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The AAVSO Research Portal

Welcome to the AAVSO's Research Portal.  From this page, you can find information about obtaining AAVSO data, requesting new observations, or learning more about the AAVSO, its data, and its services for the research community.  Its purpose is to facilitate your use of the AAVSO's resources in your research efforts.

See the gray boxes on the right hand side of this page to access the AAVSO data archives or to find out  how to work with the AAVSO to obtain new scientific data.

 

Digitization of AAVSO data published in the Harvard Annals

In the 1980s, the AAVSO began a monumental project to completely digitize the paper and punchcard records of the AAVSO.  This project, undertaken just as computers became more common and easy to use, foreshadowed the rapid advancement in networking technology that led directly to the world wide web, and to the AAVSO website.  As a result of the work the AAVSO did, we are now able to serve our archive of over 18 million observations to the entire world via our website, providing decades worth of variable star observations for thousands of different variable stars to researchers world-wide.

The AAVSO Archives—Special Collections

AAVSO Atlases Collection--Atlas Coelestis (flats)
AAVSO Atlases Collection--Atlas Coelestis Novus
AAVSO Atlases Collection--Atlas Coelestis Novus
AAVSO Atlases Collection--Uranometria Nova

AAVSO Charts Collection
AAVSO Charts Collection Box 1 Blueprint Charts (early)
AAVSO Charts Collection Box 1 SU UMa Supermax Notes
AAVSO Charts Collection Box 1 catalogs, misc. charts
AAVSO Charts Collection Box 2-3 Blueprint Charts
AAVSO Charts Collection Box 4 Mitchell Sequences and other charts

The AAVSO Archives—JAM admin. coll.

AAVSO Admin. JAM Box 1 Commonwealth reports
AAVSO Admin. JAM Box 1 Data Processing (Computer Equipment and Services--1)
AAVSO Admin. JAM Box 1 Data Processing (Computer Equipment and Services--2)
AAVSO Admin. JAM Box 1 Data Processing (Computer Programs from Members)
AAVSO Admin. JAM Box 1 Data Processing (misc. programs)
AAVSO Admin. JAM Box 1 Data Processing (misc. projects)
AAVSO Admin. JAM Box 1A Data Processing (Documentation)
AAVSO Admin. JAM Box 1A Data Processing (Monograph Instructions)