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Monitoring of Mira Variable Stars

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Dale E. Mais

Department of Astronomy, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA

Robert E. Stencel

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver, Denver, CO

David Richards

Aberdeen and District Astronomical Society, United Kingdom

Presented at the 93rd Spring Meeting of the AAVSO, July 23, 2004; received September 7, 2004; revised November 30, 2004; accepted February 24, 2005

Abstract  We have begun intensive V- and R-band CCD monitoring of Mira variable stars since early in 2003. This project was initiated in the hopes of improving the statistics of putative flaring phenomena among these stars. This paper will give an update of the project and describe the strategies being employed.