[vsnet-chat 5196] Re: The future of charts and sequences

["Mike Simonsen" <mikesimonsen@mindspring.com>]

Pete,

You are exactly right about the use of the sequences for EBs. The real goal
in updating those charts was to have charts in a familiar format that _did_
include all the stars in the field down to a limiting magnitude and were
available online. Hopefully this will help encourage a new crop of observers
to get involved in eclipsing binaries.

It certainly won't hurt observers that we tried to make the sequences as
accurate as possible with the available information. Or that other variables
and NSVs in the field are labeled so they are not used as comp stars. Or
that artifacts that arise in most charting software, like galaxies plotted
as stars, have been either removed or noted to avoid confusion. Or that we
are pointing the observer to the right star, in spite of inaccuracies in
other reference sources.

One particular potential nightmare was AM Tau, whose position was ambiguous
in other references, and has a close neighbor of nearly the same brightness
at max, V726 Tau, another eclipsing binary!

Mike

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