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There is an article in the newest S&T (The Two Top Miras, by Alan McRobert, October, 2016 issue) that got me thinking...
What if there were a regular column in S&T along the lines of the variable star of the month? Has this been tried before?
Registration is now open for the remaining CHOICE courses to be offered in 2016.
September 5 - 30
CCD Photometry Part I
The Find a Member/Observer search works very well, but seems to be very limiting -- I can search for members or observers near me, which could be a nice way to get together for a local/regional meet & greet, etc...
I am a little confused concerning how to report observations in AAVSO extended format
https://www.aavso.org/aavso-extended-file-format
In this document there are fine examples. In example 2 the CHART for SS CYG is given as
070613
But when I look at the chart for SS CYG, then I find a chart with the designation
X16382L (sequence) X16382M (Chart)
Which one to report?
Yours
Sören Toft, TSCB, Goetheanum, Switzerland
10 degrees around TU cas has lost it's comps
Hi all.
I'm observing this star since June for the second year and now it plays show in the tricolor blue band.
Blue measurements are often higher (0.15 mag) than green ones (nearly constant) and sometimes there is a jump below the corresponding green measurement.
It's very excinting to follow this variable star.
I'm doing DSLR out of focus transformed measurements with a SONY Alpha 2000 and 50mm or 200mm lenses on a Skywatcher StarAdventurer.
CTIA, Tiziano Colombo
Italy
Hello,
I would like to make a visual work using the magnitudes of a variable star. I first had the idea when reading the recent AR Sco article and am attracted to its rapid and strong fluctuation (every two minutes). Unfortunately, the longest set of observations is in the low hundreds and I was hoping for something over a longer period (several days or weeks). Does anyone know of a similar variable star that might also have a longer data set? Thank you!
AstroArtist
Zach Tolan :)
The popular CHOICE course, Variable Star Types and Light Curves, is being offered again and class starts next Monday. There are still seats available if you would like to sign up for this course.
Hi! I just wanted to let you know that Variable Stars for Android is now available in the Play Store -- thanks to all my beta testers for helping me work out some of the issues in the beta version!
Variable Stars is a simple resource to provide a clean interface to access basic information about variable stars that can aid in planning observing sessions or just for general knowledge.
Friends,
A new study presents VLT+ AAVSO observations on AR Sco. A very important work, it will appear at the journal Nature tomorrow (July 28). For now, enjoy a very eloquent press release from the European Southern Observatory's press office:
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1627/?lang
Many thanks to all who took data for this project!
Best wishes - clear skies,
Stella.
