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Dear Dr. Brian Skiff, Thank you for your comments. > The latest version is available from the source: > http://vsnet.sai.msu.su/groups/cluster/gcvs/gcvs/intro.htm I could find the following three files contain all of GCVS stars and NSV stars, including the Name List 77. http://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/groups/cluster/gcvs/gcvs/iii/iii.dat http://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/groups/cluster/gcvs/gcvs/nsv/nsv.dat http://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/groups/cluster/gcvs/gcvs/nsvsup/nsvs.dat I looked up stars revised in IBVS 4813 and 4841 by us. Stars in Aql, Cyg, Lac, Lyr, Oph have been already revised in the files above. But the coordinates slightly differ from those in our papers, so probably they were revised based on other sources, not our papers. But anyway, they have been already revised. On the other hand, any of stars in Sge, Sgr, Sct, Vul have not been revised yet. It seems depending on the constellations in alphabetical order. So I imagine the GCVS team is now revising their catalogs from A to Z in order of constellation, but still in the midway. > The GCVS on-line query service: > http://vsnet.sai.msu.su/groups/cluster/gcvs/cgi-bin/search_new.html The Query form service shows us the coordinates in 0.1 arcsec accuracy. But in the "iii.dat" file, the coordinates are recorded only in 1 arcsec accuracy. Which file are the coordinates in 0.1 arcsec accuracy recorded in? > As an alternative, for known/designated variables, probably vsnet-id > is as good a place as any. Remember that the Moscow GCVS group are the As wrote above, stars in Cyg have been already revised by GCVS team. However, I found some stars in Cyg revised by us and reported to vsnet-id, have not been merged in the "iii.dat" yet, like V2010 Cyg in [vsnet-id 299]. So I do not think that vsnet-id is a good place to report the revised positions. Due to the slight difference between the positions in our papers and in "iii.dat", probably our paper did not help the GCVS team at all. So, probably, IBVS is not a good place to report the revised positions, either. Anyway, I will pick up stars whose position in the current GCVS file is very far from the true position and post to vsnet-id, but I will forget about stars whose catalogued positions several arcsec differ from the true positions. Best regards, -- Seiichi Yoshida comet@aerith.net http://vsnet.aerith.net/
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