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AAVSO’s Astronomical Data Bank

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Janet Akyüz Mattei*
Affiliation:
The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)

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The AAVSO founded in 1911 is the largest organization of variable star observers in the world, with 1100 members in 49 states and 38 countries. AAVSO Headquarters, in Cambridge, MA, receives about 150,000 observations a year from about 400 active observers. Since 1911, over 4 million observations have been compiled. The limiting visual magnitude of observations is about AAVSO’s observing program contains about 2000 variable stars of the following types: Mira (825); semiregular (350); cataclysmic-U Gem, Z Cam, nova, recurrent nova, novalike, symbiotic (200); cepheid (120); R Coronae Borealis (20); RV Tauri (30); nebular (100); flare (15); irregular (140); suspected variables (200). AAVSO has finder charts for most of the stars.

Type
Abstracts of Workshop Papers on Dwarf Novae
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