Hi Ari,
It’s great to hear about your experience with AAVSOnet. I’m also busy submitting photometry that I’m getting from AAVSOnet. I’ve been focused on T CrB and the SNEWS campaigns.
I watched the video “AAVSONet Proposals – What, Why and How?” by Ken Menzies @MZK and George Silvis @SGEO back in 2021, and realized this is a great way to learn more about photometry when I don’t have my own camera or set-up. It is a great overview of AAVSOnet and how to get started.
It took me a few months to decide what I would focus on with a proposal and taking the Choice Course on VPhot with Ken Menzies made learning how submit observations easy. The emphasis on color transformation of your submissions should be learned by everyone submitting photometry.
Ari, I’d love to see what your DIY set-up looks like and how you put it together. I’m also doing my own set-up now and sometimes its daunting, but once you get the first images coming in, it is very satisfying.
Thanks for taking the time to tell us about your experiences with AAVSOnet.
Andrew