[vsnet-chat 932] Re:

[Mati Morel <morel@ozemail.com.au>]

>Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 17:44:30
>To: Gary Poyner <gp@star.sr.bham.ac.uk>
>From: Mati Morel <morel@ozemail.com.au>
>Subject: Re: [vsnet-chat 925] Re: LaTEX ?
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>At 02:46 PM 5/10/98 +0100, you wrote:
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>>On Sun, 10 May 1998, Taichi Kato wrote:
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>>>    I have heard the IBVS doesn't usually accept manuscripts based on
>>> visual observations (even heard of an author of being requested to
>>> remove visual data, by which the author intended to depict the outburst
>>> charactersitic).  I am curious to know whether the IBVS has changed the
>>> policy on visual observations.
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>>I too have heard the same rumours, and would be very interested to know 
>>why this is the case if so true!
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>>regards,
>>Gary Poyner
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>Hi all,
>        In 1993 I prepared a paper in collaboration with P. Camilleri (of nova
>discovery fame), to report some large amplitude red variables he had found, as 
>a byproduct of his photographic nova patrol. Lists of photographic observations
>were submitted to IBVS, but these proved to rather rough estimates (only 
>accurate to +/- 0.5mag), and we were advised (by the editors) to delete them
>and resubmit the paper. The paper finally appeared as IBVS no. 3923.
>        So, even photographic observations may be rejected, if they are clearly
>of a rough character. I think that the editors are clearly trying to encourage 
>observations of a higher accuracy and reliability.  With photographic
observations
>it is not always to easy to rate them, and so it appears to left to the
discretion
>of the editors, in the context of the submitted manuscript.  Where visual
estimates
>are concerned, the difficulty in assessing the quality would be even
greater. So,
>visual work are best handled, and results published, by the recognized
organizations
>such as AAVSO, RASNZ etc.
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>Regards,
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