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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 93 16:29 MDT From: hanben@saaf.se (Hans Bengtsson) Path: electra.saaf.se!electra.saaf.se!not-for-mail From: hanben@electra.saaf.se (Hans Bengtsson) Newsgroups: saaf.to-ML Subject: Exchange of V.S. results Date: 14 Aug 1993 16:23:59 +0200 Organization: SAAF, Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening Lines: 45 Sender: saaf@electra.saaf.se Message-ID: <vsnet-history1339@hoge.baba.hajime.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: electra.saaf.se Dear Mr Tako, Many thanks for your e-mail. We shall be happy to exchange our V.S. results with yours. We already receive your results, and I thought that the information was spread also in the other direction, via the Scandinavian e-mail service on variable stars. I am sorry if this is not the case, but I promise that this will be solved within short. It may be interesting for you to know, that the Swedish BBS for amateur astronomers has been in use for some years now. It is very popular and works well. The computer is situated in Stockholm, while I am observing from Goteborg (Sweden's 2nd city). In spite of bright city skies, V.S. observing can be performed without too much difficulty from here. Our BBS is divided into 21 "meetings" (called j1 ... j21). After an observing session, I send a preliminary report to j5. Then, before logging out, I type OBSSEND filenumber, and the specified file is then automatically sent from j5 to the Scandinavian V.S. e-mail service in Finland. From there, it is distributed to people connected to that service (as I said, I thought all the way to Japan ...). Some hours later, my report returns to our BBS, to j21, where also nightly reports from (for instance) Granslo in Norway, Poyner in England, Schmeer in Germany, and not at least Tako in Japan, are found. Such reports from abroad are extremely valuable for us. The autumn season has just started in Sweden; very few, if any, reports from us have been sent in June and July (this could perhaps be the simple solution?). Please let me know if you have received full reports (with altogether about 90 or 100 estimates) for the night Aug 13-14 from Margareta Westlund and myself. If not, then it is obvious that the communication works only in one direction as the situation stands today. My confirmation of the DX And outburst was sent specifically to you, besides via our general OBSSEND command. No rain of Perseids could be seen from Goteburg, only rain consisting of droplets! Stockholm and Uppsala were more lucky, with about 1000 people gathered outside the Uppsala observatory, sitting in chairs and eating hamburgers, which were sold all night. When the sharp maximum took place, however, morning light had already come. Please let me here from you soon, Regards, Hans Bengtsson
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