[vsolj 14513] Re: [vsolj-adm 186] Contributing CCD photometry to VSOLJ from outside Japan― two questions

["K.Nagai via vsolj" <vsolj@cetus-net.org>]

Dear Dr. Maehara,
This is Nagai.
How should be the reply to this email?
Can you have a conversation online on Saturday?


----- Original Message -----
>Subject: [vsolj-adm 186] Contributing CCD photometry to VSOLJ from outside Japan ? two questions
>From: "James Dai via vsolj-adm" <vsolj-adm@cetus-net.org>
>To: vsolj-adm@cetus-net.org
>Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:16:06 -0700
>
>
>Dear VSOLJ,
>
>I hope you will forgive my writing in English.
>
>I help my daughter Vivian Dai with a variable-star observing programme in
>Vancouver, Canada. She observes with a ZWO Seestar S30 Pro ? a 30 mm smart
>telescope with a colour CMOS sensor and no filter wheel ? and holds AAVSO
>observer code VDBA. Three of her times of minimum of SW Lacertae are in the
>B.R.N.O. / VarAstro O?C database, and we have recently been corresponding
>with the BAA about their photometry database.
>
>I found the joining instructions for the vsolj-obs mailing list on
>https://www.google.com/url?q=http://cetus-net.org&source=gmail&ust=1786900261326000&sa=E,
>and I can see from the observation search that VSOLJ already holds a great
>deal of data on SW Lacertae, including CCD green-band measurements. Before
>subscribing to an observation-reporting list I would rather ask two things
>than assume:
>
>1. Does VSOLJ accept observations from an observer outside Japan? Every
>name I can see in the observer code list is Japanese, which may simply
>reflect who has asked rather than any rule, but I did not want to start
>posting to the list without checking.
>
>2. If so, how is a VSOLJ observer code obtained? Vivian's AAVSO code is
>VDBA, but I understand VSOLJ uses its own three-letter codes and I could
>not find how one is assigned.
>
>For context on what we would be contributing: differential CCD photometry
>of eclipsing binaries and pulsators, reduced against a named comparison
>star from an AAVSO chart with a check star, one point per exposure. It
>would be untransformed green-channel data, comparable to the cG
>measurements already in your database, and we would be glad to follow
>whatever format and conventions you prefer.
>
>If VSOLJ is not the right home for observations from abroad, that is a
>perfectly good answer and I am grateful for your time either way.
>
>With best wishes,
>James Dai
>Vancouver, Canada