[vsnet-chat 4377] Re: Orthography of V-numbered variable stars?

["Stan Walker" <astroman@voyager.co.nz>]

Greetings,

All of this seems merely to mark another intrusion of the computer people
into our lives. In the same vein as Taichi I shudder when I get letters
dated 07 March, 2001. But I can see the value of 2001 Mar 7 or its
equivalent 20010307. I can't understand why the first column of the GCVS
needs to be a certain width when the magnitude and spectral class columns
should be variable widths. Is it so hard to space fill on either side as
necessary? Longer files, perhaps, but with increased speed and storage is
that a problem?Can you imagine accountancy or financial software if it were
zero filled? My digital camera software places 300 before 4 but it's still
possible to live with this. And the XXX0640-24 system is a bit more
informative than the constellation-number VS names. Maybe we should get rid
of the constellation names too and start with Andromeda as 1, with Vulpecula
or whatever as 88?

Regards,
Stan


----- Original Message -----
From: Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: <vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>; <vsnet-gcvs@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 1:18 AM
Subject: [vsnet-chat 4364] Re: Orthography of V-numbered variable stars?


> Re: Orthography of V-numbered variable stars?
>
> >Incidentally, I see that the GCVS uses three formats :
> >V999 Sgr  in volumes 1-3; (no space)
> >V 999 Sgr in vol. 4            (with space)
> >V0999 ---  in vol. 5 & most recent namelist
>
>    I'm not sure about which namelist you are referring to, but the 75th
> namelist uses the consistently first format (V999 Sgr).  I believe this
> is the nominal standard of the GCVS.  The others are simply from
computational
> limitations.  [One may remember the first computerized version of the
> GCVS only used upper case roman letters, because Russian letters were
> allocated instead of lower case roman letters].
>
> Regards,
> Taichi Kato
>
>

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