visual observers

Thanks to the hard work of volunteer Stelios Kleidis, the Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars is now available in Greek!

You can download individual chapters or the entire Manual here.

If you know of anyone who may benefit from this translation, please spread the word!

The Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars is now available in Persian (Farsi).

http://www.aavso.org/visual-observing-manual-persian

This translation would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of volunteers Fatemeh Bahrani and her colleagues, Ali Honarmand, Fateme Kayanikhoo, Mozhde Mohamadi, Sajad Safari, and Arezoo Saleki of the Dr. Hesabi Institute in Shiraz, Iran (http://www.dr-hesabi.org).

Complete Manual:
(4.5 MB) راهنمای رصد بصری ستارگان متغیر
Sections:
(257 KB) مقدمه
(1.1 MB) فصل 1 – آماده سازی

Thanks to the hard work, dedication, and persistence(!) of AAVSO member/observer Péter Molnár and Dr. László Kiss, the January 2010 edition of the "Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars" is now available in Hungarian.

http://www.aavso.org/visual-observing-manual-hungarian

If you know of anyone who may benefit from this translation, please spread the word!

Thanks to the efforts of Cheng Simiao, a young and very enthusiastic observer from Beijing, we now have a new, more up-to-date Chinese version of the "Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars" available for download. He wishes that this edition be thought of as a 100th birthday present to the AAVSO as well as an 18th birthday gift to himself.

Congratulations and many thanks to Mr. Cheng!

Complete Manual - Manual para Observação Visual de Estrelas Variáveis (8.2 MB)
Published 1 September 2011

Sections:

AAVSO observer Raymond Winslow (Win) Jones passed away on 28 February 2007 at age 98.

Visual observations of variable stars make up the largest component of the AAVSO International Database now containing over 19 million observations on thousands of variable stars. These stars are primarily large-amplitude (visual range greater than one magnitude).

Version: 1.0
Release Date: January 15, 2008

This is one of two plain text (ASCII) formats that the AAVSO accepts for variable star observations. Observations in this format may be submitted using the WebObs File Upload Tool. The other format is intended for CCD, DSLR, PEP, and VISDIG (visual observations made from digital images) observers and is called the AAVSO Extended File Format.