News and Announcements
| 25 January | And Baby Makes... |
Our Assistant Director, Aaron Price, has had a heck of a year! Early in 2010, he was made Assistant Director of the AAVSO. Later that year we celebrated his defending his Ph.D. But something more unusual, at least for an AAVSO staffer, was on the horizon. It would seem to an outside observer, perhaps, that AAVSO staffers are more committed to their work than most. While most of us (but not all) are married, the vast majority of us have no children now. With the single exception of Gloria, those that do have children have grown children. |
| 24 January | AAVSO Special Notice #229 |
Outburst of FS Aurigae |
| 23 January | A volunteer's valuable contribution |
We received some sad news at the AAVSO ten days ago regarding one of the participants in the AAVSO's project to digitize data from the Harvard Annals. Daniel Rupp wrote me to let me know that his son, Andrew Rupp, passed away on January 7, 2011. Along with this news, Mr. Rupp passed along the spreadsheets that Andrew had in progress. All told, Andrew digitized more than 2700 observations for 10 different Mira variables, extending our light curves for these stars backwards in time by nearly eleven years. |
| 14 January | Trivia Leaderboards Added |
We've created leaderboards for the Centennial Trivia Challenge! Check them out to see how people are doing. Don't forget to answer today's question, either! |
| 14 January | AAVSO Special Notice #228 |
Supernova 2011K in anonymous galaxy is Type-Ia pre-maximum |
| 11 January | AAVSO Alert Notice 430 |
Photometry requested of Blazar-type Quasars 3C 273 and 3C 279 |
| 10 January | Twenty Million and Counting! |
Approaching An Important Milestone! |
| 10 January | ejaavso preprint "Searching for Orbital Periods of Supergiant Faast X-ray Transients" by M. Falanga et al. | |
| 10 January | Charts and Sequences Update January 2011 |
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| 07 January | AAVSO Alert Notice 429 |
Photometry requested for three "Vestoid" Near-Earth Objects
January 8, 2011: Dr. Michael David Hicks (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) contacted the AAVSO requesting precision
photometry of three solar system objects in support of NASA's DAWN mission to Vesta. |
| 07 January | AAVSO Newsletter 47 now online |
AAVSO Newsletter for January 2011 |
| 05 January | ejaavso preprint "Studies of "Irregularity" in Pulsating Red Giants. III. by J. R. Percy, E. Terziev | |
| 04 January | Online Chat: Jan. 4 at 4pm |
We will be hosting a Citizen Sky online chat this Tuesday at 4pm eastern (-5UT). Dr. Bob, Brian Kloppenborg, Rebecca, Aaron and other Citizen Sky and AAVSO staff will be on hand. Topics will include updates on epsilon Aurigae, the upcoming AAS meeting, and ideas for research teams. However, it will be a free chat so any AAVSO/Citizen Sky/VSO topic is welcomed. |
| 03 January | AAVSO Special Notice #227 |
Unusual Behavior of FS Aur - Outburst Imminent? January 3, 2011: The campaign to monitor activity of the peculiar cataclysmic variable FS Aurigae, as announced in AAVSO Alert Notice 428 (see also AAVSO Special Notice #226), continues. Principal Investigator Dr. Vitaly Neustroev reports that the campaign is going well, and that he is very appreciative of your observing efforts and contributions. |
| 29 December | Southern 10-Star Tutorial |
Over at Citizen Sky we just published a Southern Hemisphere version of our 10-Star Training Tutorial. It is similar to the original tutorial except that it includes stars and charts for the Southern Hemisphere and is not focused on epsilon Aurigae. |
| 20 December | ejaavso preprint "Anchoring the Universal Distance Scale Via a Wesenheit Template" by Daniel J. Majaess et al. | |
| 20 December | ejaavso preprint "VX Hydrae: Observation of a Sudden Change in a Pulsating Star" by M. Bonnardeau, S. Dvorak, R. Poklar, G. Samolyk | |
| 17 December | ejaavso preprint "The Variable Star HD 173637" by A. U. Landolt | |
| 16 December | 2011 JD Calendar |
The 2011 JD Calendar is now available. |
| 15 December | JAAVSO v38 nr2 is now online! | |
| 15 December | Request Comparison Stars for Variable Star Charts |
[Note: If your variable star has an existing sequence, even if it is only one comparison star, please request assistance via CHET. This page is only for variables that have NO comparison stars. Thank you.] |
| 13 December | ejaavso preprint "The First Historical Standstall of WW Ceti" by M. Simonsen and R. Stubbings | |
| 07 December | Charts and Sequences Update December 2010 |
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| 07 December | AAVSO Centennial Calendar for 2011 |
A Century of Variable Star Observing: 1911-2010
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| 07 December | ejaavso preprint "Recent minima of 144 EB stars" by G. Samolyk |
