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AAVSO Bulletin

The AAVSO Bulletin: Predicted Dates of Maxima and Minima of Long Period Variables was a long-running publication of the AAVSO. It gave predictions of dates of maxima and minima for hundreds of long period variables (Miras and semiregulars) in the AAVSO program, and was intended to be an observing guide and planning tool for all observers of LPV stars, amateur and professional alike.

AAVSO Bulletin 73 for 2010 00 hr

AAVSO BULLETIN 73 FOR 2010  - 00 HOUR

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Bulletin 73 was NOT prepared in the same way as in the past. 
READ THE INTRODUCTION before you use the Bulletin; contact AAVSO Headquarters for more precise dates for research.

# - needs more observations
& - needs more observations urgently
@ - needs more observations very urgently
% - has fair to excellent photometric data but needs visual observations

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AAVSO Maxima and Minima of Long Period Variables, 1900-2008

Elizabeth O. Waagen, Janet A. Mattei, and Matthew R. Templeton

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Introduction

Long-term observations of long period variable stars are essential to the determination of period, change in period, change in behavior resulting from mass loss and/or evolution, mode of pulsation (fundamental or overtone), internal structure, and phase at specific times for these stars.