Variable Star Book

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Thanks to John G.'s recommendation, I now have a copy of "Light Curves of 
variable stars" by Sterken and Jaschek.  What a mess!  I will look at my 
data with a different eye.  $75 for this thin little volume.  Inflation in 
the book biz, I think.  Jennifer just got her book published and it is 
priced at $20.  She was appalled.

At first glance, the classification of variable stars is a complete 
jumble.  I think I will not attempt to make any classifications, but stick 
to trying to take good data.  Let someone else try to make sense of 
it.  Sigh!  The glory goes to those that classify data rather than those 
that take the measurements.  Well understood by Tycho Brahe.  Still I will 
choose to be a measurer rather than an analyzer.  Someone has to do it or 
there would be no analysis.

Tom Droege