News and Announcements
| 09 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: The Visual Era of the AAVSO EB Program |
(ej179): "The Visual Era of the AAVSO Eclipsing Binary Program" by D. B. Williams, M. E. Baldwin, G. Samolyk |
| 09 May | Special Notice #280: HST UV spectroscopy observations of S Dor scheduled |
May 9, 2012: We have been informed by Dr. Noel Richardson, Georgia State University, that the UV spectroscopy observations of S Dor to be made with the Hubble Space Telescope have been scheduled for |
| 08 May | Special Notice #279: Request for monitoring of SS Cygni in support of European VLBI radio observations |
7 May 2012: As mentioned in AAVSO Alert Notice 445 in August 2011 and AAVSO Special Notice #258 in October 2011, Dr. |
| 04 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: The “Werkgroep Veranderlijke Sterren” of Belgium |
(ej178): "The “Werkgroep Veranderlijke Sterren” of Belgium" by P. Wils, E. Broens, H. Hautecler, F. Van Loo |
| 04 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: Interferometry and the Cepheid Distance Scale |
(ej177): "Interferometry and the Cepheid Distance Scale" by T. G. Barnes, III
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| 04 May | GET API access to Variable Star Database |
The Variable Star Database (VSD) is the collection of comparison stars plotted with our Variable Star Plotter (VSP). We have created an API for the public to query the VSD and get back photometry on those comparison stars. This is basically the same data shown in the "photometry table" option of VSP, except it is in a delimited format easily parsed by automated software. In other words, you can use this format for your own scripts/software/etc. |
| 04 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: on Variable Star Observers |
(ej176): "Variable Star Observers I Have Known" by C. E. Scovil |
| 04 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: on Helen Sawyer Hogg |
(ej175): "The Stars Belong to Everyone: Astronomer and Science Writer Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905–1993)" by M. J. Cahill |
| 03 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: on Classical Cepheids |
(ej174): "Classical Cepheids After 228 Years of Study" by D. G. Turner |
| 03 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: on Joel Stebbins |
(ej173): "Illinois—Where Astronomical Photometry Grew Up" by B. B. Beaman and M. T. Svec |
| 03 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: Star Watching in Japan |
(ej172): "Star Watching Promoted by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan" by S. Sakuma |
| 02 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: on Solar Flares, Fears, and Forecasts... |
(ej171): "Flares, Fears, and Forecasts: Public Misconceptions About the Sunspot Cycle" by K. Larsen |
| 02 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: Recent Maxima of 55 Short Period Pulsating Stars |
(ej170): "Recent Maxima of 55 Short Period Pulsating Stars" by G. Samolyk |
| 02 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: on Early Pulsation Theory |
(ej169): "The Development of Early Pulsation Theory, or, How Cepheids Are Like Steam Engines" by M. Stanley |
| 01 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: Acquisition of Photometric Data |
(ej168): "The Acquisition of Photometric Data" by A. U. Landolt |
| 01 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: on RR Lyr stars |
(ej167): "Things We Don't Understand about RR Lyrae Stars" by H. A. Smith |
| 01 May | New eJAAVSO preprint: on Anne S. Young |
(ej166): "Anne S. Young: Professor and Variable Star Observer Extraordinaire" by K. Bracher |
| 30 April | arXiv Algol paper: Did the ancient egyptians record the period of the eclipsing binary Algol - the Raging one? | |
| 30 April | New eJAAVSO preprint: Non-Mira Pulsating Red Giants and Supergiants |
(ej 165): "Non-Mira Pulsating Red Giants and Supergiants" by L. Kiss, J. R. Percy |
| 30 April | New eJAAVSO preprint: on Dorrit Hoffleit... |
(ej164): "Variable Stars and Constant Commitments: The Stellar Career of Dorrit Hoffleit" by K. Larsen |
| 27 April | New eJAAVSO preprint: Young Stellar Objects... |
(ej163): "The Variability of Young Stellar Objects" by W. Herbst |
| 27 April | New eJAAVSO preprint: on Martha Stahr Carpenter... |
(ej162): "Reminiscences on the Career of Martha Stahr Carpenter: Between a Rock and (Several) Hard Places" by K. Larsen |
| 27 April | New eJAAVSO preprint: Walking With AAVSO Giants... |
(ej161): "Walking With AAVSO Giants—A Personal Journey (1960s)" by R. S. Kolman and M. Simonsen |
| 27 April | New eJAAVSO preprint: Cataclysmic Variables |
(ej160): "Cataclysmic Variables" by P. Szkody and B. T. Gaensicke |
| 26 April | New eJAAVSO preprint: John Goodricke, Edward Pigott... |
(ej159): "John Goodricke, Edward Pigott, and Their Study of Variable Stars" by Linda M. French |
