[vsnet-chat 2412] eta Car -- reprint

[Bish Ishibashi <bish@astro.spa.umn.edu>]

Hi, this is a follow-up on the discussions that were 
posted here last April -- May. I'd like to bring you
all to attentions that Kris Davidson et al. has publised
a paper concerning the recent brightening of Eta Carinae 
in Astronomical Journal, 1999, volume 118, pg. 1777. It 
contains the points why we feel the recent brightening
was (or is, you people tell me!) very peculiar and not anything
ordinary, on contrary to what the other professional 
astronomers argued (cf. Sterken et al. A&A, 1999). Also 
I had my advisor (Kris Davidson) recognized the importance 
of the activities by those amateur astronomers in the paper. 
I for one am quite impressed by these dedicated amateurs who 
can perform consistent observations for a long, long period of 
time. 

Cheers to all of you, 

Bish Ishibashi

PS. If you like to read the manuscript we submitted, 
    try to download it from:

    http://astro.umn.edu/bish/reshst.html

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