Re: Newbie: observation request?

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

I can't speak for the group but...

You are certainly not off topic.  I'd say "dead on target".  We (yes,
me too) get side tracked and talk about stuff like file names.  It's
you that has the priorites right  The troble is you are here to early
by only a few months.  It would be blind luck it there was data you
could use.  Stick around and there will be much more then you _can_
use.  I'm sure of it.  And I'll bet, quite a few more stars with yet
undiscoved periodic "effects".  The first batch of TASS Mark IV cameras
are still trying to get out the door.  You picked a good time to join
this list.  Stuff is going to happen. 

--- Aaron Price <aaronp@shore.net> wrote:
> 
>  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
> 
> 


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