Friends,
Thanks to your feedback, we realized that we needed to provide more guidance on the information required to accompany new star submissions on VSX. Taking into account the community’s comments, I have assembled a task force of volunteer observers, who have been working on a new VSX data submission manual, which can be found here: https://www.aavso.org/vsx/_images/Manual.pdf
The guide is linked on the VSX page at: https://www.aavso.org/vsx/
Please note that this is a live document, and we will be publishing updates every 6 months or so. As such, we would like to invite you, our community, to read it, test it and send us feedback. Other than being a helpful tool for first-time star submissions on VSX, this guide provides necessary links to resources, and examples/figures which demonstrate various concepts.
Many thanks to Juan-Luis Gonzalez Carballo, David Hinzel, Gabriel Murawski, Sebastián Otero and Patrick Wils who were instrumental in bringing this manual to fruition. We are looking forward to your comments.
Best wishes – clear skies,
Stella.