[Aavso-photometry] Campaign tracking suggestion

[Aaron Price]

Var Her 04 is not on that page I considered that campaign done at the end of 
May when I posted a message to the discussion group saying this:
"After the APO observations we should be done with Var Her 04 campaigns for 
now. All we need after that is the long term snapshot monitoring."

Earlier this month I noticed we had no more active campaigns running and 
also our montoring of Var Her 04 in Ic was not very consistent. So I posted 
another message to the discussion group asking people to keep monitoring it. 
I didn't consider it a campaign at the time (and never used those words). 
That ties into the question, "what is a campaign?". At the top of the 
campaign web page we have this disclaimer:

"Disclaimer: An observing campaign is defined as a request for observations 
to achieve a specific goal, usually over a finite amount of time. This does 
not include ongoing monitoring requests."

So I guess I interpreted the Var Her 04 request as a permanent monitoring 
request. However, we do have a specific finite goal. If we can get enough of 
a light curve to establish the star's class then it will add an important 
element to the big Var Her 04 paper I hope to write this summer. So this 
program straddles the line. We'll go ahead and put it back on the page as it 
can only help us get the observations needed.

BTW, the recent observations coming in have been great.

Aaron


On 7/15/05, arne <arne at aavso.org> wrote:
> 
> Bill Dillon wrote:
> 
> > I think it's great that we have various special observing campaigns
> > under way to support professional observing projects, but I'd like to
> > have a page or link that would reference the currently active
> > campaigns, with links to the relevant campaign descriptions.
> >
> > Aaron had to send a reminder recently that the Var Her '04 campaign
> > was still on-going. We have a lot of balls in the air, so to speak,
> > and such a quick reference might help keep some of them from being
> > dropped.
> 
> Hi Bill -
> Such a page already exists:
> http://www.aavso.org/news/campaigns.shtml
> However, I don't see varher04 on there, so it needs to be corrected.
> Arne
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-- 
Aaron