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On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 11:33 PM, Taichi Kato wrote: > a lot of NEW RESEARCH will be needed. Good! We're dying to do it. I still think we need more people like the CBA's Joe Patterson who actively leads amateur observer campaigns. I can't help but think that that all of us eager amateurs with CCD's and BVRI filters couldn't be of more use if we are utilized more effectively. The AAVSO is great for LPV stuff primarily, VSNET certainly encourages us to follow up when something is super-humping or in outburst. That still leaves a lot of territory, IMHO. When I am a professional astronomer someday, I'm not going to forget my amateur roots and I am going to utilize this vast army of observers like Joe P. and few others do. Cheers, Michael Koppelman http://vsnet.lolife.com/astronomy/
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