[vsnet-chat 5284] cats

["H.GLindberg" <021-70184@telia.com>]

Hi ,
Its a lot of different variable cats like  this and more somtimes i think i find a new cat or list evry week
; BnV Bengtsson Variable 
;BV Bamberg Variable 
;GR G. Romano
; HadV Haseda Variable
; HBV Hamburg-Bergedorf Variable
;HV Harvard Variable
;LD L. Dahlmark 
;MisV MISAO 
;S Sonneberg
;SVS Soviet Variable Star
;TASS The Amateur Sky Survey 
;TASV The Astronomer Suspected Variable 
;TAV The Astronomer Variable
;TmzV Takamizawa Variable
;VV Vatican Variable
;Wr Weber 
This is only a few i have not count them all
And I think this is great......but why cant the creators use a standard form for the cats??

And why cant the star still have its existing name from USNO or GSC cat??

Why not a form like this:
"Epoch   USNO/GSC  hh mm ss   +- dd mm ss   magn/max min   period " and so on and finished with a  REM column
Or why not use the standard of GCVS with a remarks, still keeping an existing star name and under REM the cat creator can put the MisV0001 or LD22 ,HadV 10000 etc.
Or at list if they must have a own star name like S2145 please use a standard form for building the cat.
I want to put this cats in to my astro software, some can edit this cat very well, some software don't and its a hell to manual edit all this different.
What do you other user thing, and what do you cat creators say.

Regards
Hans-Goran Lindberg

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