See data at http://stupendous.rit.edu/tass/data/ds23/gsc_00445-01993.dat
Tom Droege:
tass 277.3044 +6.7872 I think I will report them in decimal degrees. Any one who cares can convert it. This is a nice smooth variable. It changed about .4 mag in 2 hours. If I had to guess, I would give it an 8 hour period, with possibly a .8 mag variation. It is found as a suspected variable in VizieR. I think this one is where you can look at it. I don't know, I never actually look through a telescope. ;^) My neck will no longer bend around enough to make it any fun. It is all I can do to sit straight up and stare at a terminal.
Michael Koppelman
Looks like this is GSC 00445-01993 at 18 29 13.016 +06 47 13.76 according to Tycho2. USNO A2 reports B=11.3 and R=9.1. Looks like a gooder! I think this is a little low in the east until 1am or so. Should be a great candidate in the coming months.
Patrick Wils
The star Tom mentions is NSV 10892 = GSC 0445-1993 = HD 170451 (B=9.97, V=9.44), a G-type star and also the ROSAT source 1RXS J182912.6+064717. It is situated in the open cluster NGC 6633, on which a number of papers have appeared in the past. Data about this cluster can be found at the WEBDA page http://obswww.unige.ch/webda/cgi-bin/ocl_page.cgi?cluster=ngc+6633 (look for the star 147). There is also a paper by Schutt (http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/cdsbib?1995BAAS...27Q1439S) about the detection of delta Scuti stars in this cluster (I don't have access to the paper myself), but the spectral type excludes the star from the delta Scuti class.
Michael Koppelman
I got some data on this last night. I was lucky to hit a minimum. Light curve is here: http://www.lolife.com/astronomy/gsc445-1993.jpg
Michael Koppelman
I set up a directory for this and added the raw data and a phase plot. I realize it is way premature to do a phase plot, but I wanted to see how my data mixed with the tass data. Using the Tycho2 mag for the comp star, they seem to match up perfectly. http://www.lolife.com/astronomy/gsc445-1993/ Please let me know if anyone else grabs data for this. It's nice and bright and well placed.