Monthly Archives: August 2014
V0446 Vul
The variability of this star was discovered by Lennart Dahlmark in a photographic patrol programme, using plates exposed from 1967 and onwards. It was announced in a publication in 2001.1 Two years later it got the official designation V446 Vul. … Continue reading
C/2014 E2 (Jacques)
I observed C/2014 E2 (Jacques) with 15×70 binoculars tonight. Magnitude was estimated to be 7.0, using the Sidgwick method and an AAVSO sequence of comparison stars for the nearby V0465 Cas, coma diameter 6′. The observation has been reported to … Continue reading
BRT queue
Four days later, and still no images from BRT. No big deal, but the queue seems to be rather long. Update 25 August: a week after registration, the first four images came through. Quite good tempo, I think. Update nr … Continue reading
Bradford Robotic Telescope
I like the BRT, when there’s no trailing the images are deep and I can measure down to the 16th magnitude or so. The major drawback is, I would say, that the telescope is severely oversubscribed. I’ve been off BRT … Continue reading
LD 323
LD 323 is one of the Lennart Dahlmark variables that so far has not made it into the GCVS namelists; and lacking an official name we will have to keep calling it LD 323 for some time. I have observed … Continue reading
