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New Guy

Hey dudes.

I'm new to the list. Tom was kind enough to send me the new CD of data. I'm
starting simple and want to verify my logic. Please excuse my newbieness. I
want to make sure I have the basic process down.

First I ran the wsv3.pl script on the collected.big file. Then I opened it
in Excel and sorted by the ws column. To keep it easy I deleted all the
records with ws values less than 1. This left me with just over 9000
records. The one at the top had a massive ws value of 879. I grep'd the data
for this star out of the collected.big file and graphed it and it showed an
obvious brightening. I entered the average coordinates into VizieR and it
seems this star (number 89 from the collected.big file) is RW Mon.

If it hadn't shown up in the GCVS I would go through the processed described
on http://www.tass-survey.org/tass/suspect.html. This sound ok?

I'm not sure where I can best add value here, but one thing I could easily
do is write a script to interact with SIMBAD or VizieR  to look for probable
matches for stars with ws > 1. This is my current intention.

Question: do the GCVS and NSV catalogs have most "known" variable in them?

Cheers,
Michael Koppelman
http://www.lolife.com/astronomy/