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The blazar S50716+71 is extremely active at the moment. This morning (Jan 17.01)it was at magnitude 12.3, compared to 13.4 on Jan 14.89. Might be worth making...
Herewith latest estimate of S5 0716+71: 17 Jan 2004 0834GMAT 3(1)V(5)5 12.6 C8 V Sequence used was Villata et al., 1998, A&AS 130, 305. John Toone...
John Toone
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Jan 18, 2004 11:42 am
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Nice to see it so bright - so I wasn't seeing things :-) I think that during this active period, observations should be made hourly (or more frequent if...
I observed this star continuously (bar seasonal gaps) from 1981 to 1987 and recorded an extreme range of 2.5 - 3.0 from 80 observations using Alpha Peg (2.5)...
John Toone
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Jan 18, 2004 12:39 pm
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SU Tau is recovering from a deep minimum. Selected recent observations follow: 20 Dec 2003 1217GMAT <P <16.0 C14 11 Jan 2004 0858GMAT...
John Toone
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Jan 18, 2004 12:39 pm
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The RCB star DY Per is fading... Jan 9.03 UT 10.9 to 11.7 by Jan 16.93 UT Clear skies, Gary ... Gary Poyner garypoyner@... gp@... ...
Hi Folks, Peter Gill <pbj.gill@...> has some books for sale. Please contact Peter if you are interested. Cheers, Roger PS Sorry if this is a bit off...
Apologies for submitting a test message - just want to check I've set this up correctly. Might as well announce the birth of my baby daughter Alice Ruth while...
Is it anyone how have a formula for Excel, for to do a Phase diagrams? The aavso software dont run any well on my PC, and I dont like DOS-software. Regards ...
Hans, There is a program called AVE which I use. It's windows based. The data is entered in two columns - JD and magnitude. If you would like a copy, mail my...
This sounds really interesting - I haven't heard of anyone doing photometry with a web-camera before. Any chance you might write up how you have modified the...
Karen Holland
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Jan 22, 2004 10:21 pm
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Sure ,doing that tomorrow, now warming up after 3 hours in -21d Celsius. h-g ... From: Karen Holland To: baavss-alert@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January...
Excellent - thanks Karen ... From: HG LINDBERG To: baavss-alert@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:22 PM Subject: Re: [baavss-alert] test Sure...
Karen Holland
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Jan 22, 2004 11:25 pm
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Mike Simonsen has detected an outburst of this IP on Jan 23.229 at 14.5. Recent results from Kyoto have it at approx. 11.5. I had it slightly brighter than...
How typical to be clouded out at the moment. I've been watching DO Dra for some time now and have only seen it twice - at mag 15.2 on 25/7/03 and at 14.9 on...
Hi all, Just catching up on the discussions here. A few notes on recent activity. We are working on a sequence for SU Tau and I have a reliable CCD measure...
Message text written by INTERNET:baavss-alert@yahoogroups.com ... where we left off the last time. Whose turn is it to buy?< Rod Stubbings, isn't it? Glad you...
Is DO Dra an eclipser and is there anyone with access to an ephemeris (Kato was sending them out for IP Peg even recently but I still don't understand quite...
DO Dra isn't an eclipser as far as I know - at least I've not seen it published anywhere that it is, and certainly observations from previous outbursts do not...
SS Vir is very faint again a year after its previous record faint spell: 23 Jan 2004 1826GMAT Equal K 10.4 C8 The GCVS gives a range of 6.0 - 9.6...
John Toone
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Jan 24, 2004 9:17 pm
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Patrick Chevalley , are going to do a option for automatically phase diagram in the Software VAROBS. When you write in your observation (you can select...
Anyone - especially Gary: Is this group strictly for BAAVSS stars only or all VS in general. We'll possibly get into a mess policing such a thing - but do we ...
The general idea is to pass on interesting information to BAAVSS observers on ANY interesting variable star information. We don't want to limit this to...
Hi Folks, I feel the group should be open to _anything_ remotely concerned with variable stars full stop. BAAVSS stars should take priority(!) but if you...
I secured the following observation of XY Lyr this morning: 24 Jan 2004 1814GMAT G(2)Z(1)V 6.7 12X50B I have not seen it fainter than Z since 9 Aug...
John Toone
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Jan 25, 2004 3:43 pm
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... Done (hopefully!) ... Pity. This is the brightest level this object has reached in five years. It would have been nice to see what photometry might have...
Gary ... Sounds like it's worth following - gis a clue where to find a chart for this. Regards Chris J...
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Jan 25, 2004 6:29 pm
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Hi Folks, Although probably not of interest to most, John Toone's message of XY Lyr =6.7 is very unusual. In the 10+ years I've followed it, its range has been...