[Aavso-photometry] HMXB Campaign is running once again

[Richard Huziak]

Hey - clear skies once again!  2nd night now actually running on the DAO 
1.85m scope in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Doing a spectrum of LPH115 at this minute and will work my way through 
the list.  If you have a spare photometer not doing much tonite, please 
see my instructions from last night's email, and help us out!  Shawn 
Dvorak is on LPH034 right now.  All others are up for grabs for 
all-night time-series.  If you can't spare long time-series, then just 
get me 5 quick consecutive hits on all the HMXBs you can offer me tonite 
- would be very much appreciated so I can correlate my spectra with 
orbital phase (that we are looking for).

Shawn discovered a new var in field LPH057  2 nights ago - GSC 1875-1544 
now VSX 055553.3+285050 - a new dSct ~0.055d and 12.43 - 12.50V.  
Congrats!  More new stars for all of you in these fields, plus the 
contribution to helping solve the orbital mysteries of the HMXBs.  Some 
new vars - mostly still uncharacterized are within these fields and they 
need data too.  See the attached notes on Gord's charts for details.  
I've listed all known and suspected vars there.

Remember - amplitudes are low - so expose upward to saturation, and have 
fun!  Jump onto the discussion group if you can if you are HMXB imaging.

Thanks,

rick HUZ

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Richard Huziak
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Slogging it out at the DAO
Victoria BC
Need a constant clear-sky dance, please!
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