Dear all,
I have a sensitive subject to discuss with you
I have sent to aavso since 20 years thousands of measures of variables stars (lightcurves with full period)
I have too, my name in 24 professionnal publications for the observations (data) I sent to professionnals (occultations, phemu, astrometry...) but NEVER a publication which uses my data sent to aavso
author:("coliac") - NASA/ADS (harvard.edu)
So I do not understand how our data sent to aavso are used by professionnal astronomers
How my lightcurves sent to aavso are used by professionnal ?
How is it possible that NONE of my numerous lightcurves uploaded to aavso is used by professionnal ?
Why the name of the observer who sends data to aavso is never used in professionnal publications.
I feel that all the time, hundreds of hours of observing and lot of money I spend to upload data to aavso is for... nothing...
Observers upload data to aavso but what do aavso to carry back to observers and credit their observations in professional publications ?
Is it a unilateral relation between aavso and observers ?
I think there is a large improvement from aavso staff to do a feed back to observers
Does other observers are in the same case ?
Please share with me
Best regards
Jean-Francois