a selection of articles and books we recommend concerning cataclysmic variables and photometric observation
below you will find some articles written by members of the CBA, the text for each of those articles is included in its entirety
- Cataclysmic Variable Stars: How and Why they Vary
Coel Hellier
Springer Praxis Books, United Kingdom
2001 - Cataclysmic Variable Stars
Brian Warner
Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
1995 - The Study of Variable Stars Using Small Telescopes
John Percy, Editor
Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
1986 - The Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing
Richard Berry and James Burnell
Willmann-Bell, United States
2003 - Variable Star Astronomy
American Association of Variable Star Observers
American Association of Variable Star Observers, United States
2010
- White Dwarfs: The Once and Future Suns
Virginia Trimble
Sky and Telescope
October 1986, Page 348 - Taking the Pulse of White Dwarfs
Edward Nather and Donald Winget
Sky and Telescope
April 1992, Page 374 - The Amazing Eleven-Minute Binary
Charles Bailyn
Griffith Observer
August 1988, Page 2 - The Optical and X-Ray Outbursts of Aquila X-1
Philip Charles
Sky and Telescope
March 1980, Page 188 - A Field Guide to Close Binary Stars
Virginia Trimble
Sky and Telescope
October 1984, Page 306 - Visual Observing of Variable Stars
Janet Mattei
Page 11
The Study of Variable Stars Using Small Telescopes
John Percy, Editor
Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
1986 - High-Speed Photometry of Cataclysmic Variables
Brian Warner and Edward Nather
Sky and Telescope
February 1972, Page 82 - More High-Speed Photometry of Cataclysmic Variables
Brian Warner
Sky and Telescope
November 1973, Page 298 - Photoelectric Observing Programs and Observations
Douglas Hall
Page 63
The Study of Variable Stars Using Small Telescopes
John Percy, Editor
Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
1986 - Acquisition, Reduction and Standardization of Photoelectric Observations
Edward Guinan, George McCook, and Joseph McMullin
Page 79
The Study of Variable Stars Using Small Telescopes
John Percy, Editor
Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
1986 - Cataclysmic Variable Stars
Ronald Webbink
American Scientist
May-June 1989, Page 248 - Accretion Disks in Interacting Binary Stars
John Cannizzo and Ronald Kaitchuck
Scientific American
January 1992, Page 92 - Cataclysmic Variable Stars: Historical Development
Brian Warner
Page 1
Cataclysmic Variable Stars
Brian Warner
Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
1995 - Dwarf-Nova Outbursts
Yoji Osaki
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
January 1996, Page 39 - The Mysterious SU UMa Stars
Philip Charles
Sky and Telescope
June 1990, Page 607 - Stars That Go Hump in the Night: The SU UMa Stars
Brian Warner
Page 367
Interacting Binaries
Peter Eggleton and James Pringle, Editors
NATO ASI Series
1985 - Amateur Astronomers and Cataclysmic Variables
Lasse Jensen, Gary Poyner, Paul Van Cauteren, and Tonny Vanmunster
European Southern Messenger
June 1995, Page 43 - Backyard Research on Cataclysmic Variables by a Consortium of Professional and Amateur Astronomers: DV UMa – A Case Study
Tonny Vanmunster
Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
June 2006, Page 132 - Running a Telescope with a Microcomputer
David Skillman
Sky and Telescope
January 1981, Page 71 - An Evening of CCD Astronomy
David Skillman
Sky and Telescope
May 1993, Page 83 - Our Cataclysmic-Variable Network
Joseph Patterson
Sky and Telescope
October 1988, Page 77 - Photometry in the Digital Age
Ronald Kaitchuck, Arne Henden, and Ryland Truax
CCD Astronomy
Fall 1994, Page 20 - An Ideal CCD System for Photometry
Lee Hawkins
CCD Astronomy
Spring 1996, Page 14 - What Can You Really Get From Your CCD Camera?
Paul Rybski
CCD Astronomy
Summer 1996, Page 17 - What Can You Really Get From Your CCD Camera?: Part II
Paul Rybski
CCD Astronomy
Fall 1996, Page 14 - UBVRI Filters for CCD Photometry
Michael Bessell
CCD Astronomy
Fall 1995, Page 20 - The Signal-to-Noise Connection
Michael Newberry
CCD Astronomy
Summer 1994, Page 34 - The Signal-to-Noise Connection: Part II
Michael Newberry
CCD Astronomy
Fall 1994, Page 12 - Pursuing the Ideal Flat Field
Michael Newberry
CCD Astronomy
Winter 1996, Page 18 - Special Considerations for Flat Fielding
Frederick Chromey
CCD Astronomy
Fall 1996, Page 18 - Dark Frames
Michael Newberry
CCD Astronomy
Summer 1995, Page 12
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