[Aavso-photometry] Var Her 04 Update & New field Variable

[Michael Koppelman]

Anyone got R magnitudes for the comparison stars?

On Jun 26, 2004, at 11:52 PM, Aaron Price wrote:

>
>  I just got back from observing with Mike Mattei and we used Var Her  
> 04 to
> test his new setup. He is a master with tools of any type. He has  
> turned
> his observatory from a storage room with various critters living in it  
> to
> an ideal CCD observing platform. Today he built a "captain's style"  
> desk
> to hold his two computer monitors (one for CCD and one for scope  
> control)
> and two TV monitors (one is hooked up to a live feed from the finder  
> and
> the other to the scope itself). That is just what his did TODAY. You  
> can
> imagine how cool this setup is after his years of work on it.
>
>  I haven't had time to analyse all the data that has come in. I'll  
> make a
> pass tomorrow. It looks like it may be brightening as seen in these two
> graphs:
>
> http://brucegary.net/nova2004/LCV_4625_19z.png
> http://www.aavso.org/cgi-bin/superstar2.pl? 
> objectname=VAR+HER+04&lastdays=2&date1=&date2=2453183.6945&avgbin=&butt 
> on_name=Please+Wait...&bad=on&userpepb=on&userpepr=on&userpeph=on&userp 
> epj=on&obscolor=1&evalcolor=7&ftcolor=0&type=points&who=SFI&whocolor=3& 
> whoftcolor=7&width=500&height=375&eval=yes&grid=off&magbottom=&magtop=
>
>  I've updated the light curves on our web page here:
> http://aavso.org/news/her04.shtml
>
>  Lew Cook (COO) reports a possible variable in the field. It is the  
> 13ish
> star 2.2 arc minutes North of Var Her 04. Do not use this as a check  
> star!
> In fact, if you see variation in your own data submit it to the AAVSO  
> as:
>
> 9999+99 VAR HER S
>
> If it turns out to be a real variable maybe we'll publish it as an IBVS
> announcement. It would be important for the pros to know this as some  
> of
> them may be using it for calibration too. He supplied an annotated  
> image
> of it from the AAVSO chart. It can be viewed here:
>  http://www.aavso.org/news/varhers.gif
>
>  Wierd humping and bumping of some type is still going on in this star.
> This may end up being a very peculiar variable indeed! Please observe  
> it
> as much as possible this weekend! Nice long runs with good precision
> equals nice juicy data. Good luck!!!!
>
> Aaron
>
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