From jop at astro.columbia.edu Fri Nov 7 17:37:08 2003 From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:37:08 -0500 (EST) Subject: (cba:news) UV Per in superoutburst Message-ID: Dear CBAers, Arto Oksanen has just reported the appearance of superhumps in UV Per. We've never caught 'em, the season is propitious, and at 12.0 the star is plenty well equipped to survive the travail. Fire away! Then relaxen und watchen das eclipse. joe From jop at astro.columbia.edu Sat Nov 15 08:04:45 2003 From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:04:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: (cba:news) Captain Bob Fried Message-ID: Dear CBAers, It's with terrible sadness that I write to inform you of Bob Fried's death in a plane crash yesterday. I received the news from Arne Henden a few hours ago. Bob flew for Delta Airlines for many years before retirement, and since then has been in a volunteer air corps, flying needy patients in his plane around the Southwest to receive medical treatment. He flew to very remote places, without any regular air service... and on a trip yesterday, his plane crashed. An emergency call was received from the plane, but the crash site was very remote and medics arrived too late. Bob was a tremendously prolific astronomer. The ADS lists 117 publications, and he contributed significantly to another 50-100. He was a cornerstone of the CBA, but he collaborated with many dozens of other astronomers, as the author lists show. In the U.S. amateur astronomy community, I think he contributed more to the world of published research than anyone in the last 40 years. He was also a charismatic teacher. Throughout the 90s, I brought groups of students from New York on trips to the Southwest, with long stays at Braeside Observatory. Meeting up with Bob's energy and mischievousness, that's what many of them remember most from those trips. (Not counting the incredible beauty of northern Arizona and his observatory amid the pine forest.) He later received grants from the National Science Foundation to mentor high-school and college students solo. I'm sure he was the only amateur astronomer, and maybe the only astronomer period, to receive such awards outside the aegis of an organization. Many CBAers knew Bob too. His observatory was a popular spot to visit, and all of us who attended CBA's only actual meetings (in North Carolina and Toronto) remember him well. Certainly me; I think he roomed with me both times. I had twenty years on him... but every night he was still pulsing with energy when I was done for the day. Jonathan had several observing runs with him at Braeside; perhaps he could keep up with Cap'n Bob a little better, since Jonathan has twenty-seven years on me. I only knew the few details about the accident, second-hand from Arne. I hope to learn some more. But I felt so much grief, I needed to write something right away. If you'd like to share any of your memories of Bob, I'd be very happy to receive them. joe From jop at astro.columbia.edu Sat Nov 15 18:48:51 2003 From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:48:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: (cba:news) Robert Fried (fwd) Message-ID: Here are some more communications, relayed by Claudio Veliz. >Subject: FW: [IOTAoccultations] Robert Fried > >I had heard this plane crash story on the news, but did not learn who the >pilot was until this note from Derald. > >Bob Fried hosted a photometry meeting in Flagstaff some years ago, when he >had his residence and Braeside Observatory up on Mars Hill, behind Lowell >Observatory. Some time later, Bob and I and other members of the Saguaro >Astronomy Club cooperated on video recording of a bright star occultation, >visible from his observatory; the interview with Bob was shown on local TV >in Flagstaff. He actively campaigned for dark sky lighting reform in >Flagstaff. Later, following a divorce, he moved and built a large new home >and separate observatory house and three-story observatory tower just off >the road to the U.S. Naval Observatory, west of Flagstaff. More recently, >he and his second wife Marian donated the Braeside Observatory to Arizona >State University, and he spent the past couple of years getting it set up >for remote operation. The Braeside 16-inch Cassegrain reflector is fork >mounted, with full computer control (one of the first telescopes to be so >equipped), with a multi-filter photometer head, all of his own design and >construction. For many years, Fried sponsored a summer student at the >observatory, and did photometry on variable stars and cataclysmic variables, >participating in the Center for Backyard Astrophysics (CBA) programs. Fried >originally did cooled-emulsion astrophotography with the 16 inch scope in >the Atlanta, GA area (1960s and 70s), and was elected President of the >Astronomical League two times. He later moved to Denver, then to Flagstaff. >Captain Fried retired as an L1011 Instructor Pilot with Delta Airlines. > >Here are some URLs with more information: >http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/observatory.html >http://braeside.la.asu.edu/telescope.asp >http://clasdean.la.asu.edu/CLASNews/Spring2000/pdfs/pg3.pdf >http://www.flagstaff.k12.az.us/flagstaff_high/Departments/Science/braeside.h >tml >http://www.flagstaff.k12.az.us/board/documents/press%20releases/prior%20rele >ases/FHS-Braeside%20Observatory%20Dedication%20News%20Release.pdf >Center for Backyard Astrophysics Network >https://cbastro.org/network/ > >Here is the local news report on the crash in Black Canyon City, from the >Friday, November 14, 2003 Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), which does not >identify the pilot: >http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1114azroundup14.html > >Arizona news briefs >Nov. 14, 2003 12:00 AM >Pilot dies in plane crash near Black Canyon City >YAVAPAI COUNTY - One man was killed Thursday morning when his fixed-wing >aircraft crashed in a remote area southeast of Black Canyon City. >The pilot, who was not immediately identified, apparently had sent out a >distress call, said Susan Quayle, a spokeswoman for the Yavapai County >Sheriff's Office. >A pilot with the state Department of Public Safety located the plane in >Block Creek Canyon about 10:40 a.m., DPS Officer Steve Volden said. A >sheriff's deputy from Yavapai County and a DPS paramedic were dropped off >about 30 minutes later and had to hike to the wreckage. >Quayle said details about the pilot and his flight plan were not immediately >available. > > >Gene Lucas >(17250) > >-----Original Message----- >From: derald_nye [mailto:ddnye at attglobal.net] >Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 3:19 PM >To: IOTAoccultations at yahoogroups.com >Subject: [IOTAoccultations] Robert Fried > > >Sad news to report. Robert E. Fried was killed in >a plane crash Thursday. He was flying alone from >Flagstaff to Phoenix and crashed near Black Canyon. >I learned of this on the noon news here in Tucson >and verified it with a friend at Lowell Observatory. >I do not know any of the details. > >Derald Nye > From jop at astro.columbia.edu Sat Nov 15 19:03:50 2003 From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:03:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: (cba:news) memories of bob Message-ID: <200311160003.hAG03oA13490@fidelio.phys.columbia.edu> Dear Joe, Thank you for informing us about Bob. I was sorry to hear the news. My father Vern Campbell was closely associated with Bob when we lived near Atlanta, GA and Bob was still flying for Delta. My current 16" reflector is the design creation of Dad, who was an avionics engineer at Lockheed Aircraft, and Bob Fried. In particular, Bob loaned us his wood pattern that was used to make the casting for our fork mount. This relationship between Dad & Bob occurred during the early to mid 1970's, not long after Bob first completed his own 16" and had it operational in a dome on top of his house outside Atlanta. Dad cleaned up & repaired Bob's wood pattern and we took it to a local foundry that pressed it into hot sand and poured the aluminum fork arms from the mold. Bob always marveled at Dad's design modifications because following the installation of our fork and drive system patterned from Bob's, the similarity to Bob's telescope ended. My father went with the Newtonian optical pattern and designed a rotating tube saddle on ball bearings to allow our scope's focus easy access to all areas of the sky. Later on, Bob moved to Boulder, CO where we visited him following the 1977 Astronomical League Convention where he was the presiding president of that organization that year. The site that he and Marjo had picked out to build their home was picturesque but not necessarily conducive for astronomy. I remember the stories he told about huddling in the corner of the house one winter night while the 100-mile per hour winds outside rushed down the Continental Divide. We suggested Flagstaff AZ would be a better retirement location, and not long afterwards, he relocated there. I relocated to the Ozark Mtns of northern Arkansas in 1995 and never made it out to Arizona to see Bob, or his third location for Braeside Observatory. In summary, while I was a young man back in Atlanta, Bob Fried and Howard Landis also introduced us to photometry of variable stars, and if it hadn't been for my dad & Bob's collaboration, and Bob's willingness to extend to us his help and mentorship, we might have taken up a different hobby altogether! Respectfully submitted, TUT Campbell Joe, This is terrible news. I feel so sad ... actually, it's hard to express this type of feelings in a language that is not one's native. Bob has been an incredible mentor and source of inspiration to all of us, amateur-photometrists, and it always was a pleasure receiving an email from him. I think we all silently we're admiring Bob's energy - taking into account his age - and he definitely was an inspiration to myself, demonstrating that amateur astronomy could be so much of enjoyment after retirement. I have met Bob in person on 2 occasions : the first time during the AAS meeting in Winston-Salem (where we spent a couple of days together with a number of CBA'ers - still one of my best astronomy experiences ever), and the second time at Bob's home in Flagstaff, to co-observe the Leonids 2002. Actually, Bob flew his Cessna to Phoenix to pick me up at the airport, and fly to Flagstaff. I listened for many hours to Bob's stories about his life as a pilot, about his construction of Braeside observatory, and he and his wife Marian were great hosts. This is such a loss ... Tonny From jop at astro.columbia.edu Sun Nov 16 07:04:16 2003 From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 07:04:16 -0500 (EST) Subject: (cba:news) memories of bob (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 07:13:15 +1100 From: bd_heathcote To: Joe Patterson , cba-news at cbastro.org Subject: Re: (cba:news) memories of bob Sadly I never met Robert Fried, so I can't contribute anything personal about him ... except to say that indirectly he had a major impact on my astronomical development. Stephen J. O'Meara's excellent S&T article (June 99, pp94-98) "The Lord of Braeside" was (and still is) inspirational and a major factor in kindling my interest in CCD photometry. Bernard Heathcote Tardis Observatory Mia Mia, Victoria Australia From jop at astro.columbia.edu Sun Nov 16 07:05:32 2003 From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 07:05:32 -0500 (EST) Subject: (cba:news) memories of bob (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:49:41 -0800 (PST) From: Lew Cook To: Joe Patterson , cba-news at cbastro.org Subject: Re: (cba:news) memories of bob This is a surprise and shock. Bob was an inspiration to me, and was a leader in the implementation of remote controlled telescopes. He was a gracious host for a visit Donna and I had at Braeside Observatory. His sense of humor appeared at unexpected times. The computer command to open the observatory shutter at Braeside is accompanied by a sound bite from the movie 2001 - "Open the pod bay doors, Hal!" I laughed when I heard that and think of it often still. We have suffered an enormous loss. Lew From jop at astro.columbia.edu Sun Nov 16 07:06:21 2003 From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 07:06:21 -0500 (EST) Subject: (cba:news) Captain Bob Fried (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 07:03:02 +0000 From: gemerson at att.net To: Joe Patterson Subject: Captain Bob Fried Dear Joe, What sad news about Bob Fried. I have known him since about 1974 when he built his first Braeside Observatory on Flagstaff mountain high above Boulder, Colorado. For a while we worked together at the University of Colorado but he was far too sharp and energetic for the stagnate minds of the astronomy department there, so he left after a few months to go off on his own again. We have kept in touch via E-mail and telephone since he left Boulder. I shall miss him very much. What a loss. Gary Emerson From jop at astro.columbia.edu Tue Nov 18 05:42:45 2003 From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 05:42:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: (cba:news) Captain Bob Fried (fwd) Message-ID: Here are some memories of Bob from Orv, who had a longer acquaintance than most of us were privileged to have. The blind-pilot incident is quintessential Bob! I understand that a memorial service will be held at the Lowell Observatory visitor center on November 25 (3 p.m.) Terry Oswalt also writes to say that he'll hold space for an obituary/article in IAPPP. I'll take a crack at that one. I think Bob Fried is very well known to readers of that journal. joe ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:54:58 -0600 From: Orville Brettman To: Joe Patterson Subject: Re: (cba:news) Captain Bob Fried It was the winter of 1974, January the 12th to be exact, and my observing log of almost 40 years recounts how it was that I came to be taking Schmidt camera photos of comet 1973f (Kohoutek) at the Modine Benstead Observatory west of Racine Wisconsin . Bob Fried was the honcho of a project sponsored by the Astronomical League to photograph the comet through various wratten filter combinations in order to attempt to detect variations in the light output as caused by cyanogens. I remember being impressed with his very concise way of organization and his uncompromising dedication to fine detail. As I recall the project brought no great scientific breakthroughs to the world and we didn't prove the building blocks of life existed on that particular comet, but Bob and the team gave it their best shot. I did however become fast friends with a really wonderful airline captain. Bob became increasing active in the affairs of the Astronomical League, and was soon elected its President, while I represented my region of the United States on the council of the League, and supported Bob's efforts to turn the League into something more closely resembling a scientific society rather than the 'meet, eat, and greet' group which many at the time thought it had become. Bob's efforts were thwarted through the politics for which the League remains well known to this day, and he redirected his efforts into photoelectric photometry using a photometer of his own design named 'Gort 1'. It was a 1P21 device similar in construction to many others of its day save that Bob made each and every part himself with a great deal of advice from Ed Mannery as I recall. As the 70's drew to a close, Bob and I and others doing photometry at the time found ourselves drawn together by Doug Hall of Vanderbilt into a lose knit group of observers forming what latter evolved into the IAPPP. Bob was a frequent speaker at the early meetings of the IAPPP and co-author on many of the papers produced by this very prolific group. All during this time Bob was working his way up the food chain at Delta Airlines, and one very outstanding story comes to mind as I write this concerning his many adventures with the airlines. It seems that there was a side to our friend Bob which was not often seen, and this involved his absolutely keen sense of humor. One day while passengers were boarding on an aircraft which Bob was piloting he took it upon himself to enter by the rear door of the plane after it was about one half full wearing his uniform of course and his pilot cap set at a jaunty angle and a pair of very dark sun glasses and using a walking stick of the type carried by those with very impaired vision and tapped his way to the front of the plane. As I recall he told me they put him on the beach for three days for that little lighthearted excursion. When he first told me the story I laughed so hard I cried, but later heard the same story from another pilot friend from Delta who maintained that Bob gained international fame amongst the pilots of Delta for that stunt. It was in October of 1981 that my collaboration with Bob culminated with the co discovery of the variability of the quadruple system HR 5 (ADS 61). He graciously made his observatory available for confirmation observations, and Bill DuVall and I became his house guest for four memorable nights. While his guest he introduced us to several of his cohorts at Lowell and of course they offered a tour and so a very fine and productive time was had by all. The years slipped by, and my memories of Bob's homes in Boulder and Flagstaff which I had visited dimmed. I saw less and less of him as I still attended the Astronomical League meetings which Bob did not. Then in the deep of winter January 2002 I called my old friend Bob to let him know I'd be coming through Flagstaff on my way to Winer Observatory in Sonoita Arizona for a robotic telescope installation. It was as if no time had passed, and he insisted my traveling companion and I spend the day with him and have lunch and a tour of the fourth incarnation of his Braeside observatory. What a treat it was indeed to see Bob again. First off he had lost some weight and I learned of his heart problems and how he had beaten them, but the observatory was transformed and only the control desk and the telescope tube itself seemed familiar after the many years since the early 80's. Clearly Bob had worked tirelessly as was his nature for all these many years. For all the science that surrounded the endeavor, I must say that the Star Trek sound clips that accompanied computerized telescope commands just about knocked me out. Clearly his sense of humor was undiminished by the years. We spoke much that day of flying as I have been private pilot for 20 years and had the utmost respect for Bob's unselfish use of his airplane for the benefit of those less fortunate. In fact Bob's biggest complaint about his heart problems was that it not so much pained him as it kept him from flying for a time. I'm going to miss him as I'm sure we all will, but I have 30 years of very warm memories of a genuinely wonderful human being and fine and able astronomer as well as an ace pilot, and I count myself lucky for each and every one of them. I've enclosed a photo taken of Bob on my last visit to Braeside. Orville H. Brettman Past President, Astronomical League CBA - Huntley Illinois, USA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Bob.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 99166 bytes Desc: URL: From jop at astro.columbia.edu Sat Nov 22 06:17:36 2003 From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson) Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 06:17:36 -0500 (EST) Subject: (cba:news) Back to the poles! Message-ID: Dear CBAers, UV Per has run its course, and we have really great coverage of this outburst, right from the beginning. Time to move on. I'll be happy to send all the spliced data to any of the contributors. Let's get back to the novalikes! We had two far-northern novalikes that we just started the season on - HS0455+83 and RX0625+73. These are very well placed (OK, admittedly they're practically always well placed... but still). Pick out one that's well-suited to you, and fire away with many happy long nights. And in the south, same story. AH Men is the big prize. Initial coverage from Jennie McCormick, Grant Christie, and Bill Allen show the star at its best, with negative superhumps and a low-frequency "nodal" signal (at ~4 days). The star is bright, the power spectra are fascinating, the nights are warm (I imagine)... a formula for a good campaign! Do some people have problems with these polar locations?... either because of their mountings, or local obstructions? Let me know, and I'll be more declination-diverse in target selection. Right away... I just wanted to get a lot of attention redirected to our (hoped-for) friends at the poles. And that means EF Tuc bows out. We have a probable orbital period of 3.5 hours, based mainly on Bob Rea's work. But it's done for the year, and moves into the analysis stage. joe From jop at astro.columbia.edu Mon Nov 24 10:58:16 2003 From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:58:16 -0500 (EST) Subject: (cba:news) TV Col and RX2309+21 Message-ID: Dear CBAers, I left out two stars from the last message. One is TV Col, a medium-famous DQ Her star with a whole messa periods. At 0529-33 it's a distinctly southern target... and absolutely the top southern priority for November 28-Dec 5. I surely hope our redoubtable forces in NZ, AU, and RSA rise to the occasion! But it would be AWFULLY NICE to finesse some North American observations too; though they'll be very brief, they'll help fill that long, long gap between South Africa heading westward to New Zealand. (Unfortunately we still have no regular CBA correspondent in South America.) The reason for the fuss is the simultaneous X-ray observation of RXTE. Koji Mukai forwards the exact schedule of these observations, which I present below. The exact times are important, but the larger purpose of the whole program is to study the periodic signals in this star - one at 4 days, several near the 5-hour orbital period, and one at 32 minutes. To separate and study all the complexities (esp. near Porb), we need a very long optical time series - we're likely to stay with it through the end of January. We want to start as soon as possible (right now!), so as to define the phase of the periodic signals as accurately as possible during the week of X-ray observation. So train your firepower on this star! Watch for its unwanted companion, however; depending on your telescope drive and reduction methods, this could be a problem. I believe that most people will not be much troubled with this, though. There's a northern star to promote, too. That's RX2309+21, known as "Peg" in CVcat. Not much is known about this star, but it seems to have a periodic wave... and recent literature shows some claims straight from The Twilight Zone... so it's an attractive target for a period-finding campaign in the evening sky. Catch the finale of the President's Cup (that's golf, folks) yesterday? It was *almost* unique in the annals of sport (changing the rules during the competition), but *really* unique in that the chaos and acrimony accompanying it was televised live from a camera just a few feet away, and then followed 20 minutes later by public statements praising the decision and announcing that everyone supported it - even though every single viewer (millions all over the world!) knew it to be a lie. Personally I thought it was a decision of great wisdom. Over the preceding three hours I had watched TV interviews with the winning Americans as they came off the course. They seemed in need of grief counselling - and that was the WINNERS (they didn't interview the losers). I can only imagine how the team captains (Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player) must have felt about it. But most of all, I was fascinated at being given the opportunity to see directly how public relations can operate so quickly on a set of facts and pronounce it to be something utterly different from what every single viewer knew it to be. joe Here's the TV Col RXTE observation schedule: >Day 333 is NOV 29 (UT). >GOODTIME: 06:18:00 (312704284) to 07:21:00 (312708064) > 07:52:00 (312709924) to 08:55:00 (312713704) >TOTAL_GT: 7.56 ksec >Day 333 is NOV 29 (UT). >GOODTIME: 09:27:00 (312715624) to 10:29:00 (312719344) > 11:02:00 (312721324) to 12:05:00 (312725104) > 12:37:00 (312727024) to 13:39:00 (312730744) > 14:17:00 (312733024) to 15:14:00 (312736444) > 15:55:00 (312738904) to 16:49:00 (312742144) > 17:34:00 (312744844) to 18:19:00 (312747544) >TOTAL_GT: 20.58 ksec >Day 334 is NOV 30 (UT). >GOODTIME: 01:36:00 (312773764) to 02:17:00 (312776224) > 02:48:00 (312778084) to 03:51:00 (312781864) > 04:22:00 (312783724) to 05:26:00 (312787564) >TOTAL_GT: 10.08 ksec >Day 334 is NOV 30 (UT). >GOODTIME: 05:57:00 (312789424) to 07:01:00 (312793264) > 07:31:00 (312795064) to 08:35:00 (312798904) > 09:06:00 (312800764) to 10:06:00 (312804364) > 10:41:00 (312806464) to 11:42:00 (312810124) >TOTAL_GT: 14.94 ksec >Day 334 is NOV 30 (UT). >GOODTIME: 23:42:00 (312853324) to 00:22:00 (312855724) >TOTAL_GT: 2.4 ksec >Day 335 is DEC 1 (UT). >GOODTIME: 00:52:00 (312857524) to 00:58:00 (312857884) > 01:12:00 (312858724) to 01:56:00 (312861364) > 02:27:00 (312863224) to 03:31:00 (312867064) > 04:01:00 (312868864) to 05:06:00 (312872764) > 05:36:00 (312874564) to 06:40:00 (312878404) > 07:11:00 (312880264) to 08:15:00 (312884104) >TOTAL_GT: 18.42 ksec >Day 335 is DEC 1 (UT). >GOODTIME: 08:45:00 (312885904) to 09:43:00 (312889384) > 10:20:00 (312891604) to 10:24:00 (312891844) >TOTAL_GT: 3.72 ksec >Day 336 is DEC 2 (UT). >GOODTIME: 10:06:00 (312977164) to 10:56:00 (312980164) > 11:34:00 (312982444) to 12:33:00 (312985984) > 13:09:00 (312988144) to 14:11:00 (312991864) > 14:48:00 (312994084) to 15:48:00 (312997684) > 16:26:00 (312999964) to 17:23:00 (313003384) > 18:04:00 (313005844) to 18:58:00 (313009084) > 19:42:00 (313011724) to 20:18:00 (313013884) >TOTAL_GT: 22.68 ksec >Day 337 is DEC 3 (UT). >GOODTIME: 04:55:00 (313044904) to 06:00:00 (313048804) > 06:29:00 (313050544) to 07:35:00 (313054504) > 08:04:00 (313056244) to 08:57:00 (313059424) >TOTAL_GT: 11.04 ksec >Day 337 is DEC 3 (UT). >GOODTIME: 11:13:00 (313067584) to 12:11:00 (313071064) > 12:48:00 (313073284) to 13:48:00 (313076884) > 14:25:00 (313079104) to 15:26:00 (313082764) > 16:03:00 (313084984) to 17:03:00 (313088584) >TOTAL_GT: 14.34 ksec >Day 338 is DEC 4 (UT). >GOODTIME: 03:00:00 (313124404) to 04:05:00 (313128304) > 04:34:00 (313130044) to 05:40:00 (313134004) > 06:09:00 (313135744) to 07:15:00 (313139704) >TOTAL_GT: 11.82 ksec >Day 338 is DEC 4 (UT). >GOODTIME: 07:43:00 (313141384) to 08:34:00 (313144444) > 09:18:00 (313147084) to 10:11:00 (313150264) > 10:53:00 (313152784) to 11:48:00 (313156084) >TOTAL_GT: 9.54 ksec From jop at astro.columbia.edu Mon Nov 24 13:43:29 2003 From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:43:29 -0500 (EST) Subject: (cba:news) cp dra... Message-ID: Thanks for those of you who forwarded the news of CP Dra's latest pop. I'm inclined to take a pass, though. We covered the March 2001 superoutburst pretty well, with Tonny leading the way. The star remains obscure and may well toss some surprises our way... but probably not through repeating the same kind of campaign. I'm more excited about those novalikes on our plate now. joe