Who We Are?

See also: VS-COMPAS: The Project story

The project idea was announced in 2011 by Ivan Sergey, an experienced amateur astronomer with variable stars research as the primary focus. The VS-COMPAS acronym stands for Variable Stars Common Observation Mission in Particular Areas of the Sky. This is an exact match with the project's agenda. The main intention of the VS-COMPAS project is to expand the VSX catalog with new variable stars, variable stars analysis and research.

Since the time VS-COMPAS project started in October 2011, there were more than 1150 stars discovered by combined efforts and own software tools. The project is currently developing by six amateur astronomers who has a passion for a variable stars research.

The tools are developed by Andrey Prokopovich and Ivan Adamin, and equally available to all project participants for free. All data about discovered stars is submitted to the International Variable Star Index (VSX) catalog running by AAVSO.

Another valuable goal the project has is increasing public interest to variable stars science. To make social impact on the subject more meaningful it was decided to start a bi-monthly bulletin for amateur variable stars observers.

Andrey Prokopovich Project Coordinator Grodno, Belarus	Ivan Sergey Molodechno, Belarus ex-member
Ivan Adamin Grodno, Belarus	Alexey Tkachenko Minsk, Belarus