Following the Cyberbrick Road

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Following the Cyberbrick Road
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• Aaron Price Kate Davis
• AAVSO Annual Meeting
• October 15, 2005

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NVO

• Standards for Astronomical Databases Services
• New databases at HQ
• Means lots of new services for you

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Sepia old tyme
December 10, 1997
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December 8, 1998
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August, 2000
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June, 2003
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2004 - present
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1996
2005
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1995
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Light Curve Generator

• Quicker
• More symbols graph control
• Embed into your own pages
• Linked to NVO/VOPlot
• Linked to more planetarium software
• Better UI

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Quick Look

• More data (comment codes, charts, comp stars)
• More search options
• Better linkage to LCG
• Your most popular searches remembered

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MyNewsFlash

• HTML version
• Light curves
• Links to more data, papers
• Realtime?
• Fadings
• Share lists
• VOEvent

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ACP

• Automated Chart Plotter
• Customized charts w/unique ID
• Unique ID submitted with observations
• Chart can be linked to the observation (and
  generated)

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VSX

• Variable Star Index
• Links known catalogs
• Nexus of all known data
• Suspects databases
• Kudos to Chris Watson

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WebObs

• New GUI
• Members-only Features
• Research past observations
• Realtime totals
• Change personal information

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False Starts 1

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False Starts 2

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• Hey, we werent the only ones with bad ideas...

If we have time, pics of aavso members from the
1970s with bell bottoms, big hair, sideburns,
etc.
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Birth of a Web Page

• Input
• Ideas
• Testing
• Publishing

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Future
No promises, just ideas...

• New Web Design
• RSS
• MyAAVSO
• More video
• Online Meetings
• What do you want??

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