BAAVSS Workshop

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Observing Programmes for the Visual
Observer Gary Poyner

• BAAVSS Workshop
• March 13th 2010

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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

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ICCE Programme Identification,
Characterisation, Correction of Erroneous GCVS
entries
Star Con Range Type NSV No. TAV
021648 And 9.5-lt13.5 Mira? TASV194600 Aql 10.0-
lt16.0 Mira? NSV 24897 TASV062634 Aur 9.8-11.9 ?
NSV 16874 CC Cam Cam 10.8-lt14.3 ? V720
Cas Cas 12.4-13.6 SR? TAV003353 Cas 10.3-11.0?
GCAS NSV 15133 NSV 14687 Cep 11.9-lt14.0 ? TAV2034
61 Cep 9.6-11.2 ? NSV 25186 TASV220459 Cep 10.1
-12.5 SR? NSV 25835 NSV 13806 Cyg 11.1-lt16.0 TAV1
93353 Cyg 10.3-12.0 J0712296 Gem 11.3-13.8 LB?
TAV071417 Gem 10.5-12.2 SR? NSV
10836 Her 11.0-lt15.0 Mira? TASV181240 Her 9.5-10.
3 360d? NSV 24346 Q1992/076 Her 11.2-lt16.0 Mira?
V2303 Oph Oph 10.8-lt16.0 Mira? TAV055906 Ori 10.9
-12.9 SRa? TAV034638 Per 10.3-12.2 Carbon
star NSV 2249 Tau 10.5-lt16.0 Mira? V335
Vul Vul 10.1-13.5 Carbon Star
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Q1992/076
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NSV 14687
NSV 10836
NSV 24897
J0712296
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Recurrent Objects Programme

• Set up in the 1980s
• 78 objects - all CVs
• Outburst period gt1 year
• Outburst magnitudes all brighter than 15.0
• Reviewed once per year

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Recurrent Objects Programme
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Long Term Polar Monitoring Programme
VSSC 129 September 2006 Advised by Dr. Boris
Gaensicke
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V884 Her
QQ Vul
ST LMi
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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-lt17.0R 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 OJ287 12.5-16.0 S5071671 12.0-15
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NOAO
Mike Debbie Maher
Skyhound
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Other Sources
SNOBS Significant or Noteworthy Outbursts NMOs
Need More Observations

• AAVSO/CVnet list
• 104 objects all CVs
• Very similar to the ROP, but more Southerly
  objects included
• http//www.aavso.org/publications/newsflash/s
  nobs.txt
• NMOs 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/ne
  edy09.txt

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CV monitoring from the Hamburg Quasar Survey
Boris Gaensicke
http//deneb.astro.warwick.ac.uk/phsdaj/HQS_Public
/HQS_Public.html
V455 And (HS23313905)
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• Check out various catalogues and surveys 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/g
  cvs/gcvs/new.htm
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  http//www.sdss.org/
• IRAS - Infrared Astronomical Satellite
  http//irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/IRASdocs/iras.html

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