Hi Canopus,

Canopus wrote:

Alexander Avtanski wrote in message ...

When it comes to observing variable
stars, are the charts detailed enough not only to be
used to find the star in question, but also to allow
reasonable magnitude estimation - do they generally have
enough comparison stars with plotted magnitude around?


You can also directly download individual AAVSO charts over the
internet. Go to:

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Thanks, I know. That is what I'm doing now. However, I was going
to get the AAVSO atlas in order to stop downloading all the time.
What usually happens is that just after I get dark-adapted, I
figure out that I'm missing some chart that I need, so I have to
go to the site, download and print the chart, etc... After time
it gets very, very annoying.

What I was worried a bit is that maybe the atlas will not go into
such details, and even with it I'll need to download the charts,
but it seems it is quite useful.

Regards,

- Alex