[Aavso-photometry] BZ UMa report

[Aaron Price]

  Hey, all. The BZ UMa light curve looks really good. I especially
like to see that we have many nice long datasets from a few people.
And many of them overlap. This will make it much easier to combine the
data for analysis. The light curve looks like a typical short 4-day BZ
UMa outburst, still no superoutburst.

 I don't find any superhumps after a quick search. And I also don't
find the recurrance of the 3rd day 30-40minute QPOs as before. But a
more thorough search of both will be done later. However, we do detect
the orbital period in the first night's dataset. This hasn't been done
before. The uncertainty in the analysis is large (~5 minutes) so it is
_possible_ that these are superhumps. But I doubt it.  I think we have
the orbital period, which is nice since it is new. It will be fun to
trace its phase and see if it changes before it is lost in the latter
days. One or two of the booming flares BZ UMa is famous for is in
there as well.

 If anyone has any unprocessed datasets, please send them in. I think
we have enough to work on a paper using the last 3 outbursts and the
2-day quiescence campaign we did in April, 2004. For background,
consult our poster here:

            http://www.aavso.org/vstar/posters.shtml

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Aaron