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DSLR Observing Manual in Polish

The AAVSO DSLR Observing Manual is now available in Polish!

Thanks to an excellent volunteer effort by Ewa Stokłosa and Ryszard Biernikowicz with editing help from Krzysztof Kida, we now have a beautiful translation of the DSLR Manual into Polish. We hope that our Polish-speaking members and observers will find this manual helpful and will share it with their colleagues.

To download a copy (free-of-charge), please visit the DSLR Observing Manual webpage.

DSLR Observing Manual in French

The AAVSO DSLR Observing Manual is now available in French!

Many thanks once again to Bernard Candela for all the hard work he put into producing this translation. We hope that our French-speaking members and observers will find this manual helpful and will share it with their colleagues.

To download a copy (free-of-charge), please visit the DSLR Observing Manual webpage.

In addition to English, this Manual is also available in Greek and Spanish.

Visual Observing Manual in Persian - 2013 edition

The Persian (Farsi) version of the June 2013 revision of Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars - راهنمای رصد بصری ستارگان متغیر is now available for download here:

http://www.aavso.org/visual-observing-manual-persian

This Manual is available free-of-charge and may be reproduced and distributed as needed.

Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars - update

The Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars (in English) has just been updated. To download this new and improved version, please visit http://www.aavso.org/visual-observing-manual.

Many thanks to Mike Simonsen, Elizabeth Waagen and Matthew Templeton for their input and helpful suggestions.

Sara Beck
AAVSO Technical Staff, Science Team

New Chinese Visual Observing Manual

I am very pleased to announce that we now have TWO Chinese translations of the AAVSO Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars available for downloading. The newest addition to our collection of Manual translations is in "Traditional Chinese" which is used in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and parts of southeast Asia. This beautiful translation was done by Tao Fan-Lin (陶蕃麟) who is the Director of the Taipei Association of Astronomy Now.

You can get both versions of the Chinese Manual here: