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Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars
The AAVSO Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars is a comprehensive guide to variable star observing. It incorporates a lot of the basic information in the Manual for Observing Variable Stars, published in 1970, as well as information from various AAVSO observing materials published since then. The most recent revision occurred in January, 2005. This manual provides up-to-date information for making variable star observations and reporting them to the AAVSO.
New Translations Underway - In an effort to make the AAVSO Manual more useful to our members and observers world-wide, we have been undertaking a project to translate the manual into different languages. Thanks to the assistance of several ambitious AAVSO volunteers in various countries, French, Spanish, Turkish, Japanese, Polish, Chinese and Italian are completed. We are still looking for volunteers to translate the manual into Russian and Arabic.
The Manual is available from this web page in English in html format and pdf format. Translations of the Manual are available in pdf format only. If you would like to order a printed copy of the English Manual, please visit our online store.
English Version of the AAVSO Visual Observing Manual

Complete Manual - Değişken Yıldızların Gözlem Kılavuzu (5.4 MB)
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A special thank you to Tuğrul Uşşaklı, Sabahattin Bilsel, and Haldun Menali for their hard work in translating the Manual into Turkish.
Complete Manual - (4.8 MB)
A special thank you to Seiji Tsuji for his hard work in translating the Manual into Japanese.
Complete Manual - (5.6 MB)
A special thank you to Andrzej Grabowski and Jerzy Speil for their hard work in translating the Manual into Polish.
Complete Manual - (6.6 MB)
A special thank you to Dr. Phillip K. Lu for his hard work in translating the Manual into Chinese
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Please let us know if you would like to volunteer for any other translations.
Links to other variable star manuals
Finnish Manual on variable star observing by Mika Luostarinen
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