On 4/18/05, Michael Linnolt wrote:
> Our job as
> amateur observers is to monitor their brightness. This is not
> difficult. AAVSO has charts for almost every one, and those charts have
> the standard comparison stars magnitudes around the variable.
I spent about a week filing brightness estimates for the AAVSO for a
slowly dimming nova in Scorpius (not Delta, the one that got really
bright!) a couple of years ago. It was fun and easy. I used 10x50
binos. I felt like I was doing a tiny amount of real science.
Received on Mon Apr 18 17:01:33 2005