[vsnet-chat 4592] Name List 76

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Seiichi Yoshida has kindly informed me that Name List 76 
has just been released by the GCVS group, currently 
available as IBVS 5135... ...www.konkoly.hu then follow 
appropriate links to either an html version or the three 
tables as ascii txt files.

I extend personal congratulations to Seiichi and his 
observing team with regards to the plethora of MISAO 
variables included in this Name List.

Other significant numbers of new variables also included 
come from Takamizawa, with also a handful or so from 
Haseda, a smattering from Bernhard and the odd TAV star.

It is also worthy of note that a significant number of 
primary references for objects named within this new Name 
List are actually references to vsnet!!!


Checking the GCVS Group's webpages I find no mention of 
Name List 76 as yet... ...this will probably appear in a 
few days, as well as an ftp availability of the Name List.  
Ideally their online GCVS data file will have this new name 
list immediately subsumed into it.

I will wait a few days for this to happen... ...if it does 
not I will provide a TDF for Guide users so as to enable 
them to use the data directly from table 1 of the ascii 
files provided with the Name List.

I'll leave this a couple of days because i) the online GCVS 
file may well include this data very soon, so simply 
downloading this and using it with my previously vsnet-caht 
posted GCVS TDF will suffice as update, ii) I'm tired and 
I'm going down the pub.


Finally, the ability of the GCVS group to so easily include 
new variables so quickly nowadays is as much a testament to 
the quality, "depth" and availability of modern astrometric 
reference catalogues as anything else.

Indeed, most of these objects are more readily recoverable 
than are some GCVS objects that have been included in the 
GCVS since its inception.  This should be no great 
surprise, the former use at least GSC 1.x and modern 
computer algorithms for their positional reference and 
calculation, whereas the latter had naught but a graduated 
rule and a copy of a Durchmusterung or other from which to 
obtain a position.

Cheers

John

John Greaves
UK


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