Re: SDSS0804+51 = "Lyn" ...also very faint?

From: Joe Patterson <*jop_at_astro.columbia.edu*> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:18:19 -0500 (EST) · jop_at_astro.columbia.edu

>> BTW another star with a strong periodic signal - brighter and also
>> highly pulsed - is SDSS0804+51 = "Lyn".  We'll be doing long campaigns on
>> both.
>
> Downes catalog says this one is about magnitude 17.9.  Ouch. I've glanced at
> some POSS II plates (red and blue)...also looks pretty faint.  I'll make a
> chart for this star, but I think this one will also have to wait until a
> fainter moon.
>

Our observations last week suggested more like 16.7.  Still needs 
destruction of the Moon, but not beyond reason...

joe