The value of visual observing

I recently gave a talk for an astronomy club, describing the work I do here in the pages of , and more specifically on how visual variable star estimates notify the wider astronomical community of its 2011 outburst. The resulting light curve shows (mostly) visual measures in quiescence and through the early rise in brightness, with CCD observers taking over and capturing the light curve in greater detail. So visual and CCD observers worked together to capture, , the complete light curve of a nova explosion.