[Aavso-photometry] Possible new variable? (corrected)

Dave Lane dlane at ap.stmarys.ca
Tue Dec 11 16:32:52 EST 2007


Corrected web links:

http://www.davelane.ca/aro/images/lph058b.gif
http://www.davelane.ca/aro/images/lph058v.gif

--- Dave

Dave Lane wrote:
> I was doing a time series on two stars last night for Gord Sarty and 
> Rick Huziak's campaign and my first choice of check star for the LPH058 
> field seems to be variable. It was imaged in both B and V - see the star 
> labeled "l" at:
>
> http://www.davelane.ca/aro/images/*lph058b.gif
> *http://www.davelane.ca/aro/images/*lph058v.gif
>
> In both filters there is a general brightening trend of about 0.02 in V 
> and 0.03 in B. The airmass increases until the data gap (the meridian 
> flip) in the graph and then decreases towards the end **(ignore the last 
> four points as the airmass was well over 2). **The star has a B-V of 
> about 0.36 and the comparison star about 0.34.
>
> SIMBAD doesn't come up with anything other than identifying it as GSC 
> 00154-00555 and as an A2V. Nothing in the NSV either. Another 
> interesting point is that in the subset of the Henden sequence chosen 
> for the finder chart, this star has the largest reported V error.
>
> Being fairly new to this, is this the kind of thing that should be 
> reported some how or should I continue to observe it or are there just 
> too many unknown variables to bother with?
>
> ... Dave
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