Observation Tool Plug‐ins - AAVSO/VStar GitHub Wiki
Descriptive statistics by series
Description: For each band in the loaded dataset, this plug-in shows mean values for time and magnitude along with standard deviation for magnitude.
Author: David Benn, Maksym Pyatnytskyy
Date of last revision: 09 Jun 2021
Leavitt's Law distance calculator - Documentation
Description: This plugin will compute the absolute magnitude and distance to a Cepheid variable based on the Period-Luminosity relationship. You can input the average apparent magnitude and the period to the equation. Please note that the file for this plug-in is called "PeriodLuminosityDistanceCalculator.jar"
Author: David Benn. Documentation written by Barbara Harris.
Date of last revision: 25 April 2020
Mean time between selections accumulator
Description: This plugin will record the mean JD and magnitude between selections you make on the plot.
Author: David Benn (as requested by Mike Simonsen)
Date of last revision: 4 May 2020
Observers by series
Description: This plugin will allow you to display, for each loaded series, the observer codes of all observers who have contributed observations to that series. To use the plugin, select “Observers by Series...” from the Tool menu.
Author: David Benn and Paul York
Date of last revision: 20 May 2018
VSX Query - Documentation
Description: This plugin will allow you to extract information about a variable from VSX by its name and fill Phase Plot dialog with period and epoch (if applicable). This could be especially useful while analyzing survey data. Also, the plugin provides an "Ephemeris calculator"; the ephemeris can be calculated for any phase (not only for the zero phase).
Author: Maksym Pyatnytskyy
Date of last revision: 17 Sep 2023