[vsnet-chat 268] Re: Mira

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

At 11:09 PM 4/24/97 GMT, Charles Scovill wrote:
>It is a wonder that no one from AAVSO has spoken up about our records on Mira.
>It is one of the stars in the book by Leon Campbell on light curves and maxima
>of long period variable stars.  The earliest maxima of Mira in that volume go
>back to JD 2422822, over 130 years ago.  AAVSO has a database of individual
>observations on Mira in electronically accessible form from then to now.
>You can access the AAVSO on the Internet at WWW.AAVSO.COM

Well, we've had one of our group access this database and there is nothing
there on Mira, nor any other stars in Cetus. 

I've also taken note of the comments in the AAVSO News Flashes and requested
information on R Hydrae - its history also goes back over 300 years - but
without success. 

Is there some sort of problem there - or are we doing something wrong?

These two stars form part of an interesting analysis that I'm engaged on. I
have almost all the dates of maxima of Mira back to 1596 but the individual
measures would be useful - the Japanese as always have been very helpful -
many thanks!

Regards,
Stan Walker

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