Variable Star Network

VSNET (Variable Star Network) is an international variable star observing
network, covering various areas of novae, supernovae, cataclysmic variables
(CVs), X-ray transients, and other classical eruptive, pulsating, and
eclipsing variables. VSNET is one of invited contributing organizations
to the SkyPub AstroAlert system.

The "News from VSNET", mainly focusing on recent remarkable activities of
CVs and related systems, is issued on a weekly basis, except on occasions
of extremely urgent or transient events.

Please refer to the VSNET Home Page for more details of events and
objects listed.

VSNET Home Page: www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/

VSNET provides a number of mailing lists, on which various news and topics
are discussed. Subscriptions to the VSNET mailing lists are free of charge;
please refer to the instruction on the above page if a reader needs more
information of the list structure.

CCD observations of such targets are a relatively easy task for a 20-40cm
telescope; simply take as many CCD frames (with exposure times 10-30 sec)
as possible, spanning several hours per night. The only requirements are
the weather and your patience! If you need more help on the observing
technique, please feel free to ask on the vsnet-campaign list.

We would sincerely appreciate volunteers who would join the VSNET
Collaboration team to study the wonders of these exotic variable stars.
To join the VSNET campaign collaborative list, send an e-mail to

vsnet-adm@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp (VSNET administrator)

with a line "SUBSCRIBE vsnet-campaign."
(VSNET campaign members are strongly recommended to subscribe to vsnet-alert
at the same time).

Hello Albert & All, i've subscribed to VSNET for about a year & a half now, it's a super organisation originating in Japan, indispensible if you are into variable stars - from supernova, nova & others. I look for novae myself, you can subscribe to their e-mail alerts - definitely vsnet-alert, you can also submit your observations via e-mail, but 1 word of warning, DON'T!!! subscribe to vsnet ALL - you will recieve about 8-10,000 e-mails per day - no messin'!!!!
A great org. to be a part of though.
Albert, do you subscribe yourself?, Keith....

Albert, do you subscribe yourself?, Keith....

I signed up for the alerts when I got (briefly) interested in variable stars. I tried plotting the light curves, but I'm a poor judge of brightness! and the clouds in this country result in a very sparesely populate graph!

My subscrition is now just to get news of anything `special`.

Cheers,
~al