VSS is comprised of a community of like-minded individuals working collectively to meet a variety of research goals.
The following pages provide information about the activities of the community.
The VSS Newsletter is usually published four times a year. It provides project leaders with the opportunity to publish interim results and project information and for members to report on activities. It includes regular sections on publications, hardware and software relevant to variable star observers. You can filter the list by year by clicking on the links to the right.
The following are documents, articles, posters etc from recent years that yeild significant information
As noted elsewhere, Variable Stars South was formed out of the ashes of the old RASNZ Variable Star Section. The Director of the RASNZ VSS was Dr Frank M Bateson, who produced a series of documents called “Publications of Variable Star Section, Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand”, which replaced an earlier document series referred to as Circulars. There were 25 issues between 1974 and 1999.
As noted elsewhere, Variable Stars South was formed out of the ashes of the old RASNZ Variable Star Section. That organisation generated a series of documents known as Circulars, which were later replaced by the Publications.
In 1989, Mati Morel set himself the goal of preparing a chart for every new southern nova that came up. These were sent out to a select group of observers, often within 24 hours. They were sent out under the banner name “Variable Star Memorandum”, or VSM for short. The VSMs ran to 236 issues between 1989 and 2014, when he stopped producing them.