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Main Variable Stars Back - To Logbook

Monday, February 4, 2008
Today, we had a discussion on particle physics (about our book Tour of the Subatomic Zoo). Lasted about half the class. Now I'm going to be taking a look at the README and README Variable Stars documents that came off this cd that Dr. L brought me with information about the coude feed on variable stars. I'll see if I can understand what I'm reading. I guess if you're interested in reading what i'm reading you can take a look at the documents here. [|README.doc] [|README_VariableStars.doc]

Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Dr. L isn't here today. He sent an email about our projects and weather or not we will be able to enter into the NIRSEF. I answered both yes and no and gave him reasons for both.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
ALEX'S BIRTHDAY!! YAY!! :DDD HE'S 17!!

I read through the alert notice 368 on the AAVSO website! It's talking about the major outburst of the variable star EX Lup. I guess I might be able to do this for my project, but I'm not completely certain since it's not able to be observed after awhile! But if I do observe it they are asking for visual observations and photometric observations.

Break in thoughts...

inside joke: i hate mu........ muons! inside joke 2: what's up shortstuff? inside joke 3: I'm returning to dust! inside joke 4: ew.. why?? hi!!

Back to thoughts...

So, I decided to look through other alert notices from the AAVSO to see if there are any other interesting variable stars that I could possibly take a glance at... :) So here are a few!

Outburst of AQ CMi is calling for visual and CCD observations. AQ CMi is located at RA: 07 14 34.80, Dec: +08 48 06.0 (J2000). [|Chart]

So all the other alert notices are kind of far back in date, so I don't believe they are still needing information because the time has probably already passed for those observations to take place. I should see what else might be coming up, or find a variable star that the AAVSO wants more information on!

So I'm looking at the [|2007 AAVSO Bulletin]. I was looking at the W Psc variable star and i found a [|site] for it too!

Friday, February 8, 2008
I'm still looking at the [|2007 AAVSO Bulletin]. I'll be putting up variable stars that I can find some information about them online and maybe pick between all these stars to do for my final project.

TY Cas - some sites - [|pdf from AAVSO], [|Harvard Site]

I stopped looking at the bulletin and i'm basically just looking for a short period variable star that i could observe during one session with a few different magnutides.

UX UMa - [|AAVSO site]
 * AH Leo** (i like this one..) - [|AAVSO site]

Two pages with rr lyrae stars from the AAVSO website - [|RR Lyrae with Comparison Stars (CCD Observing)], [|RR Lyrae Stars with Charts]