Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Tue, 12/02/2014 - 20:56
I just noticed the observer total at 27.5+ million. Seems like its been lurking along at 26.5 million a few days ago. Did a big observer send in a lot of observations?
WGR
Hi Gary,
You were the first to notice! We just added 1.2 million observations kindly supplied to us by the BAA:
http://www.aavso.org/baavss-data-now-available-through-aavso
The formal press release and announcement by the BAA themselves are forthcoming. There will be about another 500K observations added in the near future.
Arne
I guess the next question is, which VS has the honor of being the first in the variable star in the British database?
David
David,
alpha Her JD 2401408.431 Sep 24th 1862 mag 3.1 T.W. Backhouse
regards
Gary [PYG]
Thanks for that
Gary,
Thanks for that information.
David
I would like to post a clarification to the discussion. The BAAVSS database is just over 2.5 million observations in total. Of those, the two million observations consist of about 1.2 million observations that are unique, along with about 800,000 that the AAVSO already has -- many BAAVSS observers submit to both organizations, so there are a number of duplicates between the two. So the total fraction of the BAAVSS database that's currently available through the AID is around 80 percent.
The remaining half million observations are a mixture of observers whom we need to add observer codes for, and observers and/or stars whose identities aren't yet reconciled with our database (i.e. an observer named "A. Smith" who may be one of the existing AAVSO observers). Sara Beck and I are both working on this project with Andy Wilson of the BAAVSS, and we'll post updates as they occur.
Matthew
Hello
Its great to have all the BAA observations included in the database where researchers can access them easily. Thanks BAA for your cooperation and help.
Gary
WGR
A thanks to all who have worked on this project.
Cheers,
Bob Dudley