[vsnet-chat 5149] Re: [vsnet-gcvs 169] (fwd) GCVS errors for CVs

[Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

Re: [vsnet-chat 5142] Re: [vsnet-gcvs 169] (fwd) GCVS errors for CVs

>      That said, I confess also to having a huge bundle of lists from Timo
> that I have not dealt with.  I do wish to check things myself carefully
> against current catalogues (not all readily available to Timo), and simply
> to look for goofs of all sorts (I'm very impressed with what Timo's done,
> but he's a human being, too!).  My hope is that no one will have to go
> through all this again, beyond perhaps the GCVS folks making a final check
> for themselves, a job that I hope can be made much easier/faster for our
> having done things carefully at our end.

    Perhaps Timo may wish to post these improved IDs to vsnet-gcvs (and/or
vsnet-id) as in the manner he did in the past.  He asked me the exact
format needed to be automatically incorporated, and he followed my suggestion
until the works by Kinnunen and Skiff started.  What is needed is only
a few steps back, not a complete modification of the process.

>      I note also that all the Kinnunen & Skiff star positions are loaded
> into SIMBAD.  Thus I see no reason to post the lists to vsnet:  they are
> already available in several ways on-line!

    This is not a solution to what Yoshida-san asked, and a solution to
every star chart programmers.  I bet star chart programmers will not
want to consult SIMBAD for all their entries...  And the consequence of
the lack of a publicly available single reliable file of variable stars
can be clearly seen in recent incorrect observations by Toni Scarmato.

    It is not the ultimate solution to most amateurs that "everything
is in SIMBAD".

Regards,
Taichi Kato

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