Transformation of AAVSO Archive Visual Data to the Johnson

V System

 

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Ronald E. Zissell

Williston Observatory, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075

 

Presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the AAVSO, October 26, 2002

Abstract  Comparison star magnitude sequences on older AAVSO charts come from various sources and often differ from magnitudes in the modern V system. Archived variable star data in the AAVSO International Database can be transformed by various algorithms. The transformed observations can be better combined with modern observations.

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