Charts and Comparison Stars: A Road Map to the Future

Volume 33 number 1 (2005)

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A. Price

AAVSO

V. Petriew

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M. Simonsen

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Abstract

In the past few years the AAVSO's publication of variable star charts has undergone many changes. The result of these changes has been the creation of the Chart Team and the Comparison Star Database Working Group. We will describe these two projects and present early results. Then we will detail the future merging of these two projects into the Automated Chart Plotter (ACP), an online tool for observers to create star charts customized for their own equipment, observing location, and personal preferences.