The AAVSO Guide to CCD Photometry, first published in September 2014, is designed to be a basic introduction and guide to using CCDs to perform photometry of variable stars. With care, you can use a backyard telescope to obtain astrophysically useful data that matches the quality of those produced by professional astronomers, using exactly the same principles and techniques that are used at larger research observatories around the world.
Thanks to a fantastic volunteer effort by Dr. Nikolai Samus (of GCVS fame) we now have available a Russian translation of the AAVSO Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars.
The AAVSO DSLR Observing Manual is now available in French!
Many thanks once again to Bernard Candela for all the hard work he put into producing this translation. We hope that our French-speaking members and observers will find this manual helpful and will share it with their colleagues.
The Persian (Farsi) version of the June 2013 revision of Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars - راهنمای رصد بصری ستارگان متغیر is now available for download here:
The Hungarian version of the recently revised Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars- Vizuális Változócsillag-észlelők Kézikönyve - is now available for download here:
The French version of the newly revised Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars - Manuel pour l'observation visuelle des étoiles variables - is now available for download here:
The Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars (in English) has just been updated. To download this new and improved version, please visit http://www.aavso.org/visual-observing-manual.
Many thanks to Mike Simonsen, Elizabeth Waagen and Matthew Templeton for their input and helpful suggestions.
I am very pleased to announce that we now have TWO Chinese translations of the AAVSO Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars available for downloading. The newest addition to our collection of Manual translations is in "Traditional Chinese" which is used in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and parts of southeast Asia. This beautiful translation was done by Tao Fan-Lin (陶蕃麟) who is the Director of the Taipei Association of Astronomy Now.
You can get both versions of the Chinese Manual here:
