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Newbie: observation request?




 Hi, I'm new to TASS and trying to get up to speed. I've spent much time
at the web site over the past few weeks and have read the last 4 months in
the archive of this group. I hope I'm not bothering anyone with this
request.
 I'm looking for observations of RR CrB, a red semiregular with some very
short pulsation periods. The main period is around 60 days, but Hipparcos
detected 2 shorter periods. One is 4 days with a .13mag amplitude and the
other is 8 days with .08mag amplitude. A call was issued by some
astronomers a year or two ago for photometry on one of these objects to
try and determine the cause of this microvariability (it is believed these
short periods are overtones).
 I cannot perform observations of this object because of limitations in my
field of view where I live. I tried phasing together 14 days of
observations spread out but that isn't enough. What I really need is 4-5
days of continuous coverage. I don't believe the new data set covers this
object, but maybe someone with a working TASS camera and some spare time
(hah) could help out?
 The object is around mag 8 located at 15h 41m 26.1s and +38:33:28. I can
provide much more info to anyone interested, including a paper I wrote on
this object for a class. I would like to publish the results of this data
in a professional journal and have lined up a couple of professionals to
advise me on the analysis and math. Anyone who can help will, of course,
be listed as a co-author.
 Thanks and I hope this wasn't off topic for the list.

Aaron