[Aavso-photometry] CCD Observing Program]

Mon Mar 26 18:01:13 EDT 2007

 Hey, all. When the standards project was run back in September, 2003 we 
setup the SA* standard stars with temporary designations in our validation file 
(I believe they were 9999+98,9999+97, etc.). When people stopped contributing 
to the project (a few months later), we removed the temporary stars. 

 Since it seems like this will be a semi-permanent project, Elizabeth said she 
will assign permanent designations to the stars and post the designations to 
this discussion group when they are ready.

Aaron

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Subject: 	Re: [Aavso-photometry] CCD Observing Program
Date: 	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:50:47 -0400
From: 	bailyhill at aol.com
To: 	w_renz at onlinehome.de, kate at aavso.org, aaronp at aavso.org, 
arne at aavso.org
CC: 	eowaagen at aavso.org
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Hello:

I went to answer Wolfgang's questions, and I got stumped on the first 
one.  I was not able to get a light curve nor quick look on either 
SA114, SA 114, SA 114A, SA93, nor SA 93.  I know I have done this 
before.  Something must not be correct, or I have forgotten the trick.  
Can you please look into this to see if you can get it.  Let me know 
what the trick is.

As I say, I have done this dozens of times before, and even presented 
light curves at meetings.

This also makes me wonder if the same bug could prevent observers from 
submitting their data on these CCD Standards Stars.  There are 12 all 
together.  I guess that the other 10 are also not connected.

Thanks
for your help in advance.

Clear Skies
Gary

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From: w_renz at onlinehome.de
To: kate at aavso.org; aaronp at aavso.org; arne at aavso.org
Cc: bailyhill at aol.com
Sent: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Aavso-photometry] CCD Observing Program

 Yup, nice work. Found that page already two weeks ago.
At that time I tried to query if someone has already submitted
any obs like described in:
 http://www.aavso.org/observing/programs/ccd/standards.shtml
At that time it looked like as the ids like SA114-A were not accepted.
And it still looks like this way.

Did you already give the *A and *1 stars a HarvDesig ?
If not, not all AAVSO software might work as expected. And the first
submitter might give an unexpected name as "New Star Name" in
WebObs.

(I prefer HarvDesig over HD as this acromym is already
occupied by the HD catalog.)

Two comments on this:
 "... Use the star name and letter A (ie SA114A) listed in the
  web page above for your v instrumental magnitudes (V filtered
  by untransformed). [EOF]"
1)
At: http://www.aavso.org/observing/programs/ccd/standards/
all the stars to submit data for end with A OR 1 AND have a hyphen
between the Field (plus SubField) id and the Star in field id !
-> change to:
 "letter A (ie SA114-A) or number 1 (ie M67-1)" ?
2)
What do you expect to be entered as:
- Comparison Star(s):
Empty ?
The mmag of the *-B/*-2 star ?
With or without decimal seperator ?
- Chart:
Empty ?
"Landolt" ?
"CCD Standards Project" ?
- Comment Codes:
Also K as there is no AAVSO chart ?
- Comment Codes Explained
Something like: Comp: SA114-B=11.101V ?

Clear skies
Wolfgang

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Wolfgang Renz, Karlsruhe, Germany
Rz.BAV = WRe.vsnet = RWG.AAVSO

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From: <bailyhill at aol.com>
To: <aavso-photometry at aavso.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 3:57 PM
Subject: [Aavso-photometry] CCD Observing Program

>Hello;
>
> Kate Davis has done a nice job making the CCD Standards program
>description material easy to get to. Previously, it was buried in an
>old version of ccd views.
>
> Go to the home page, click on "Observing", then click on "Observing
>Programs", then read down to a brief description under "CCD Standards
>Program". Under this paragraph, click on "CCD Observing Programs", 
and
>then click on "CCD Standards Project".
>
> This project highlights 12 Landolt fields that are well observed, 
and
>serves to get ccd observers to see how they are doing, and to 
quantify
>their accuracy. An iterative process can be followed to improve each
>step of the photometry of these Standards, until the observer's 
process
>meets his needs.
>
> If you have not tried one of these, give one a try. These are 
roughly
>spaced thru out the 24 hours of RA, so one is on the meridian every
>night.
>
>Clear Skies
>Gary
>
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