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

2 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

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4 StarConRangeTypeNSV No. TAV 0216+48And9.5-<13.5Mira? TASV1946+00Aql10.0-<16.0Mira?NSV 24897 TASV0626+34Aur9.8-11.9?NSV 16874 CC CamCam10.8-<14.3? V720 CasCas12.4:-13.6:SR? TAV0033+53Cas10.3-11.0?GCASNSV 15133 NSV 14687Cep11.9-<14.0? TAV2034+61Cep9.6-11.2?NSV 25186 TASV2204+59Cep10.1-12.5SR?NSV 25835 NSV 13806Cyg11.1-<16.0 TAV1933+53Cyg10.3-12.0 J0712+296Gem11.3-13.8LB? TAV0714+17Gem10.5-12.2SR? NSV 10836Her11.0-<15.0Mira? TASV1812+40Her9.5-10.3360d?NSV 24346 Q1992/076Her11.2-<16.0Mira? V2303 OphOph10.8-<16.0Mira? TAV0559+06Ori10.9-12.9SRa? TAV0346+38Per10.3-12.2Carbon star NSV 2249Tau10.5-<16.0Mira? V335 VulVul10.1-13.5Carbon Star ICCE Programme – Identification, Characterisation, Correction of Erroneous GCVS entries

5 Q1992/076

6 NSV 14687 NSV 24897 NSV 10836 J0712+296

7 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

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9 Recurrent Objects Programme

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

11 V884 HerQQ Vul ST LMi

12 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) (BAA Deep Sky Section) 3C 66A14.0-15.8 3C 27312.4-13.2 3C 27911.0-18.0 W Com13.5-<17.0R BL Lac12.0-16.0 Markarian 42112.2-14.0 Markarian 50914.0-15.0 NGC 1275 ? ? NGC 415110.8-12.7 OJ+28712.5-16.0 S50716+7112.0-15.0 NOAO Skyhound Mike & Debbie Maher

13 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…

14 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)

15 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 www.tass-survey.org/tass/tass.shtml ASAS – All Sky Automated Survey www.astrouw.edu.pl/asas/www.astrouw.edu.pl/asas/ NSV – New catalogue of Suspected Variables www.sai.msu.su/groups/cluster/gcvs/gcvs/new.htm www.sai.msu.su/groups/cluster/gcvs/gcvs/new.htm Sloan Digital Sky Survey http://www.sdss.org/http://www.sdss.org/ IRAS - Infrared Astronomical Satellite http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/IRASdocs/iras.html http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/IRASdocs/iras.html IRAS 21443+4329

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