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Scientific collaboration is an important part of any scientific project.  Citizen Sky teams are designed to bring participants with like interests and complimentary skill sets together to work toward a common goal.  You can create your own team or become a member of an existing team. For more information on the Citizen Sky team concept please visit the team overview page.
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VStar Software Development

Variable star data visualization and analysis software development team.

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Visual understanding, analysis, development, and application.

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About Page for VStar Muck-ups

By nicocamargo on September 14, 2009 - 10:32am
Teams:

Vote please. Which one do you like best? Comments, requests, critiques are welcome.

VStar feedback forum

By mikeu on November 16, 2009 - 2:52pm
Teams:

After you have downloaded VStar and run it, we would like to get feedback on what you think.

Choose New Star from AAVSO Database. Maybe one from the 10 Star Tutorial, or enter something like "P Cyg" (the current AAVSO Variable Star of the Season) for Other Star. Click on a datapoint in the graph to see the details. Try Change Series to select data from a different filter band. Drag the mouse on the chart to zoom in on a selection. Try out the different features and let us know if you have any problems, suggestions for improvement or just general comments on your experience using VStar.

The goal is to make VStar easy to use and to provide you with a tool for seeing how variable stars change over time. We'd like to know your impressions on how it looks and works. Thanks for taking the time to let us know what you think!

Hi team

By astronomyed on September 2, 2009 - 4:22pm
Teams:

While I have no skills in programming, I would be happy to help out in the testing of the VStar software.
I'm running a 3.06 GHz Intel Core Duo iMac with Leopard 10.5.8
Hopefully, I'll be able to help out.

State of VStar (Sep 19 2009)

By david_benn on September 18, 2009 - 11:30pm
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This and future updates will give an overview of the state of VStar development.

It's hard to believe I was talking about VStar in Chicago more than a month ago!

I spent most of the first week after returning to Australia resisting the urge
to fall asleep at midday. :) In fact, I didn't do much for the first couple of
weeks after getting back except sleep and work at my day job.

Since then I've been doing the following:

o Adding to and working on entries in the SourceForge bug and feature list:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=263306&atid=1152052

o Reading CitizenSky postings.

o Watching the VStar Team grow and corresponding with you.

o Improving the codebase.

Here's a summary of what some on the team have been up to:Read more

Avoiding Bias: Simonsen's Rules for Variable Star Observing

By mikesimonsen on September 4, 2009 - 8:38am
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There has been some recent discussion about looking at the light curve or checking the quick look data of a star you are observing. The main concern revolves around observers having too much information, or a preconceived notion, before making an observation. We call this bias. The term biased is used to describe an action, judgment, or other outcome influenced by a prejudged perspective. In variable star observing, or any scientific investigation, bias is a bad thing.Read more

AAVSO Mentor Program

By mikesimonsen on September 9, 2009 - 10:39am
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AAVSO has a long tradition of mentoring its new observers. Since the earliest days of the AAVSO, experienced observers have helped new observers by corresponding, answering questions and even providing personal guidance at the telescope.

If you would like to "talk shop" with an experienced variable star observer, contact the AAVSO and we will put you in contact with the mentor program coordinator, Mike Simonsen. Just send us an email (aavso@aavso.org), or call 617-354-0484 to let us know you are interested in this program.Read more

8 VStar Desktop Icons To Vote For

By nicocamargo on November 24, 2009 - 9:32pm
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****UPDATED VERSIONS HERE****

>This file has the newer designs of the Desktop Icons. Shown against 2 backgrounds (light and dark). VOTE NOW!!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Suggestions and comments are welcome. Vote!

By the way, all icons involve the letters S and V, but they differ in font (and more obvious details). The stars are fomed with Vs, and the Ss are in the center. Look for them, they are there.
 

State of VStar (Sep 25 2009)

By david_benn on September 25, 2009 - 9:31am
Teams:

In this brief update I want to mention some recent important VStar changes.

1. A recent bug resulted in invalid and apparently random CitizenSky login failures via VStar. See this tracker item for details: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2865770&group_id=263306...

2. A performance improvement change to the AAVSO database schema took place a couple of days ago and VStar was changed to accommodate this. You should not notice any functional difference.

3. In the Star Selection dialog box, in addition to the 10-star drop-down menu, you can also enter a star's name or AAVSO Unique ID. For example, in the "Other Star" field, you could enter: SS Cyg

These changes are all in place on or before Subversion revision 210 (http://vstar.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vstar?view=rev&revision=210)

Regards,

David

VStar Development Process

By david_benn on September 30, 2009 - 10:24am
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Hi all

I have added a "VStar Development Process" page to the SourceForge wiki and received feedback from a few reviewers.

https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/vstar/index.php?title=Development...

Please have a look at this and feel free to ask questions.

If you would like to get involved, hopefully this document will give you more insight regarding how to get started.

It is my *goal* to get as much remaining phase I functionality (see planning document cited on the above page) in place by the time of the AAVSO meeting in November, along with as many high-priority tracker items.

Regards,

David

VStar build and invocation changes

By david_benn on October 11, 2009 - 6:08am
Teams:

I have just fixed a number of small problems related to building and invoking VStar, centering around problems with pulling in the correct jar files in some cases, e.g. if the MySQL JDBC connector/driver jar version is new than the one specified in extlib/ReadMe.txt

See this SourceForge tracker entry for details:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2876193&group_...

There are 3 ways to run VStar:

o Double-click the vstar.jar file icon (dist/vstar.jar)
o Type java -jar dist/vstar.jar (Unix) or java -jar dist\vstar.jar (DOS)
o Use 'ant run' (for developers and testers)

The vstar.bat and vstar.sh files have been removed. vstar.jnlp (WebStart) is not yet functional.

Regards,

David

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