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Re: (cba:news) (cba:chat) V1251 Cygni Prelim results (Joe Patterson) [2008-10-23T13:12:03Z]


From my inspection, I'd guess that Don's report is the first sign of the just-developed superhumps. The Eastern USA doesn't get many firsts in observational astronomy! True to form, V1251 Cyg appears slow off the mark. (Recent data by Bob Koff and Tom Krajci showed only a few waves of uncertain parentage.) So I guess V1251 is more of a long-distance runner. Anyway, it should start to produce handsome light curves right about now, or very soon.

joe



dcollins wrote:
A 2.5 hour run at Warren Wilson College in N. Carolina for V1251 shows about 0.1 mag P-P oscillation with about a 0.75 day period. See my prelim results at:
http://www.warren-wilson.edu/%7Ephysics/CVResults/V1251Cyg/V1251Cyg.html

Don