Good morning All, The ZAND star FN Sgr has been generally faint near magnitude 13.5 since declining in 2003 September. It has increased in brightness by 1...
Peter F Williams
pfwilliams@...
Jul 7, 2006 7:30 am
783
Recent visual observations of southern RCB stars: STAR YYYYMMDD(UT) MAG OBSERVER REMARK ANTUX 20060706.437 121 WPX...
Peter F Williams
pfwilliams@...
Jul 7, 2006 7:55 am
784
The ROP star V452 Cas is active: Jul 11.979 15.9C Best rgds, Jeremy Shears Cheshire, UK _________________________________________________________________ Be...
Although its still a difficult object at the moment (low altitude in twilight glow), its worthwhile making a special effort to observe SS Aur as it is ...
EnootnhoJ@...
Jul 15, 2006 9:59 am
790
In the early 1990's I took routine photographs of the Southern sky from Botswana, and on my exposures of the Carina region noted an extremely red star that was...
CD -62 466 is also catalogued as SAO251015. I have photo's illustrating the intense red colour of this star dating from 1986. In March 1999 I made 7 visual...
EnootnhoJ@...
Jul 16, 2006 8:17 am
792
Hi Colin, I have looked at my copy of Atlas Australis and this star is indeed shown as spectral class F. A check of the Simbad web site shows CD-62 466 has a...
Peter F Williams
pfwilliams@...
Jul 16, 2006 9:51 am
793
The unusual RCB star DY Per has begun to fade... Jun 5.0 11.1 Poyner Jly 3.0 11.4 Poyner 10.0 11.3 Poyner 15.0 11.9 G. Comello (vsnet-rcb 673) ...
Unfiltered time series photometry over 2.7hr on July 18 using a 0.35m SCT and SXV-H9 CCD camera shows strong superhumps with amplitude 0.25 mag and period ...
Chi Cyg is having a bright maximum: 22 Jul 2332GMT Eta (2) V (3) FL17 4.4 NE I have monitored every maximum of this star since 1975 and last...
EnootnhoJ@...
Jul 23, 2006 7:27 pm
796
Tom got "bit" by the most common error when observing unfiltered - finding a red star. While unfiltered observations work well for many astronomical projects...
Hello, An observation tonight through broken cloud suggests the RCB star RY Sgr may have commenced to decline. Recent observations show it clearly fainter...
Peter F Williams
pfwilliams@...
Jul 25, 2006 1:39 pm
798
... Hi, Peter, It looks you are right. Specially because the fading from a bright maximum was steeper than normal. I have added my observations to those you...
AAVSO Chat Room http://www.aavso.org/aavso/chat.shtml Boy is this great resource underutilized! Now, the important thing to keep in mind is that this is just...
This interesting note was posted to a vsnet list a couple of days ago, and thought it worth repeating here for those who do not take vsnet mail. Gary ... Gary...
Hi Gary, John Meacham - Bristol Astronomical Society Director of Observations - alerted us to this on Monday. Chi Cygni was observed by both John and myself...
Tonight I made RY Sgr at 6.92 so I wouldn't dare to say that it is going to be a deep minimum... More observations are needed during the days to come. On april...
Hello All, Yes, I agree with Sebastian's observation that the apparent decline of RY Sgr may have stalled. We may now have to wait and see what RY Sgr does in...
Peter F Williams
pfwilliams@...
Jul 29, 2006 12:25 am
804
The SRb carbon star U Cam has brightened considerably this month: Jul 10 0029GMT C(2)V(1)D 8.3 12x50B Jul 18 2318GMT Equal C 8.0...
EnootnhoJ@...
Jul 30, 2006 8:43 pm
805
I've just received a message from Dr. Mark Kidger concerning the next outburst of OJ287. He says that Dr. Mauri Valtonen "has an updated prediction based on a...
Of course the predicted outburst is in 2007, not this year. Forgive my ravings about looking for it in the twilight September sky. I read it as 2007, but my...
Two ROP stars are active: V1316 Cyg Aug 6.090 16.4C (probably a "brief outburst"; monitoring encouraged to see how long it lasts - part of the BAA VSS/AAVSO...
Recent observations of southern RCB stars. ANTUX 20060730.414 121 WPX Maximum APSS 20060809.450 98...
Peter F Williams
pfwilliams@...
Aug 10, 2006 11:47 am
809
The 78th Name-List of Variable Stars with for identifications of 1706 'new' variables was published on 8 August 2006: http://www.konkoly.hu/cgi-bin/IBVS?5721 ...
In a message dated 12/08/2006 03:41:15 GMT Daylight Time, w_renz@... writes: http://www.konkoly.hu/cgi-bin/IBVS?5721 The renaming of the following...
EnootnhoJ@...
Aug 12, 2006 9:13 am
811
The suspected Herbig Ae/Be star NSV 7883 has faded. No observations have been made during the first two weeks of August due to cloudy conditions. However the...
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