How to report your visual estimates?

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URSA Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section (Finland) (URSA)
Mon, 10/17/2016 - 10:46

Hello everyone!

I have a question regarding how to report your visual estimates to AAVSO..

BAA.VSS is advising to round your magnitude estimates to nearest tenth of a magnitude, for example 6.44 > 6.4 and 6.47 > 6.5.

I haven't found any advise on this while browsing the AAVSO visual observing manual.

Does AAVSO have any official advise about this, should we round the estimates or not?

Best regards,

Juha Ojanperä (OJMA)

Finland