HAPPY THANKSGIVING! A warm welcome to all who have signed up to this group. We have 48 observers signed up for the Campaign. So far 10 members have signed up ...
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Iakovos Marios Strikis
jdstrikis
Nov 26, 2009 1:54 pm
Hello all... My name is Iakovos - Marios Strikis , I am 25 years old and I am new to CCD photometry (I used to do visual observing the last 2 years) and I am...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Nov 26, 2009 5:22 pm
Hi JD, Thank you for the links. It looks like you have a very nice equipment set up. Welcome to the Campaign. If you have not done so please vist the Campaign...
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Thomas Karlsson
thomasngab
Nov 26, 2009 7:06 pm
Hi. If one is reporting results to this group, is ther some special format you should prefer? My estimate for 2009-11-25 21:07UT, JD: 2455160.3799, was 3.462V,...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Nov 27, 2009 1:58 am
Hi Thomas, Thanks for your data. That format is excellent. The only suggestion is for the date use a double date, the first date is the day before the night...
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Iakovos Marios Strikis
jdstrikis
Nov 27, 2009 3:55 pm
Hello all I have just finished processing yesterday images of Epsilon Aurigae... So yesterday at 26/Nov/2009 22:00U.T. the brightness was 3.475 (+- 0.002) on...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Nov 27, 2009 5:54 pm
Hi JD, Thanks for your data. I measured V at 3.5041 this morning so we are close. I would rely much more on the instrument data than visual. The eye has a...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Nov 27, 2009 5:58 pm
Hi Thomas, Thanks for your data. Please use the double date for the observation date (24/25 Novermber or 25/26 November). Also is the JD right. Should it be...
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Robert Stencel
coloida@...
Nov 27, 2009 7:08 pm
Jeff, It's excellent to see the additional, international observing reports coming in via yahoogroups. Great! --Dr.Bob To: EpsilonAurigae@yahoogroups.com ...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Nov 28, 2009 12:32 am
The eclipse seems t be pretty much on schedule. Attached is a trial to see how the attachments work here. It is the latest of a composite of observers in the V...
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Thomas
thomasngab
Nov 28, 2009 10:48 am
... You are right the JD in my latest report was wrong and should have been 2455161.3799 as the observation was on the evening 25/26 November. /Thomas...
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colombo_tiziano
Nov 28, 2009 3:48 pm
My name is Tiziano Colombo and I'm from Italy. I'm doing observations since August and my place is Saint Giovanni al Gatano Observatory. Best wishes of good...
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phxjeffx@...
Nov 29, 2009 1:32 am
Welcome to the list Tiziano. For thos who do ot know Tiziano, he has been contributing V and Rc photometric data to the International Campaign on a regular...
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FrankJ12@...
Nov 29, 2009 9:03 am
Hi all - Welcome to the group! Just briefly to introduce myself. My name is Frank J Melillo of Holtsville, New York. I'm doing photoelectric photometry using...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Nov 29, 2009 6:22 pm
For those of you doing spectroscopy, Valerie Desnoux just posted the following: ************************* Hi there I finally updated the user manuals of Visual...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Nov 29, 2009 8:31 pm
Welcome to the list Frank. Jeff Hopkins Phoenix Observatory Phoenix, Arizona Counting Photons www.hposoft.com/Astro/astro.html...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Nov 30, 2009 5:53 pm
If you want to know a Julian date, the AAVSO has a set of Julian Date calendars that can be downloaded as pdf files. See:...
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bkloppenborg2002
bkloppenborg...
Dec 1, 2009 10:09 am
I use the USNO Julian Date Converter for casual lookups, or the C/Fortran version for my reduction software. See: ...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Dec 1, 2009 4:24 pm
The ingress of epsilon Aurigae is proceeding on schedule. While near a full Moon not too far from the star system, I was able to get good photometric data with...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Dec 2, 2009 2:02 am
Des Loughney created a paper for the British Asstronomical Association and has kindly agreed to let me post it for the list. If you are interested in DSLR...
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FrankJ12@...
Dec 2, 2009 6:44 am
In a message dated 12/1/2009 9:03:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, phxjeff@... writes: Des Loughney created a paper for the British Asstronomical...
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Dr.Mukund Kurtadikar
mkurtadikar
Dec 2, 2009 7:25 pm
Hello, Ours is a group of 5-6 teachers doing photoelectric photometry of Variable Stars, using 12" Meade  LX 200 with upgraded SSP 3A with UBVRI filters.We...
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Thomas Karlsson
thomasngab
Dec 2, 2009 7:52 pm
Hi. I got a good value for epsilon Aurigae last night despite the full moon. 2009-12-01/02 JD2455167.2944 3.516V SD: 0.019 Thomas Karlsson Varberg, Sweden...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Dec 2, 2009 7:58 pm
Hello Dr. Kurtadikar, I assume you have the classic LX200. I have circuit diagrams for the GPS, but I think the Classic is different. The capacitor is probably...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Dec 2, 2009 8:17 pm
Hi Thomas, Thanks for the data. That is very close to what most others are getting. Good work. Jeff Hopkins Phoenix Observatory Phoenix, Arizona Counting...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Dec 3, 2009 7:05 pm
As we approach 2nd contact I thought I would run my HPO UBV data through the linear regression programs and see what comes out as 1st and 2nd Contact...
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FrankJ12@...
Dec 3, 2009 7:29 pm
Thanks Jeff! Frank J M ... From: Jeff Hopkins <phxjeff@...> To: EpsilonAurigae@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 1:23 pm Subject: [EpsilonAurigae]...
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FrankJ12@...
Dec 4, 2009 2:23 pm
All - I did some photometry of Epsilon Aurigae on December 4th at 5:00 UT. I came up with an average +3.53 magnitude in V light. Wow! That's sort of a big drop...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Dec 4, 2009 5:22 pm
Hi Frank, Your data is close to mine and others. Last night I got V= 3.5509 0.0080. I think the out-of-eclipse phenomena caused data last week to jump and now...
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Jeff Hopkins
hposoft
Dec 6, 2009 4:29 pm
Bob Stencel writes: Our favorite stars are seen near Mt.Everest in today's APOD: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091205.html Jeff Hopkins Phoenix Observatory ...
