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By design, tass does not have a policy on anything. I like reporting stars by position. With spaces. 14 23 14.1 +07 34 14 That way one can enter them straight into Vizier to get any existing catalogs. On the Wiki page, we attempt to cross reference as many catalogs as possible. The idea of the wiki is to collect there all the information on a star. Often this takes considerable time, so once the work is done, why not write it down? The Wiki is our place to write it down. If someone wants measurements on this star or any other in the tass data base, I can look them up until I get tired of it. The data base is pretty current, (no more than a month behind) so that is the first place to go. But if you are after the very latest data I might have, send a position as above. At tass I try to encourage following existing conventions and standards. There are already enough catalogs. That is why we do not have a tass catalog as such. We just have a list of measurements by position. Seems to me that if you have the position, then the catalog number/designation is unnecessary. Of course if it is on some special list like carbon stars, etc., then the list helps. In most cases the position is enough to find the other information. Tom Droege > [Original Message] > From: Michael Linnolt <linnolt@hawaii.edu> > To: Seiichi Yoshida <comet@aerith.net> > Cc: <vsnet-newvar@ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>; aavso discussion <aavso-discussion@aavso.org> > Date: 9/25/2003 5:34:46 AM > Subject: [AAVSO-DIS] Re: 155var near HX Peg - designation? > > Very well, then, I will assign my own designation to this variable > pending GCVS: LinV2312 (for Linnolt Variable 23h +12) > > Any objections? > > Mike > > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Seiichi Yoshida wrote: > > > Dear Michael Linnolt, > > > > [vsnet-newvar 2222]: > > > Has there been a designator assigned yet to this new variable? > > > > Mike, please show us the proper designation, because this is your > > variable star :-) > > > > I do not know about AAVSO. But the VSNET does not show us the > > "official" designation. So if the discoverers of new variable stars > > want to collect observations from people, it is the discoverers' > > responsibility to provide the designation, I believe. > > > > In the case of the MISAO Project, we assign our own designation like > > MisV0001. > > > > In the case of the TASS Project, they report their stars with GSC > > numbers or HD numbers, so the other people should report the > > observations using those numbers. > > > > In your own case, the USNO-B1.0 number can be one of the > > designations. > > > > Of course it is a temporary designation, until the GCVS number is > > assigned. But it takes some time, of course. > > > > Only in the case of a new nova, Kato-san leads us to use a common > > temporary designation, like OPHnova2003, soon after the discovery. But > > it is an exceptional case. The principle seems as same as the CBAT to > > me. I mean, only a nova is deal well. > > > > I know everyone does not want to pay attention for > > designation. Sometimes a new star is remained without any proper > > common designation, like in this case. In such cases, I think the > > VSNET administrators should take a leadership role in assigning the > > designation. But actually, they do not. Maybe that means the VSNET > > does not want us to observe the star and report them to VSNET to be > > collected into the VSNET database... > > > > Best regards, > > > > -- > > Seiichi Yoshida > > comet@aerith.net > > http://vsnet.aerith.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Aavso-discussion mailing list > Aavso-discussion@mira.aavso.org > http://mira.aavso.org/mailman/listinfo/aavso-discussion
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