[vsnet-chat 3896] Re: RZ Leo astrometry

[Taichi Kato <tkato>]

Re: RZ Leo astrometry

>     I rather think that the importance of accurate astrometry was not
> properly recognized then, or by variable star researchers.  Variable star
> researchers tended to think accurate finding charts supersede astrometry.
> Given the secure identification on the 1984/1985 outburst, and the
> published correct identification and already existent quiescent observations,
> there couldn't have been, even at the time of late 1980's, such a large
> error if the importance of astrometry had been considered.

   The correct finding chart had been made already available by Vogt and
Bateson 1982, As. Ap. Suppl. 48, 383.  And accurate astrometry already
provided by Duerbeck 1987, Space Sci. Rev. 45, 1.  Both atlases had been
very popular and considered as "basic catalogs" among CV researchers.
The object was already correctly identified by Herbig 1957, PASP 70, 605,
and never got lost since.

Regards,
Taichi Kato

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