee paying member...
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michael.kran
Sep 9, 2008 6:53 am
For what its worth, I joined vsx-dis just as I was thinking that a query based on the observer's location, a filter on the altitude of the object, and...
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Christopher Watson
sleepconvention
Sep 9, 2008 7:24 am
No, Michael...VSX does not have that feature. Sounds like a good idea, at first blush, although I don't think we ever envisioned VSX as being an observation...
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Michael Kran
michael.kran
Sep 9, 2008 8:10 am
Hello Christopher, Thank you for your reply. I have AstroPlanner, but I had not thought of it in terms of variable stars, even a sub-set of VSX. That would be...
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Christopher Watson
sleepconvention
Sep 9, 2008 1:07 pm
I believe Paul has AstroPlanner catalogs for the GCVS and NSV (plus supplement), so a good amount of bona-fide and suspected variables for use in the program...
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martin_piers_nicholson
martin_piers...
Nov 14, 2008 8:21 am
There is an interesting debate on VSX underway at: http://simostronomy.blogspot.com/2008/07/international-variable-star- index-vsx.html While readers might not...
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martin_piers_nicholson
martin_piers...
Nov 22, 2008 3:58 pm
Debate on VSX - continued The debate is starting to draw to a close now. Some very forthright views have been expressed and some fundamental misunderstandings...
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Sebastián Otero
varsao
Sep 20, 2009 5:13 pm
Just to tell submitters that the official format for the recently released UCAC3 catalog (see http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad) is: 3UCAC...
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Brian D. Warner
brianw_mpo
Sep 20, 2009 6:51 pm
Sebastian, ... Just to tell submitters that the official format for the recently released UCAC3 catalog (see http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad) is:...
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Wolfgang Renz
aavso_rwg
Sep 20, 2009 7:30 pm
Hello Bill J Gray of projectpluto.com writes at: http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm ... UCAC-3 numbering modified: UCAC-3 has rapidly passed from its original...
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Sebastián Otero
varsao
Sep 20, 2009 7:39 pm
Brian, ... Well, the acronym seems to be 3UCAC. The format seems to be different though, but I would follow what's stated in the SIMBAD dictionary of ...
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Christopher Watson
sleepconvention
Sep 20, 2009 9:06 pm
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/10531273 The Dictionary of Nomeclature is supposed to be the up-to-date electronic repository of the acronyms...
There was a boat-load of things in UCAC3 that should have been worked out before a public release -- of those, nomenclature being the most trivial by far! ...
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Wolfgang Renz
aavso_rwg
Sep 6, 2010 12:01 am
Hi Gene ... No, not that I know of. ... Your expectations are not correct ! EB is the general acronym for "Eclipsing Binary". But if a var type is meant, its...
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Sebastián Otero
varsao
Sep 6, 2010 1:51 am
... The SPB and BCEP descriptions in that webpage are interchanged. The longer period stars are the SPB ones. You can also add DPV's ...
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Wolfgang Renz
aavso_rwg
Jan 24, 2011 5:41 am
Hi Chris FYI I just noticed that the VSX "Atlas of O-C Diagrams for EBs" URLs are built incorrectly due to an additional "25": E.g. VSX tries to load the page:...
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Wolfgang Renz
aavso_rwg
Jan 24, 2011 11:22 am
Hi Chris FYI I just noticed that the VSX "AAVSO LCG" URLs are built incorrectly due to the changed URLs of the new AAVSO web site: E.g. VSX tries to...
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Patrick Wils
patrickwils
Jan 25, 2011 11:55 pm
Hi Wolfgang, This should be fixed now. Patrick...
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Sebastián Otero
varsao
Jan 26, 2011 12:00 am
I'd like to suggest that the last 200 days is not a good choice for displaying. A kind of ASAS-like time span gives us the chance to see several cycles and to...
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Patrick Wils
patrickwils
Jan 26, 2011 12:08 am
... Done. Patrick...
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Wolfgang Renz
aavso_rwg
Jan 27, 2011 10:20 am
FYI The time span does need IMO more discussion: ASAS plots by default all obs they have. This is unpractical for the AAVSO obs span a much longer time. If one...
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Sebastián Otero
varsao
Jan 27, 2011 2:39 pm
... ASAS plots by default all obs they have. This is unpractical for the AAVSO obs span a much longer time. If one does just consider LPVs, one could choose a...
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Patrick Wils
patrickwils
Jan 27, 2011 11:07 pm
... I have made the timespan depend on the period: a rounded number of days of at least 10 cycles and at least 400 days. When there is no period I have used...
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Wolfgang Renz
aavso_rwg
Jun 10, 2011 5:52 pm
Hello I just logged into VSX and tried to add a reference to a var. But the VSX: "Add reference" link is always grayed out with any var I've looked at. Is this...
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Patrick Wils
patrickwils
Jun 10, 2011 8:05 pm
Hi Wolfgang, Yes, references can now only be added through a revision. Patrick ... From: Wolfgang Renz <wr-astro@...> To: AAVSO VSX <vsx@...>;...
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tomas.wikander
Nov 2, 2012 8:26 am
Greetings! I'm an amateur astronomer from Sweden and a member of AAVSO (WTHB). I have recently, due to the very poor Swedish autumn weather, done some variable...
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Sebastián Otero
varsao
Nov 2, 2012 7:44 pm
Hi, Tomas, ... Please, be more specific regarding what you don't understand in the VSX guidelines. From what you say it seems that the variability is apparent...
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tomas.wikander
Nov 4, 2012 4:24 pm
Thanks for Your time, Sebastian. I'll try to submit this one in VSX, I had some thoughts whether VSX was the way to go or not, in this case. It's sometimes...
