http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/ VSX Discussion Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:13:26 GMT Christopher Watson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/500 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/500 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! Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:48:08 GMT Sebastián Otero http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/499 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/499 Subject: Re: [vsx-dis] UCAC3 identifier format. ... Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:06:34 GMT Christopher Watson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/498 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/498 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 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:39:04 GMT Sebastián Otero http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/497 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/497 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 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:30:23 GMT Wolfgang Renz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/496 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/496 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 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:51:54 GMT Brian D. Warner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/495 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/495 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: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:13:10 GMT Sebastián Otero http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/494 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/494 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 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:58:37 GMT martin_piers_nicholson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/493 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/493 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 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:21:34 GMT martin_piers_nicholson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/491 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/491 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 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:07:47 GMT Christopher Watson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/490 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/490 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 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:10:28 GMT Michael Kran http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/489 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/489 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 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:24:20 GMT Christopher Watson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/488 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/488 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 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:53:31 GMT michael.kran http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/487 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/487 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 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:45:46 GMT martin_piers_nicholson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/485 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/485 ... 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 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:56:38 GMT interferom http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/484 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsx-dis/message/484 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