Friends,
It is a pleasure to announce that a new version of our “Find AAVSO Members/Observers” tool is ready, and can be found under:
https://www.aavso.org/apps/member/search/
The tool enables our members to find AAVSOers all over the world (and in their immediate neighborhood) based on location. Its new function allows contacting other AAVSO members/observers by their unique observer code. It is great that we are now able to connect with people around us who acquire data on similar objects! As always, communications among individuals takes place through the AAVSO web pages.
I would like to thank our volunteer Phil Manno for the time and energy he put on this project. We appreciate Phil’s enthusiasm and it is great to have him on our team!
I invite any of you who would like to help us improve the AAVSO’s software, to join us! We rely on our skilled volunteers for many of our projects, and we would appreciate all the help we can get to improve our tools. We primarily need people who know Drupal, Django and/or MySQL. We also need volunteers to test new and existing apps, helping our programmers to tighten up their code. Please let us know if you are interested!!!
Best wishes – clear skies,
Stella.
Splendid. I did a search and got more than 100 observers in a radius of 100 km from my adress. Whow, I couldn't image so many AAVSO observers.
Nice work, Phil! Easy to use, fast and with good results. It's nice to be able to see our fellow members again.
I tried it out, and it worked great. Where I live, there are only 2 others within a 100 km radius. At least I know that I am not alone.