[Aavso-photometry] Var Her 04 Update

[James Bedient]

DO you suppose if we emailed Samus he would cut loose with an official
designation and we could do away with the awkward "Var Her 04" construct?
He always seems to tag classical novae within a couple of days, why not this
guy as well?

Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Price" <aaronp at onceler.org>
To: <aavso-photometry at aavso.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 5:00 AM
Subject: [Aavso-photometry] Var Her 04 Update


>
>  It looks like Var Her 04 is nice and steady now. Good CCDV coverage by
> Robert James (JM) reveals a steady period around V=16 for this week.
>  Thursday I visited the Harvard College Observatory Plate Stacks with
> Matthew Templeton and together we looked through 164 plates of the RH
> series from 1929-1950. We discovered four previous outbursts and one more
> possible outburst (detection was questionable)! This is looking more and
> more like a UGSU star.
>  With that data, and new astrometry from Arne, we submitted an
> announcement to CBAT which will hopefully be published as an IAUC soon.
> I'll post it here when it does.
>   *** Please continue to observe! ***
>   We don't need time series data anymore, but very precise observations in
> V are needed to monitor it every night to see if it begisn to fade again.
> So please add it to the top of your observing program and observe it once
> per night you spend under the stars. We need to set a quiescence level for
> the star and that requires consistent monitoring for a while. Please keep
> an eye on it!
>
> Aaron
>
>
>
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