baavss workshop march 13 th 2010 observing programmes for the visual observer gary poyner
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BAAVSS Workshop
March 13th 2010
Observing Programmes for the Visual Observer
Gary Poyner
Observing programmes for the Visual Observer
Binocular Programme Priority List
ICCE
Recurrent Objects Programme
LTPMP
Other sources
BAAVSS programmes for Telescopes & Binoculars
Telescopic 236 stars, Binocular 120 stars, EB 75 stars
Star Con Range Type NSV No.
TAV 0216+48 And 9.5-<13.5 Mira?TASV1946+00 Aql 10.0-<16.0 Mira? NSV 24897TASV0626+34 Aur 9.8-11.9 ? NSV 16874CC Cam Cam 10.8-<14.3 ?V720 Cas Cas 12.4:-13.6: SR?TAV0033+53 Cas 10.3-11.0? GCAS NSV 15133NSV 14687 Cep 11.9-<14.0 ?TAV2034+61 Cep 9.6-11.2 ? NSV 25186TASV2204+59 Cep 10.1-12.5 SR? NSV 25835NSV 13806 Cyg 11.1-<16.0TAV1933+53 Cyg 10.3-12.0J0712+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 24346Q1992/076 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 starNSV 2249 Tau 10.5-<16.0 Mira?V335 Vul Vul 10.1-13.5Carbon Star
ICCE Programme – Identification, Characterisation, Correction of Erroneous GCVS entries
Q1992/076
NSV 14687
NSV 24897
NSV 10836
J0712+296
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
Recurrent Objects Programme
Long Term Polar Monitoring Programme
VSSC 129 September 2006
Advised by Dr. Boris Gaensicke
V884 Her QQ Vul
ST LMi
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)(BAA Deep Sky Section)
3C 66A 14.0-15.83C 273 12.4-13.23C 279 11.0-18.0W Com 13.5-<17.0RBL Lac 12.0-16.0Markarian 421 12.2-14.0Markarian 509 14.0-15.0NGC 1275 ? ?NGC 4151 10.8-12.7OJ+287 12.5-16.0S50716+71 12.0-15.0
NOAO
Skyhound
Mike & Debbie Maher
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
Other Sources…
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)
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