[vsnet-chat 273] Re: New variable stars, etc.

[Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

Stan Walker wrote in [vsnet-chat 270]:

> ... but I think that any competent observer
> should be encouraged to get his "discovery" out on VSNet as soon as
> possible. Better a little wasted time than missing a few important hours on
> a nova.

   I fully agree on this point, and have indeed encouraged some of these
observers even before VSNET started to work.  At least some of them seemed
unwilling to do so; their reasoning was that prevailing these premature
discovery announcements may prevent other competing observers from
independetly discovering the object.  I was rather discouraged to hear the
same reasoning from several different persons -- stereotypical enough to
believe there is some sort of dogma.

Regards,
Taichi Kato

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