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