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AAVSO Extended Format and APASS check stars

RMH
Affiliation
Vereniging Voor Sterrenkunde, Werkgroep Veranderlijke Sterren (Belgium) (VVS)
Mon, 04/02/2018 - 19:07

Hi,

I've implemented AAVSO Extended Format for pyaavso (will contribute it after cleanup etc) and have a question on how to fill in the field KNAME when doing ensemble photometry.

KNAME is the check star name, and I would like to fill in an APASS check star in this field.
Which name should I use?

regards,
Mike

SGEO
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Fri, 07/06/2018 - 17:58
pyAAVSO

Greetings Mike,

Sorry I missed the email way back when.

Are you still working on python software that will create AEFF records? Sounds interesting! How can we help?

George
SGEO

 

RMH
Affiliation
Vereniging Voor Sterrenkunde, Werkgroep Veranderlijke Sterren (Belgium) (VVS)
Thu, 11/14/2019 - 09:41
writing aavso files with python

Hi,

Took a long time for me to read this reply :). In the link below you can see my aavso writer, I've changed it a bit from the original design because I need to write large aavso files (10k+) so I'm now just building up the string and write it once. Suggestions always welcome of course :)

https://github.com/mrosseel/vast-automation/blob/master/src/aavso.py