[vsnet-id 251] Multiple messages (was Re: [vsnet-chat 3369] Re: V996 Centauri - Neglected star?)

[John Isles <jisles@voyager.net>]

This exchange illustrates a problem in having so many different vsnet
lists.  To keep down the volume of messages, it would be helpful if
people posting messages would first stop to think which vsnet list is
most appropriate, and post only to that list -- not to three at once.

Best wishes -- John Isles.

Taichi Kato wrote:
> 
> Re: V996 Centauri  - Neglected star?
> 
> >                         I've noticed that V996 Cen is being avoided in
> > the compiled lists of pulsating red stars and in vsnet-mira and
> > vsnet-recent. I also found the star missing in some GCVS updates (I've
> > got plenty of new Name Lists that I can't recall now). But V996 Cen is
> > in fact classified as an Lb star and my observations show a very
> > interesting behaviour.20
> >                         What's the current V996 Cen status. Maybe some
> > mistake is causing this star to be absent from the mails.
> 
>     Thank you for pointing out for this.  I took the elements of Hipparcos
> variables from the Hipparcos main catalogue (not from Name List 74 because
> they contained no classfication nor period).  I have found V996 Cen in
> hip_va_2.dat in the Hipparcos catalogue, but this is not flagged for
> new variable stars (the second column of this table), which have caused
> the omission.  I hope this kind of error be corrected in the future versions
> of the Hipparcos catalogue.
> 
>     I have duly added this star to my database, so that it will be properly
> processed.
> 
> Regards,
> Taichi Kato

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