Hi, The present discussion on delta Scorpii as a Be or gamma Cas star prompts me to ask about the latter. Quite a number of blue stars seem listed as gamma Cas variables yet they don't do anything much. Some we've used as UBV comparisons for decades without seeing any variation greater than 1%. Now I'm not querying delta Sco - a good effort by Sebastian and my congratulations - but I wonder how these others receive their classifications. Is this from spectral measures, or what? And I wonder how many blue stars are classed as low amplitude variables purely because of poor extinction corrections or transformations to the standard UBV system. Regards, Stan ----- Original Message ----- From: Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> To: <vsnet-be@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>; <vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>