AAVSO template for variable star data

[joseboschbailach]

Hello. I am doing photometry with PixInsight and I would like to upload my results to AAVSO. Now, our team is focused on cataclysmic variable stars. I have seen in AAVSO website a list of software which is able to create a template in order to do that. Photometry using PixInsight yields csv files which we reduce with Excel and MicroCalc Origin. Would it be possible to make a script that would create a template for such a case? Thanks

[Juan Conejero]

Yes, absolutely. A script can do this in PixInsight and much more. Actually, you can do everything you do in Excel and other spreadsheet applications with a script, probably much better. Can you provide information on the template format you want to use?

[joseboschbailach]

Yes, I agree with you. I made an Excel macro in order to "clean" and compute the photometry from generated csv. You can see the next AAVSO link for more clues,

https://www.aavso.org/software-exports-aavso-format

I think a good idea could be to appear PixInsight in that list.  In any case I have done the photometric reduction and it is very easy to create and excel spreadsheet with our data according to the AAVSO format.

[OldSkyEyes]

I'm also interested in having the right output format to submit to AAVSO.
So we can just upload the text flle on their website. (that is free) (https://www.aavso.org/webobs/file)

Anyone working on this?

The format doesn't seem to be complicated, someone just has to do it.
file specifications: https://www.aavso.org/aavso-extended-file-format

Would be nice if it is an output choice in the Aperture Photometry script. (and not a separate script that imports the exported file again)

The script "C:\Program Files\PixInsight\src\scripts\AdP\AperturePhotometry.js"
of Andres del Pozo, Vicent Peris (OAUV) would need some new export function.
this.WriteTable = function (field, fieldName, snrField)