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BZ UMa and Var Her 04: Keeping Us Up At Night (Abstract)

Volume 33 number 1 (2005)

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Aaron Price

Abstract

(Abstract only) In 2004 the AAVSO conducted two intensive observing campaigns of peculiar cataclysmic variables. BZ UMa was observed for four nights in outburst in February and again for two nights during quiescence in April. Results (lack of superhumps) do not support its official classification as a UGSU star. Var Her 04 was discovered in late June and observed for about a month. Originally suggested as a rare UGWZ type star, its classification is also in doubt. We present early results from and lessons learned during these two campaigns.