observing campaign

Alert Notice 339: Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Cataclysmic Variable Survey AND Preliminary NGC 6811 Deep and Wide Field Campaign Announcement

July 6, 2006

1. FAR ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPIC EXPLORER (FUSE) CATACLYSMIC VARIABLE SURVEY

Dr. Patrick Godon (Villanova University) has requested help for a campaign to observe cataclysmic variables with the orbiting FUSE observatory. The goals of these observations are to help schedule the FUSE observing time and to obtain time series optical data simultaneously with the FUSE observations for correlation of the optical and ultraviolet data.

Alert Notice 341: NGC 6811 Deep and Wide Field Campaign

September 4, 2006: The AAVSO/CWST NGC 6811 Deep and Wide Field Campaign has begun. The Case-Western Schmidt Telescope (CWST) at Kitt Peak began observing the field on the evening of Sep. 1, 2006. This campaign is being coordinated with Dr. Steve Howell (NOAO). Background information and the scientific justification is available in AAVSO Alert Notice 339 located at this URL:

Alert Notice 351: Campaign for a New Eclipsing Cepheid

June 8, 2007

Name:
TYC 1031 01262 1
ASAS 182611+1212.6
1821+12B (Harvard Designation)
ASAS182612 (AAVSO name)

Discovered by:
Pojmanski, G., Pilecki, B., Szczygiel, D. 2005, AcA 55, 275
and
Antipin, S.V., Sokolovsky, K. V. and Ignatieva, T. I. 2007, astro-ph/0705.0605

Position (from Sonoita Research Observatory, UCAC2):
18:26:11.50 +12:12:35.0 (+/- 100mas)

Alert Notice 367: Monitoring of the Recurrent Nova U Scorpii

January 22, 2008: Dr. Bradley E. Schaefer (Louisiana State University) requests increased monitoring of the recurrent nova U Scorpii (AAVSO 1616-17) over the next 24 months. Observers are asked to add U Sco to their regular observing program and to monitor the star in advance of an outburst predicted to occur around 2009.3 +/- 1.0 year.