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A global network of small telescopes dedicated to photometry of cataclysmic variables.

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Current CBA News...

  • xmmu J1151-62
  • SS UMi, YY Dra, YY Sex
  • MASTER OT J094759.83+061044.4 - bright UGSU candidate, and other May stars
  • xmm1151-62, mainly
  • XMMU J115113.3-623730
  • (cba:chat) Keeping watch on the DQ Hers
  • status of dq hers right now
  • t pyx and TCP1537-24, mainly
  • TCP1537-24 again
  • GR Ori struts its stuff...
  • Recent News
  • website currently undergoing maintenance

Current CBA Data...

  • NY Ser (432.68523-432.98650) (Jim Jones)
  • Correction - V1223 Sgr data titled JD 439 is actually JD 432 - date in file is correct (Gordon Myers)
  • V1223 Sgr - JD 433.06 - 433.17 (Gordon Myers)
  • V1223 Sgr - JD 439.09 - 439.22 (Gordon Myers)
  • nr tra, may 18 (Berto Monard)
  • nr tra, may 17 (Berto Monard)
  • ex hya, may 18 (Berto Monard)
  • ex hya, may 17 (Berto Monard)
  • v1223 sgr, may 18-19 (Berto Monard)
  • IGR J16547-1916 (JD 6430.68 - 6430.81) (Shawn Dvorak)
  • Recent Data
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V803 Centauri - April 1997 - CBA

This is a light curve of V803 Cen, as synthesized from observations in South Africa (J. Patterson), Chile (J. Kemp), New Zealand (S. Walker), and Australia (P. McGee in Adelaide and G. Garradd in Loomberah). The period is 23.7±0.2 hr. The true speed demon among the dwarf novae!