Wow, and wow again! Thanks for the long list, which represents a quite impressive amount of work. Some questions: 1) Does Samus et al. in the Sternberg group in Moscow have this list? 2) Would you mind having a copy publicly available via the VSNET archives? 3) Have you considered publishing this? I think I've encouraged you to do so in the past, and again recommend it. A two- or three-pager in PASP would be sufficient as an announcement describing the working methods, with the complete list available via the data centers. 4) When you go through a specific publication (e.g. AN 290, 43 or an MVS sheet), do you identify everything, or just some/most of the stars? In other words, if you have stuff listed from AN 290,43, does that mean you've dealt with all the objects in that paper (so the rest of us can skip that one)? \Brian From graff@cfa0.harvard.edu Wed Mar 3 09:14:29 1999 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:14:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Gareth V. Williams" To: Brian Skiff Cc: Gareth Williams Subject: RE: Variables list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 3855 1) No. By all means let them have it. Even if they already have positions for some or all of the stars listed, this will serve as an independent check. 2) I don't mind. 3) Is it worth it? Even a summary in the PASP wouldn't be very exciting. There's nothing particularly new or clever in my methodology, simply lots of patience and a handful of little utility programs (for instance, to convert a list of original-epoch positions to J2000 and then match them automatically to the GCVS/NSV). 4) The intent was certainly to find everything in a given reference. In some cases, it was not possible to find all the stars. The list of completed references (i.e., everything id'd) is as follows: AJ 67, 360 AN 204, 429 AN 281, 179 AN 284, 165 Astron. Tsirk. 940 Astron. Tsirk. 943 IBVS 705, 748, 749, 771, 967, 1401, 1406, 1421, 2157, 2601, 2640, 2878, 3855, 4329, 4342, 4343, 4345, 4360 JO 46, No. 4, 126 KVB 9 [Only those with charts] Louv. Publ. 133 Louv. Publ. 137 MN 97, 541 MN 98, 65 Padova Publ. 164 (Mem. S. A. It. 44, No. 1, 53) Padova Publ. 166 (Mem. S. A. It. 44, No. 2, 273) Perem. Zvez. 5, 331 Perem. Zvez. 15, No. 1, 109 Perem. Zvez. 15, No. 2, 164 Perem. Zvez. 15, No. 5, 531 Perem. Zvez. 16, No. 4, 482 Perem. Zvez. Pirl. 3, 201 Perem. Zvez. Pril. 3, 216 Ric. Astr. 2, No. 7 Ric. Astr. 2, No. 10 Ric. Astr. 3, No. 1 Ric. Astr. 3, No. 7 Ric. Astr. 3, No. 14 Ric. Astr. 3, No. 15 Ric. Astr. 3, No. 16 Ric. Astr. 6, No. 1 Ric. Astr. 6, No. 5 Ric. Astr. 6, No. 6 Ric. Astr. 6, No. 7 Ric. Astr. 6, No. 8 Ric. Astr. 6, No. 9 Ric. Astr. 6, No. 11 Ric. Astr. 6, No. 14 Ric. Astr. 6, No. 15 Ric. Astr. 6, No. 16 Ric. Astr. 6, No. 17 Ric. Astr. 6, No. 22 Ric. Astr. 6, No. 28 Ric. Astr. 7, No. 4 Ric. Astr. 7, No. 6 Ric. Astr. 7, No. 16 Ric. Astr. 7, No. 18 Ric. Astr. 8, No. 3 Ric. Astr. 8, No. 8 Ric. Astr. 8, No. 9 Ric. Astr. 8, No. 10 Sonn. Mitt. 9 Sonn. Mitt. 10 Sonn. Mitt. 12 Vatican Obs. Publ. 1, No. 11 In addition, significant progress has been made on the following (missing objects are indicated, in some cases candidates were found but were not measured): AN 289, H. 5, 205 S 9520 (= SN 1965K), S 9610, S 9641, S 9642, S 9649, S 9655, S 9674, S 9682, S 9704 AN 290, 43 S 9748, S 9753, S 9757, S 9760, S 9767, S 9768, S 9777, S 9784, S 9800, S 9801, S 9803, S 9814, S 9815, S 9818, S 9824, S 9831, S 9832, S 9843 S 9850, S 9860, S 9862, [S 9882-S 10159 not examined], S 10065, S 10070, S 10071, S 10074, S 10075, S 10084, S 10085, S 10088, S 10093 [S 10094-S 10152 not examined] Berg. Abh. 6, No. 1 HBV 243, HBV 258, HBV 271, HBV 273, X 06, IBVS 1145 12 (NSV 13756) Leid. Obs. Ann. 22, 147 17 (CN Nor) Louv. Publ. 134 5 (AV Oct) In at least a handful of cases for the "missing" objects listed above, I can find the stars in the USNO. Clearly, some of these references were processed prior to the availability of the USNO. There are other publications which are almost complete, but I have do some mp work now... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gareth V. Williams, MS 18, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Associate Director, IAU Minor Planet Center E-mail address suppressed http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html OpenVMS & RISC OS: refined choices in operating systems From graff@cfa0.harvard.edu Wed Mar 3 09:21:11 1999 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:20:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Gareth V. Williams" To: Brian Skiff Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 830 Completed references (numbers are as in the GCVS references list): 137, 174, 565, 675, 846, 856, 1237, 1306, 1314, 1319, 1320, 1925, 2773, 2774, 2775, 2776, 2778, 2958, 4043 [Correct reference is Louv. Publ. 137, not Louv. Publ. 126], 4117 [Correct refercence is Louv. Publ. 133, not Louv. Publ. 126], 4245, 4247, 4254, 4255, 4258, 4266, 4401, 4411, 4413, 4414, 4424, 4761, 5542, 5564, 5701, 5874, 5875, 6325, 6503, 6873, 6895, 7011, 7474, 7749, 7950, 7951, 8202, 8206, 8361, 8392, 8475, 8984, 9012, 9068. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gareth V. Williams, MS 18, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Associate Director, IAU Minor Planet Center E-mail address suppressed http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html OpenVMS & RISC OS: refined choices in operating systems