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AAVSO’s Astronomical Data Bank
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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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
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 53: White Dwarfs and Variable Degenerate Stars , August 1979 , pp. 506
- Copyright
- Copyright © The University of Rochester 1979