What should be decided (continued)13;
13;
We can decide to merge the
GCVS with automatic surveys now. I have
already outlined the difficulties and will give some examples illustrating the problems slightly later.13; Steve Kawaler's suggestion:
'The GCVS personnel might play a role as a
`meta-catalog' - a central `index' of survey-based catalogs of variable stars'. We like this suggestion in general. However, it
should be worked out in more detail. If we want
to have a good meta-catalog, the
difficulties I have mentioned in relation to merging the catalogues still should be considered. 13;