From jop at astro.columbia.edu Sun Aug 4 09:38:30 2002 From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson) Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 09:38:30 -0400 (EDT) Subject: (cba:news) stars for august Message-ID: Dear CBAers, Just a month now till the NZ Conference. I look forward to seeing a bunch of you there. V533 Her has proved to be a difficult target - kinda faint, neighbor star, and bedevilled by evening thunderstorms. The main goal, a superhump search, has been accomplished - a garden-variety positive superhump at a period 7.3% over Porb. Very nice detection. There are other things present which need more extensive study (1000 second QPOs, and structure in the superhump's harmonics)... but it seems unlikely we'll get it this year, with all the problems, and with losing 4 minutes per day! So let's drop V533 Her from the menu. Remaining are V1494 Aql, V1432 Aql, and V1223 Sgr. All of these still need a lot of coverage, and will be with us a long time. Fire away! The next bright star on our menu will be LS Peg - northern smallscopers might want to get the early season observations in now (at V~12.4, it's an easy target for all). joe From jop at astro.columbia.edu Mon Aug 26 00:02:57 2002 From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:02:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: (cba:news) stars Message-ID: Dear CBAers, Oops, I'm in transit to NZ now... but I wanted to demote V1223 Sgr altogether, and lower V1494 Aql in the program. It's a swell time for LS Peg and V1432 Aql! More from NZ I hope. joe