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BAAVSS Workshop March 13 th 2010

Observing Programmes for the Visual Observer Gary Poyner. BAAVSS Workshop March 13 th 2010. Observing programmes for the Visual Observer. BAAVSS programmes for Telescopes & Binoculars Telescopic 236 stars, Binocular 120 stars, EB 75 stars. Binocular Programme Priority List ICCE

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BAAVSS Workshop March 13 th 2010

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  1. Observing Programmes for the Visual Observer Gary Poyner BAAVSS Workshop March 13th 2010

  2. Observing programmes for the Visual Observer • BAAVSS programmes for Telescopes & Binoculars • Telescopic 236 stars, Binocular 120 stars, EB 75 stars • Binocular Programme Priority List • ICCE • Recurrent Objects Programme • LTPMP • Other sources

  3. ICCE Programme – Identification, Characterisation, Correction of Erroneous GCVS entries Star Con Range Type NSV No. TAV 0216+48 And 9.5-<13.5 Mira? TASV1946+00 Aql 10.0-<16.0 Mira? NSV 24897 TASV0626+34 Aur 9.8-11.9 ? NSV 16874 CC Cam Cam 10.8-<14.3 ? V720 Cas Cas 12.4:-13.6: SR? TAV0033+53 Cas 10.3-11.0? GCAS NSV 15133 NSV 14687 Cep 11.9-<14.0 ? TAV2034+61 Cep 9.6-11.2 ? NSV 25186 TASV2204+59 Cep 10.1-12.5 SR? NSV 25835 NSV 13806 Cyg 11.1-<16.0 TAV1933+53 Cyg 10.3-12.0 J0712+296 Gem 11.3-13.8 LB? TAV0714+17 Gem 10.5-12.2 SR? NSV 10836 Her 11.0-<15.0 Mira? TASV1812+40 Her 9.5-10.3 360d? NSV 24346 Q1992/076 Her 11.2-<16.0 Mira? V2303 Oph Oph 10.8-<16.0 Mira? TAV0559+06 Ori 10.9-12.9 SRa? TAV0346+38 Per 10.3-12.2 Carbon star NSV 2249 Tau 10.5-<16.0 Mira? V335 Vul Vul 10.1-13.5 Carbon Star

  4. Q1992/076

  5. NSV 14687 NSV 10836 NSV 24897 J0712+296

  6. Recurrent Objects Programme • Set up in the 1980’s • 78 objects - all CV’s • Outburst period >1 year • Outburst magnitudes – all brighter than 15.0 • Reviewed ~ once per year

  7. Recurrent Objects Programme

  8. Long Term Polar Monitoring Programme VSSC 129 September 2006 Advised by Dr. Boris Gaensicke

  9. V884 Her QQ Vul ST LMi

  10. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) (BAA Deep Sky Section) 3C 66A 14.0-15.8 3C 273 12.4-13.2 3C 279 11.0-18.0 W Com 13.5-<17.0R BL Lac 12.0-16.0 Markarian 421 12.2-14.0 Markarian 509 14.0-15.0 NGC 1275 ? ? NGC 4151 10.8-12.7 OJ+287 12.5-16.0 S50716+71 12.0-15.0 NOAO Mike & Debbie Maher Skyhound

  11. Other Sources… SNOBS – Significant or Noteworthy Outbursts NMO’s – Need More Observations • AAVSO/CVnet list • 104 objects – all CV’s • Very similar to the ROP, but more Southerly objects included • http://www.aavso.org/publications/newsflash/snobs.txt • NMO’s Mira stars… • In need of more observations • Urgently in need of more observations • Very urgently in need of more observations • http://www.aavso.org/publications/bulletin/needy09.txt

  12. CV monitoring from the Hamburg Quasar Survey – Boris Gaensicke http://deneb.astro.warwick.ac.uk/phsdaj/HQS_Public/HQS_Public.html V455 And (HS2331+3905)

  13. Check out various catalogues and survey’s on the Internet for possible Variables. • Plenty to find here... • TASS – The Amateur Sky Survey www.tass-survey.org/tass/tass.shtml • ASAS – All Sky Automated Survey www.astrouw.edu.pl/asas/ • NSV – New catalogue of Suspected Variables www.sai.msu.su/groups/cluster/gcvs/gcvs/new.htm • Sloan Digital Sky Survey http://www.sdss.org/ • IRAS - Infrared Astronomical Satellite http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/IRASdocs/iras.html IRAS 21443+4329

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