The computerisation of the Variable Star Section records

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Oct 1994

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Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.104, no.5, p.225-230

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Since its formation in 1890, the Association's Variable Star Section (VSS) has collected about two million variable star observations from its members. In spite of the fact that these records form a potentially valuable source of data for research, many of them have never been analysed or published. The great bulk of the observations consists of visual magnitude estimates recorded on hand-written report forms. Since 1978, a lot of work has been carried out 'behind the scenes' in the VSS in implementing a computer system to automate the processing. The purpose of this paper is to give an account of this work.

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