Project idea

[Simonsen]

I have been talking with Andrew Drake (actually doing an interview for
the CV section site) and he would like to share the Catalina Sky
Survey data and have their observations entered into the AAVSO
International Database.

There are probably at least two steps here. 1- you'll have to submit
any stars not in VSX already to the VSX moderators before AAVSO will
be able to accept the data. Most of the CVs have been added by Patrick
Wils as they come in, but just saying... and then 2)- create, write
some script or small app that will take the data in their format and
transform it into a format acceptable to WebObs upload.

Here is one link to data on bright catclysmic variables discovered by
Catalina Real-time Transient Survey.
http://nesssi.cacr.caltech.edu/catalina/BrightCV.html#table1

They also have a lot of data on known variables, SN, AGN, etc.
http://nesssi.cacr.caltech.edu/catalina/Allns.html

Andrew can be contacted at Andrew Drake <a...@cacr.caltech.edu>

Mike