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Observation Band Descriptions
The band field of the Quick Look File describes the bandpass used to make the observation. Below are the
available bandpasses.
- N/A Unknown filter
- Vis.: Visual observations
- U: Johnson U band
- V: Johnson V band (a.k.a. "photometric V")
- B: Johnson B band
- R: Cousins R band (Rc); current standard
- I: Cousins I band (Ic); current standard
- RJ: Johnson R band; less common
- IJ: Johnson I band; less common
- SZ: Sloan z band
- SU: Sloan u band
- SG: Sloan g band
- SR: Sloan r band
- SI: Sloan i band
- CV: Unfiltered with a V zeropoint
- CR: Unfiltered with a Red zeropoint
- J: J band (NIR 1.2micron)
- H: H band (NIR 1.6micron)
- K: K band (NIR 2.2micron)
- TB: Blue filter from the RGB set (Tri-Color Blue)
- TG: Green filter from the RGB set (Tri-Color Green)
- TR: Red filter from the RGB set (Tri-Color Red)
- Orange: Orange filter (used by Liller)
- Yellow-Vis.: Yellow filter used visually
- Green-Vis.: Green filter used visually
- Red-Vis.: Red filter used visually
- Blue-Vis.: Blue filter used visually
- MA: Wing A (712 nm) near-IR filter
- MB: Wing B (754 nm) near-IR filter
- MI: Wing C (1025 nm) near-IR filter
- STU: Stromgren u filter
- STV: Stromgren v filter
- STB: Stromgren b filter
- STY: Stromgren y filter
- STHBW: Stromgren Hbw filter
- STHBN: Stromgren Hbn filter
Info on the official AAVSO reporting formats is here.
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