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AAVSO Website's Top Ten List
The AAVSO website is loaded with useful information just waiting for you to discover! Navigate the site or use the site search link to find what you like. Here are some pages that have been getting a lot of attention: Top Ten Reasons Why the AAVSO Website Is Better Than A Vacation to Mars:  | | NASA/JPL | - Number 10
- The AAVSO website's Latest News section provides up-to-the minute web additions and headquarters news, . . . you just can't get that kind of coverage on Mars.
- Number 9
- The Email Discussion Forum facilitates the exchange of variable star information with other observers, . . . a lot easier than trying to understand Martian.
- Number 8
- The Variable Star of the Month web page features a unique variable star every month, . . . and Mars is just a planet.
- Number 7
- On the website, we have Predictions of maxima and minima for Long Period Variable stars and Easy-To-Observe stars, . . . on a trip to Mars you have no idea what is going to happen.
- Number 6
- A map to Mars would be difficult to read, . . . but the AAVSO website has over 3,000 star charts online so you can find the exact location of the variable star that interests you.
- Number 5
- The SID pages in the Solar Division explain how to build the hardware you use to detect a major solar disturbance, . . . and on Mars you are a sitting duck.
- Number 4
- The AAVSO History section revives the past; introducing you to the pioneer members of our organization, ... a vacation to Mars would be pretty lonely.
- Number 3
- After years of searching, they still haven't found life on Mars, but on the AAVSO website you can search our Quick Look files and find the data you need in seconds. Also listen to a musical version of our Quick Look files.
- Number 2
- The AAVSO website is part of the new and exciting Gamma-Ray Burst Network which notifies observers around the world of gamma-ray bursts immediately after they occur... on Mars you would probably get bored after a week.
And the Number 1 reason why the AAVSO website is better than a vacation to Mars...... (drumroll, please) The AAVSO light curve generator allows you to plot as many light curves as you want without frying your skin . . .and the Martian light generator (the sun) would leave you smokin'! By Katherine Davis
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