[Aavso-photometry] Starting up CCD Obs of Variable Stars

[Gary Billings]

The GCVS query form, at

http://www.sai.msu.su/gcvs/cgi-bin/search.htm

will give you the type.  E.g. V401 Ara is an RRAB.

Lower on the query page, if you click on the blue "Type of Variability" 
text, you'll get a document describing what those codes mean.  Not easy 
reading, but...

I hope this helps,

g.


On 28 May, 2007, at 8:09 PM, Greg Crawford wrote:

> Thank you to all those people who responded to me, including the many 
> replies
> off-list. I have been inundated with suggestions and am trying to 
> absorb it all.
>
> When I find that a star is listed in the GCVS, is there any way online 
> to
> ascertain what *kind* of variable it is? In addition to CV KX Aql, I 
> am very
> tempted by V0401 Ara, nicely located within the field of view of the 
> new
> Southern Landolt field, LSE 259. However, my general Google searches 
> have not
> turned up any information to identify the kind of variable V0401 Ara 
> is.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
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